[Linux-aus] linux.conf.au

[Andrew Pollock]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:12:11AM +1030, David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> > > Time for a DSL uberkludge:
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > root# crontab -l
> > > 0 * * * * rm -rf /tmp/*
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > :P
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> Maybe:
> 
> PSEUDO CODE
> 
> lsof /tmp/*
> kill -HUP PID
> kill -SIGTEM PID
> rm -rf /tmp/*
> 
> Although that is truly drastic :)

Yes, given the box exists to run UML instances for other services, and those
services are critical.

FWIW, disk isn't an issue, so I've grown /tmp to be 1.5Gb. I suspect the
problems were related to recently growing the amount of RAM available to the
UML instances, with flow on effects to the size of temp files created.

regards

Andrew