Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>]

Le jeudi 29 mars 2012 à 08:01 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Le mercredi 28 mars 2012, à 21:10 +0200, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
> > To get something out of the way: if you run your DESKTOP system more than a 
> > week or two, expect /tmp to grow BIG. 2 GB is nothing in my experience. 
> > Thumbnailers sometimes leave data behind and so do things like flash, web 
> > browsers, inkscape, transcoding apps, CD Burners, some compiles ... This 
> > might be due to apps misbehaving but we're not Fedora, we handle the world 
> > as it is - not as it should be.
>
> For reference, 2GB is very very far away from my experience (after 20
> days of uptime). It might be worth investigating why it's so big for
> you -- and we can help fix the broken apps like thumbnailers.

I share this feeling, I currently have 12MB, with 4MB because of me. The
bigest consumer of /tmp is temporary files downloaded by Firefox for
external files, like PDF (Evince).

> Also, by default, we clean files in /tmp that are older than 10 days. It
> might help with the switch to tmpfs.

Yes.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE

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