On Thursday 29 March 2012 08:01:32 Vincent Untz wrote:
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.
True, we should fix things. But as Ruediger said, we have to watch peaks, not the average state. My current tmp is only 512 K (I did some cleaning up yesterday).
Also, by default, we clean files in /tmp that are older than 10 days. It might help with the switch to tmpfs.
That is imho a very sensible thing to do, yes. And will probably help. Again, I suggest to let Fedora, Debian and others figure out what bugs this causes - and subject our users to it in another 8 or 16 months :D
Cheers,
Vincent