Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[eddie <eddie.howson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 31 May 2004 23:10, Dylan wrote:
> On Friday 28 May 2004 08:11 am, eddie wrote:
> > This morning I couldn't log in (KDE), but could log in at console.
> > After a good deal of searching and experimentation I discovered that
> > my /tmp had run out of space, and that my /tmp/kde-eddie was 689MB!
> > Can anyone say why kde-eddie should have grown to that size?  How can
> > I prevent a reoccurrence? By removing kde-eddie I can log in now and
> > everything seem fine (so far). Any thoughts, anyone?
>
> Have you had a crash while working on a large file? Also, there are
> session logs in there which can get big sometimes, especially if you
> don't clean out /tmp very often. You can set lifetimes on the contents
> in yast>system>sysconfig - I have mine emptied at boot and have never
> yet had a problem, although it depends how you use it of course so YMMV
>
> Dylan
>

Yes, I realise now that I should have looked at the contents before deleting 
it.  My guess is, that it was a leftover iso.  Setting a lifetime on the 
contents sounds like a good idea.  Thanks for the responses.

Eddie