On Thursday 29 March 2012, Frederic Crozat wrote:
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).
BTW you have to watch the peaks rather than a state at random time. Just one example: Open a large 'zipped text file using less (lessopen.sh) and see what happens in /tmp.
Also, by default, we clean files in /tmp that are older than 10 days. It might help with the switch to tmpfs.
This major change has never been announced or documented for 12.1. The behavior is different on systemd and sysvinit systems. I'd call it a bug allthough 10 days may be a good default. cu, Rudi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org