On 23/02/15 18:31, Per Jessen wrote:
Has anyone actually looked at what it is _what_ is filling up {/var}/tmp ?
I've not had time since starting this topic to come back to it and things might remain that way for another couple of days, but what I have just discovered is what is responsible for 98% of all the data consumption in my /tmp: it's Dolphin. My /tmp contains all sorts, anything dating from the system installation over a year ago: gpg-xxxxxx folders, empty plugtmp-x folders, some SpiderOak stuff, about a dozen systemd-private-xxxxxx folders but those only consuming 112kb in total, lots of Clementine art jpg files, clipboard cache, attachments from Thunderbird and a few downloaded items from Firefox opened with Okular or perhaps other programs. But, the vast majority is contained within 184 folders named dolphinxxxxxx inside the kde-<username> subfolder. About two thirds of these are empty, whilst of the remainder, it's just the entire cached contents of various directories, both those permanently on my system and others from removable devices such as my dumbphone when connected via USB Mass Storage. Of the 5.0GB /tmp currently consumes, 4.9GB is this. /var/tmp is more moderate, currently at 756MB, most of the bytes being within the kdecache-<username> folders. A couple of plasma_theme_xxx.kcache files take up the majority. So there are two issues from my own perspective: 1. Why is Dolphin caching all this stuff forever, and is there a setting that governs this or a misconfiguration somewhere? (Note: Though Nepomuk Semantic Desktop is enabled, I have file indexing turned off.) 2. Whilst Dolphin accounts for 98% of the actual data size, there's still thousands of files and folders from elsewhere being held in temp and never being cleaned. Well, perhaps some stuff is being cleaned, that I've yet to find out. I'll have to look into the previous suggestions for cleaning temp when I get a bit more time. Thanks for the replies thus far. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org