On 23/06/14 17:15, C wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Basil Chupin
wrote: Thanks for the advice everyone. I've cleaned up the /tmp and it seems to be less out of control now. I still have to poke about in my /usr/lib and see what's lurking there that I'm not using and I could clear out (using zypper of course). I'm back to +/-2 to 3 GB of my usual typical install size. That's a bit more... comfortable :-)
Well, doing what Cristian suggested has decreased my /tmp from 33GB down to 612Kb, and /var/tmp is now only 209MB from (?), ie I didn't take a note of (but it was 'really, really big', I am sure :-D ). I'm wondering.. what changed. In previous releases, I never had to bother with the size of /tmp. It managed itself quite nicely and didn't grow out of control. I'm seeing my /tmp slowly grow again since cleaning it (I didn't set up a cron.. i just cleaned it and have been "watching" it since cleaning). With Basil's /tmp being 33GB and mine 4GB befor a tidy-up... I'm wondering... is some app not behaving nicely here?
When I poked in my /tmp I did notice that Steam has dropped a lot of debris in there that was removed in the cleanup... but it wasn't the only one.
C.
I have no knowledge of anything to do with this 'cleaning up' of /tmp except that long time ago one could set 'MAX Days' in some control file or other (it's in my notebook somewhere, I know) but I am wondering if what Cristian suggested is at the "bottom" of this? Cristian suggested to insert lines d /tmp 1777 root root 10d d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d in /etc/tmpfiles.d/localtmp.conf -- except that 'localtmp.conf' does not exist, at least not on my system. I had to use nano to manually create this *conf file with those lines. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.1-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org