Joachim Schrod wrote:
C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Starting as abnormal directory my /tmp grows fast until it was again some 5017600 bytes. When I want to look into this directory with midnight commander it takes its time to open the directory and what I found that apart from some other directories, there where 124830 alsa-dmix-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx files all o byte. These files only took 11 bytes together but I suppose that just the administration of 124830 files takes a lot of place. This alsa-dmix zero file is made sometimes twenty or more times in a minute.
Could somebody explain what is happening?
I don't know what "fast growing" is? Within a day, or over several days? If it's the latter, /tmp is probably not cleaned up.
Then, edit /etc/sysconfig/cron and set MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP to clean up /tmp in regular intervals. E.g., set it to 7 or 14.
Check /var/tmp if it fills up as well. If yes, set MAX_DAYS_IN_LONG_TMP and LONG_TMP_DIRS_TO_CLEAR, too.
If your /tmp fills up within one day, you must search for the audio-related application that creates these many files. Then somebody else must help you, I don't do much audio on my workstation.
Joachim
Ooops, sorry Joachim I replied to your message and not to the original (which I thought I had kept) :-( . And thanks for the above because it actually gives what is needed to make the cleanup automatic. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com