What's the typical protocol about the cleanup of /tmp folders? Do people clean them on each reboot or at intervals with a cron (sounds a bad idea). I was always under the impression that a reboot cleans them but apparantly not on my CentOS distro, by default.
I was burnt earlier today when ompi-ps acted erratically and I diagnosed it to be caused by stale state information in the /tmp folder. The remnant of some old dead jobs that had somehow crashed. One other option that I've seen mentioned is mounting /tmp on a tmpfs. Is that a good idea? The risk of using up too much RAM if a program gets out of hand writing to /tmp. On the other hand compute-nodes can go a long time without any reboots; so a more frequent cleanup cycle on /tmp might be desirable? I suppose most programs ought to cleanup behind them on /tmp but then again there are bound to be bad apples. Any comments? -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
