On 8/20/2010 1:40 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote:
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 have a cronjob that removes anything in /tmp and in /scratch, which not everybody uses, that's older than a week old. I determined this 1 week old policy by asking my users what the maximum length of any of their jobs could be. For some people this might be longer, and for some it might be shorter. Also, since an open file isn't actually removed, you probably can't damage things if you guess wrong, although the file might not be visible in a directory listing.
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.
Right. I don't think this is a good idea for scratch space for the reasons you mention. It does make sense for things like compilers and other programs that create very transient and small files. Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforr...@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ 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
