[cfarm-users] gcc110 nearly out of disk space in /tmp/ (94% full, 115MB free)

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 10:04, Tomas Härdin via cfarm-users
<cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>
> ons 2019-03-27 klockan 09:01 +0100 skrev Martin Guy via cfarm-users:
> > They probably didn't even know that their work had filled /tmp so
> > thanks for making this known.
> >
> > To make this less likely to happen in future (or, at least, be
> > self-repairing!) an admin could add
> >
> > find /tmp -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
> > find /tmp/* -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
> >
> > in a cron job.
>
> I'd just like to add that leaving garbage in /tmp is a recurring
> problem with Python things in general, especially pip. So it isn't so
> strange that few people notice it

Or you could take the opposite view, that since python things leave so
much garbage in /tmp you should be more alert to it on systems you
share with other users.