On August 20, 2002 09:30 am, John Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 10:53, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all... > > > > > > rpmdrake fills /var/tmp (or /usr/tmp, in my box are symlinked), with > > > temporary files not removed: > > > > i could not reproduce by starting rpmdrake, searching for frozen, > > installing frozen-bubble, nor by sorting by update availability > > and installing 19 updated packages. > > > > any method to reproduce? > > > > -- > > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ > > I'm seeing the same problem.Initially caused my root partition to run > out of space. I had to created a symlink between /var/tmp and /usr/tmp > to get around this problem. > > Here's a snapshot of my /usr/tmp directory. Notice the timestamps which > represents the various times I ran rpmdrake: > > >Snip<<
I'm still getting the rpm.tmp files practically for every downloaded package via grpmi. I just checked my var/temp when I came across the above postings and found that I had over 700 tmp files for a total of 1.2 GB of disk space. I flushed the directory and began some updates while monitoring the var/tmp folder. Practically every package that grpmi downloads generates a tmp file which doesn't ever get cleaned out. Watching the var/cache/urpmi folder shows downoaded packages appearing and get cleaned away properly. During the upgrades, after download but before installation, I can clear out the var/tmp directory with no ill side effects. I have been running rpmdrake from konsole because as I've mentioned in a previous post when I run from drakconf my CPU cycles and memory begin to overload quite quickly. I don't appear to have these problems while running rpmdrake, just the constant creation of the tmp files.
