You'd do better cleaning it when starting up the processes. You're not guaranteed to shutdown cleanly.
Eric Reitmaier wrote: > I think it should be cleaned when shutting down the processes. > > 2009/4/21 Andras Barna <andras.barna at gmail.com>: >> to fill up the memory/swap? >> >> :/var/tmp$ du -sh >> 609M . >> :/var/tmp$ >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at sun.com> >> wrote: >>> Eric Reitmaier wrote: >>>> Why isn't /var/tmp cleaned up properly? >>>> >>>> I see a lot of gvfs-<username>-.... directories and virtual-<username>. >>>> ... , starting from the I installed opensolaris. >>>> >>>> Every day I startup in the morning and shutdown the laptop in the evening. >>>> >>>> Running bld snv_111. >>> /var/tmp is persistent across reboots. >>> >>> What we need to do is change the default TMPDIR on OpenSolaris to be /tmp. >>> >>> - Bart >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance >>> barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts >>> "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." >>> _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> >> >> >> -- >> Andy >> http://blog.sartek.net >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -- Mike Ramchand Principal Field Technologist Systems Practice Sun Microsystems (UK) Tel: +44 125 2421091, Ext: (70)21091, Mob: +44 780 1179593 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3253 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090421/27909ec2/attachment.bin>
