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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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