Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:18:50 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Dmitry Yakovlev <yakovlev@ns.nonel.pu.ru> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /tmp space Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110311216330.17249-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200110311137.OAA09243@ns.nonel.pu.ru>
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On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Dmitry Yakovlev wrote: > Where pipes stored - in memory or in disk? memory > How I can avoid of partition overflow? What is your /tmp? Possibilities: 1. swap-backed /tmp (useful). Use of swap hits free space in /tmp 2. a fairly traditional practice of creating a /tmp file, and unlinking it immediately (while holding a file open on it). temp files are thus cleaned up automatically when the program exits. fstat /tmp to find the latter. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Not as randy or clumsom as a blaster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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