[14126] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7U: /tmp + evil programs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason M. Sachs)
Thu Jan 18 14:27:37 1996
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:27:29 EST
From: "Jason M. Sachs" <nosaj@MIT.EDU>
System name: m38-370-18
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7U (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
Hello. Acrobat seems to be hogging evil amounts of disk space.
The root partition on this Sun is now filled:
/tmp% df /tmp
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 30783 27631 82 100% /
I am currently running Netscape + Adobe Acrobat; when I quit the
programs, space was freed up again (to about 50% capacity), and when I
run Netscape it's still ok but when I look at a .pdf file using
Acrobat it fills up again.
Someone online recommended setting TMPDIR to /usr/tmp but I think netscape
and acrobat ignore it.
The odd thing is that the huge chunk of disk space used up isn't in
/tmp itself, which right now is only using 569K; I can't tell where the
extra 13M of junk showed up.
How come /tmp isn't located on /var like it is on the Decstations?
--Jason
