Re: SRTxxx: the trouble with Tribbles?

william@carsinfo.com (William Harris) wrote: > >But (assuming I'm reading his message correctly), if /tmp is getting filled >up, that would seem to indicate the files are't getting cleaned up properly - >which I think would cause problems no matter where the things are directed to. Not necessarily. /tmp is usually pretty limited and it may just be that every few days there are enough simultaneous large requests (Or one really big one) that the /tmp space fills up. A casual observer might think, "Darn. Those stupid /tmp files have gotten out of hand again." when several batches of files have come and gone over that period of time. I can blow out my /tmp space with a one page WordPerfect mail merge given enough addresses in my merge list. carlos Currently on hiatus from unemployment. ---------------------- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com

On Tue, 23 May 2000 14:07:36 -0700, Carlos Benjamin <benj@linuxstart.com> spouted: >Not necessarily. /tmp is usually pretty limited and it may just be that every few days there are enough simultaneous large requests (Or one really big one) that the /tmp space fills up. A casual observer might think, "Darn. Those stupid /tmp files have gotten out of hand again." when several batches of files have come and gone over that period of time. Well looking at the dates, some of them are several days old. I find it hard to believe that a sort would take that long, even on an Ultra 2 ;) We seem to have two problems: (1) it's not cleaning up after itself, and (2) it isn't directing sort work files into the tempdbs even though DBSPACETEMP is defined. I'll take this up with Tech Support; thanks for all your helpful comments.