hi guys, i have a quesion about directory
hi guys, i have a quesion about directory
Can anybody tell what files are stored in /home/{user}/tmp/ directory? Is it safe to delete them? For all, except one of user this directory is empty. And this one user has 1.7 million files there and i think the number of files is growing very fast. I am trying to delete the files and it takes ages. I am waiting already half an hour to finish execution of command rm tmp/*.
What could be the reason of so many files in this directory?
What could be the reason of so many files in this directory?
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Re: hi guys, i have a quesion about directory
home/user/tmp is the /tmp storage for apps hosted under that user. If you have millions of files there, this means your application is leaking /not flushing session files and/or garbage collector collector for PHP is not working.
May old apps are written poorly. Skurudo already mentioned the magic cron jobs for this to be run daily once so as to keep your tmp storage clean.
as root add this crontab and it will clean all session files. If you have filenames other than sess* then please adjust the command accordingly
crontab -e
0 2 */2 * * find /home/*/tmp -type f -name 'sess_*' -ctime +2 -delete >/dev/null 2>&1
May old apps are written poorly. Skurudo already mentioned the magic cron jobs for this to be run daily once so as to keep your tmp storage clean.
as root add this crontab and it will clean all session files. If you have filenames other than sess* then please adjust the command accordingly
crontab -e
0 2 */2 * * find /home/*/tmp -type f -name 'sess_*' -ctime +2 -delete >/dev/null 2>&1