What files in user tmp directory?

[xguntis]

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?

[tjebbeke]

If you are using the hosting template the dirs are used for sessions and as tmp upload dir.


https://github.com/serghey-rodin/vesta/ ... osting.tpl

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php_admin_value upload_tmp_dir %home%/%user%/tmp
php_admin_value session.save_path %home%/%user%/tmp

[xguntis]

thanks for reply

if they are used for sessions - should the quantity of files only increase or also decrease? I can see it is always increasing. If so, they soon will consume all the inodes.

=== edit ===

After some googling i concluded that garbage collector for some reason was not working as expected. It just could not be that there are millions of unexpired sessions on a not so busy site. I deleted all the files manually and will keep an eye on that dir if it still is only growing.
re:
https://www.dev-metal.com/how-the-php-s ... lly-works/

[plutocrat]

skurudo's suggestion in this thread seems sensible
viewtopic.php?t=13209

.. put this command in a weekly cronjob to keep them at bay

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find /home/*/tmp -type f -name 'sess_*' -ctime +5 -delete

[mehargags]

skurudo's suggestion in this thread seems sensible
viewtopic.php?t=13209

.. put this command in a weekly cronjob to keep them at bay

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find /home/*/tmp -type f -name 'sess_*' -ctime +5 -delete

Yes Skurudo's suggestion works good. I usually setup a DAILY cron for root to clean all ../tmp sess* files older than 2 days. This helps to keep it clean

[plutocrat]

I am waiting already half an hour to finish execution of command rm tmp/*.

You could try

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ls -1 -f | xargs rm

That works a lot quicker.