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[Discuss] pulse files in /tmp on RHEL 6



I know how to remove them. It is just a pain when they get up into the
millions.

On 03/11/2015 03:18 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Argument list too long? Tri find(1):
>
>     find /tmp -type d -name pulse\* -mtime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
>
> If a granularity of a day is too large:
>
>     touch -d '5 minutes ago' foo && \
>     find /tmp -type d -name pulse\* -newer foo -print0 | xargs -0 rm
> -rf && \
>     rm -f foo
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org
> <mailto:gaf at blu.org>> wrote:
>
>     I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer online yet.
>
>     The /tmp directory fills up with many pulse directories such as
>     'pulse-zZRmb3xqyy69'
>
>     I have removed all pulseadio packages except
>     pulseaudio-gdm-hooks.x86_64
>     0:0.9.21-17.el6 that is needed for gdm, but the directories are still
>     being created.
>
>     The problem is that while these directories are empty, they take up an
>     inode slot and eventually cause file system full messages. They
>     are hard
>     to remove because when there are too many of them they cannot be
>     removed
>     from the command line directory. I just do a remove of /tmp, and
>     recreate /tmp
>
>     it tends to occur for users logged in whether they come in from
>     ssh, or
>     from VNC when a vnc server is running for a specific user. (I leave a
>     vncserver up for each member of the team). In the 20 minutes since I
>     cleaned them all out there are over 3000 with only 10 vncservers
>     running
>     and only 1 active user, me
>
>     I could set up a daily cron just to remove these directories but
>     that is
>     only a workaround
>
>
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