On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, David Golden wrote:
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:31 AM, M W487<[email protected]> wrote:
Can someone tell me what are the best ways to avoid or correct
excessive build up?
Brush and floss daily? :-)
In your CPAN config settings, set build_cache and scan_cache.
In CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, I flush the cache manually as well every so
many distributions. perhaps minismoke box does not?
p...@zwei:~$ du -sh work/*/ 2> /dev/null
8.8G work/cpan_blead/
11G work/cpan_maint-5.10/
417G work/cpan_maint-5.8/
You can get quite the plaque while smoking. I ran my 1TB drive out of
space one time.
Although in my case that 417GB is from the "CPAN-Reporter-??-???????"
temporary files, many of which exceed 100MB each (5 over 2GB) and have
dates in the one to two week old range.
--
George Greer
