On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 09:50:49PM +0000, John Perry wrote: > Hello! > > On one of my machines, /tmp has its own partition (apparently), about 2G. > Today dvips, in its quest to satisfy latex-preview, filled /tmp completely, > but without reporting any error. I discovered it only because another program > complained. > > This raises two questions: > > 1) Is it odd that dvips should generate 2G worth of data? The file itself > isn't anywhere near that large.
Yes this is odd, but believable (I have seen a similar bug). What is taking the space might be an infinite loop in the log. Are you able to post a reproducible example so we can see if we can reproduce it? We would like to make sure that this bug gets fixed, even if it sounds likely that it is not a LyX bug. > 2) Is there some what to get dvips to build these files somewhere else? > Digging through the code, I find that mkstemp creates the directory, using a > Python library dedicated to temporary files. I know a little Python, but not > enough to know whether I can change a Python setting to create temp files > somewhere else. Well the first thing to try would be to set LyX's temporary directory to something else. see Tools > Preferences > Paths. Does that help? Scott
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