On 19/03/2020 16:59, Philip Yarra wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've apparently run into this: 
> https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Sun%20Microsystems/1957372_1.html issue 
> - /tmp space being chewed up by 20+ GB of Pulse audio shmem files that 
> haven't been cleaned up. Gah! I can't access the Oracle article (no 
> support contract that I know of) but just wondering if anyone on this 
> list knows what they recommend to deal with it?
> 
> I was going to set up a cron job to do
> find /tmp/.SHMDpulse-shm-* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
> every evening... but open to suggestions on what Oracle might mean by:
> 
> "This document explains how to delete /tmp/.SHMDpulse-shm-* file safely, 
> how to change the size or how to prevent
> the file creation."
> 
A quick squizz at "man pulse-daemon.conf" leads to:
enable-shm=
   Enable  data  transfer  via  POSIX  shared memory.  Takes a boolean
   argument, defaults to yes.  The --disable-shm command line argument
   takes precedence.

        Cheers,
                Gary    B-)


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