hi anuerin.

thanks again for your feedback!  :)



At 09:32 01/12/11 -0500, you wrote:

>hi,
>
>be glad to contribute something ;-).
>
>if you look at the mandrake control center->boot->boot config->Advanced , 
>there is a checkbox (sticky push button box? ;-) that should clean tmp at 
>each boot but for some reason it doesnt work here. it is not recomended to 
>just delete the locks in tmp as the program using it may still be active. 
>if you want to do some cleaning just dont delete the hidden locks as a 
>rule of thumb (i hope you are doing this while out of X since it depends 
>on the .X0lock file to gain exclusive use of the display :0 or something 
>like that).
>
>one interesting point that i read in ibm.com was the use of tmpfs as your 
>/tmp. tmpfs is like a normal filesystem but instead of in the disks, the 
>files are stored in memory (physical and swap). One drawback is that if 
>you dont specify the maximum size of the tmpfs you may find yourself 
>running out of memory and your system will resort to killing the biggest 
>hog which usually is X. The good thing is that your tmp is really cleaned 
>upon shutdown as all the files in tmp is on volatile memory. if you issue 
>a mount command you will find that you already have a tmpfs on your system 
>(i think this was only applicable to 2.2.x and above kernels) and it is 
>mounted on /dev/shm. if anybody want to read the whole article, go to the 
>MUO board and search the tips and tricks section for something like 
>ibm.com or filesystem.
>
>if you can free some more space (from windows maybe? ;-) then do so with 
>partition magic (or whatever tool you have), create a linux partition 
>(choose what type) ang mount it on /tmp. sorry but that is the simplest 
>route that i can think of but maybe somebody here can suggest a better idea.
>
>ciao!


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