On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:47:28 -0400 WRFI Programs <[email protected]> wrote: > Trying to investigate our Rivendell host computer and disk space issues. > > Its /tmp directory size is around 14GB. Seems large to me but I'm new to > Rivendell. > > Can anyone tell me what might be a normal /tmp directory size for a running > Rivendell system? In this particular /tmp directory, almost all of the 14GB > is taken up by files in a systemd http sub directory. Within that folder, a > few dozen folders ranging in size from ~55MB to ~275MB. The name of the > containing folder suggests to me something possibly related to web > streaming...
The size of /tmp isn't the only issue to consider. On a server usually symlink /tmp and /var/tmp to the partition that holds /var/snd, so there is lots of space. On a system where /var/snd is NFS mounted, symlink /tmp and /var/tmp to the partition that holds /home if that is local .. so that would be /home/tmp . .. because that is a big partition. Rivendell's import process can make 2 (as I recall) copies of the whole thing being imported, uncompressed. Also on setup .. I always partition the disk with several unused small partitions to install again. That way, if it becomes necessary to reinstall or do a major update, there is a place to do it without messing up the user data (things like /home and /var/snd), and also while preserving the old installation, so if it turns out the new doesn't work as expected, it is possible to revert to the old. For this I use several 10 GB partitions. This is too small for /tmp. Even not considering size, I do not like the idea of /tmp on the root file system. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
