Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-27 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 4-26-14 09:43:41 Heinz Diehl wrote: On 26.04.2014, Garry T. Williams wrote: That's not true. Swap will come into play and unreferenced data in the /tmp files will be paged out in favor of claiming that memory for other uses. Did you actually try? [htd@kiera ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-26 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 26.04.2014, Garry T. Williams wrote: That's not true. Swap will come into play and unreferenced data in the /tmp files will be paged out in favor of claiming that memory for other uses. Did you actually try? [htd@kiera ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/bigfile bs=1M count=3000 dd: error

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 24 April 2014, Rick Stevens sent: Also note that by default, /tmp is now a tmpfs (RAMdisk) thing, so any info in /tmp will NOT survive a reboot. What happens when you run out of RAM? Could that be the cause of /tmp being prematurely wiped out? -- [tim@localhost ~]$

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/25/2014 06:05 AM, Tim issued this missive: Allegedly, on or about 24 April 2014, Rick Stevens sent: Also note that by default, /tmp is now a tmpfs (RAMdisk) thing, so any info in /tmp will NOT survive a reboot. What happens when you run out of RAM? Could that be the cause of /tmp being

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread benfell
Rick Stevens writes: IMHO using a tmpfs for /tmp is a spectacularly stupid thing to do. How it got by the vetting process is beyond me. I agree. A number of distributions are doing it, however. If you have lots of RAM, I guess it's okay, and it certainly would be faster for /tmp access.

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Justin Brown
IMHO using a tmpfs for /tmp is a spectacularly stupid thing to do. How it got by the vetting process is beyond me. There shouldn't be anything that uses anything beyond a negligible amount of storage. Remember that there is no guarantee that /tmp data is preserved between invocations. Why

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread benfell
Justin Brown writes: Complaints about this sort of thing are either a failure of the user or software developer to keep up to date on the file system standards. My understanding was that file system hierarchy was supposed to be about how files are arranged so that they would be consistent

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Justin Brown
To mandate RAM allocation in this way will take many people, including myself, by surprise. It's been this way on Fedora for over two years (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs). Most other new distributions do it, too. From that feature page, Solaris has been doing this since

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread benfell
Justin Brown writes: 50% is just the absolute maximum that can be used, and it's a default which can be controlled via mount option (or /lib/systemd/system/tmp.mount Options=size=... with systemd). Thank you for telling me what to kill. I have way too much trouble with my systems being

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Justin Brown
David, This doesn't make sense. Tmpfs can be swapped out, so you're gaining absolutely nothing and taking on a development and maintenance burden. IO for /tmp would have to come from disk when using tmpfs (in the case of heavy swapping) or a traditional file system either way. In the end, we're

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread benfell
Justin Brown writes: David, This doesn't make sense. Tmpfs can be swapped out, so you're gaining absolutely nothing and taking on a development and maintenance burden. IO for /tmp would have to come from disk when using tmpfs (in the case of heavy swapping) or a traditional file system either

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 24 April 2014, Rick Stevens sent: Also note that by default, /tmp is now a tmpfs (RAMdisk) thing, so any info in /tmp will NOT survive a reboot. What happens when you run out of RAM? Could that be the cause of /tmp being prematurely

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/25/2014 02:15 PM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: To me, the idea of sticking /tmp in RAM is absolutely bizarre. And the fact that it can be swapped is no help: It's one more thing to swap. I want *less* swapping, not more. How much swapping is your system doing? Give us the results of

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/25/2014 04:36 PM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: And this is at a relatively slack time. I'm not noticing impaired performance right now: [root@munich]/etc/ejabberd# free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3254 3128

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread benfell
Joe Zeff writes: On 04/25/2014 04:36 PM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: And this is at a relatively slack time. I'm not noticing impaired performance right now: [root@munich]/etc/ejabberd# free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 3254

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/25/2014 05:08 PM, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: It's already a 64-bit system. I am hoping and expecting to be able to increase the RAM later this year. But I can't, yet: It's a dedicated server in Munich that I'm renting month-to-month and I have to be able to swing the rent. ;-)

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 10:03 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: No, but IIRC the tmpfs filesystem created and mounted on /tmp is 50% of your system RAM. Once that is committed, it's done. It won't use up all of your RAM and /tmp won't get any bigger than that, but then again half of your available RAM

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 4-25-14 10:03:11 Rick Stevens wrote: No, but IIRC the tmpfs filesystem created and mounted on /tmp is 50% of your system RAM. Once that is committed, it's done. It won't use up all of your RAM and /tmp won't get any bigger than that, but then again half of your available RAM is no longer

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-25 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/26/2014 04:45 AM, Tim wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 10:03 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: No, but IIRC the tmpfs filesystem created and mounted on /tmp is 50% of your system RAM. Once that is committed, it's done. It won't use up all of your RAM and /tmp won't get any bigger than that, but then

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/21/2014 04:36 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 09:11:58PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: I don't know when the aged based cleaning started, but it isn't expressly stated in the original feature and I'm not finding a followup feature that indicates this change. On the other

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 01:43:21PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 09:11:58PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: I don't know when the aged based cleaning started, but it isn't expressly stated in the original feature and I'm not finding a followup feature that indicates this

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Tucker
For what it's worth, this is still FUBAR. I definitely see a bug here. I recently moved from Xubuntu - Fedora XFCE - Plain Fedora and this is when this all started happening. Both the Xfce respin and the plain setup were FC20. I've attempted to disable anything that might be eating things from

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Tucker wrote: For what it's worth, this is still FUBAR. I definitely see a bug here. ... which is what I suggested earlier. I don't think anyone else is seeing this to help you workaround it. Please report this against systemd and developers involved

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Tucker
Agreed. When you initially suggested it, I figured it was a problem with me and something I could fix if I understood what was going on. Now I think it's a problem with systemd/init/soup that a reasonably intelligent person can't be expected to deal with. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:58 PM,

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/25/14 04:08, Tucker wrote: Agreed. When you initially suggested it, I figured it was a problem with me and something I could fix if I understood what was going on. When you file the bugzilla, would you kindly post the link for it here? -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Michael Hennebry
Perhaps a workaround is a cron job that runs every fifty minutes and touches every file under /tmp . -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. -- John

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-24 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/24/2014 04:24 PM, Michael Hennebry issued this missive: Perhaps a workaround is a cron job that runs every fifty minutes and touches every file under /tmp . First, make sure the systemd stuff that cleans it is disabled: systemctl stop systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 09:11:58PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: I don't know when the aged based cleaning started, but it isn't expressly stated in the original feature and I'm not finding a followup feature that indicates this change. On the other hand, it sounds like most of the time

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-20 Thread Andrew Haley
On 04/18/2014 12:56 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Tucker wrote: That's helpful, thanks. There appear to be a number of services that depend on the tmpfiles.d conf files. I don't want to break things like kmod, I just want this thing that's doing Bad Things to

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Apr 20, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/18/2014 12:56 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:43 PM, Tucker wrote: That's helpful, thanks. There appear to be a number of services that depend on the tmpfiles.d conf files. I don't want to break

Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-17 Thread Tucker
Hello, Since installing FC20, I've been struggling to deal with the fact that something is eating files in /tmp before I'm done with them. (I'm not talking about reboots.) If I create a file in /tmp, within N minutes, it is deleted. This is problematic since I have quite a few tools/tasks that

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-17 Thread poma
On 17.04.2014 23:19, Tucker wrote: Hello, Since installing FC20, I've been struggling to deal with the fact that something is eating files in /tmp before I'm done with them. (I'm not talking about reboots.) If I create a file in /tmp, within N minutes, it is deleted. This is problematic

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-17 Thread Tucker
Presumably, removing all the files in those directories would do the same but it appears that it's still purging /tmp. Does systemd-tmpfiles require a reload/restart before it picks up changes? If so, that conveniently requires a reboot since it ignores manual anything. I'd love to be able to

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-17 Thread Tucker
That's helpful, thanks. There appear to be a number of services that depend on the tmpfiles.d conf files. I don't want to break things like kmod, I just want this thing that's doing Bad Things to my transient files in /*/tmp/* directories to stop. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Joe Zeff

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-17 Thread poma
On 18.04.2014 01:24, Tucker wrote: Presumably, removing all the files in those directories would do the same but it appears that it's still purging /tmp. Does systemd-tmpfiles require a reload/restart before it picks up changes? If so, that conveniently requires a reboot since it ignores

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-17 Thread Tucker
I remember when Linux used to be easy... ;) That's perfect. I actually just made it to that part of the man page and I _never_ would have read that section and thought this will stop it! Much appreciated. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:45 PM, poma pomidorabelis...@gmail.com wrote: On 18.04.2014

Re: Disable whatever is cleaning /tmp

2014-04-17 Thread Tucker
I don't see a bug here. I see a BOFH that doesn't like the new way of things (Bring me my XFCE, dammit! And get off my lawn!) and using a work around is how I expect my life to work. If I didn't want/expect to kick things around until it worked the way I wanted, I'd be using an Apple. On Thu,