[K12OSN] cpu hog woes maybe figured..

Fri Nov 5 01:33:11 UTC 2004

Huck wrote:

> I have a gazillion(really can't count) files in /tmp
>
> where I notice xses-<user>  and orbit-<user>
> puts/gets info from...
>
> so I figure it's the cpu max'n out trying to access that info...
>
> all filenames start with a like 6 digit name followed by 9 characters 
> incremented
>
> ie..  ...
> dummie1a01bOJkw
> dummie1a01bOJkx
> dummie1a01bOJky
> ...
> and so on and so forth...
>
> when I attempt to 'rm dummie*' I get a bash error about the argument 
> list being too long...
>
> HELP?!?!
> some script guru out there?
>
> --Huck
>

Try it this way and let us know:

When you cd to your /tmp directory, then, as root, issue the "rm -rf *" 
command.

--TP
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