[K12OSN] cpu hog woes maybe figured..

["Terrell Prudé, Jr."]

Make the /tmp partition small, say, 500MB.

As for your existing one, I'd implement disk quotas.  That's enabled by 
default in the kernel, so you should be good to go.

--TP

Huck wrote:

> how to cap how much a directory can hold?
> and I'm in full agreement on the /tmp as a partition to go along with 
> /home
>
> --Huck
>
> Rob Owens wrote:
>
>> If /tmp was a separate partition, you could simply reformat it.  I 
>> guess that doesn't help you now, but maybe in the future it would be 
>> worthwhile to set it up this way.  It would also help you keep a cap 
>> on how much crap can get stored in /tmp.
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu 11/04, Christopher K. Johnson < ckjohnson at gwi.net > wrote:
>> From: Christopher K. Johnson [mailto: ckjohnson at gwi.net]
>> To: k12osn at redhat.com
>> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:57:00 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] cpu hog woes maybe figured..
>>
>> Huck wrote:<br><br>> ie..  ...<br>> dummie1a01bOJkw<br>> 
>> dummie1a01bOJkx<br>> dummie1a01bOJky<br>> ...<br>> and so on and so 
>> forth...<br>><br>> when I attempt to 'rm dummie*' I get a bash error 
>> about the argument <br>> list being too long...<br><br>How does 'rm 
>> dummie*w' work?  then substitute x, y, ...<br><br>This could be done 
>> any number of other ways, but that one is easy and <br>will probably 
>> work. <br><br>Chris<br><br>-- 
>> <br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br>   
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