pico /etc/services
ulimit 20000 # size in k
BTW
It cannot remove files in use.
It would simply generate cron errors
-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Andersson [mailto:lars@stripped]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:05 AM
To: Black, Kelly W [PCS]
Cc: mysql@stripped
Subject: RE: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?
Thanks,
Unfortunatley I think things will break if I remove the temporary files
while they still are in use =)
I want a solution that keeps the files limited in size. There must be
some settings that controll this kind of stuff.
/Lars
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Black, Kelly W [PCS] wrote:
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> use strict;
> my @files=(`/bin/ls /tmp/sql*.M*`);
> for (@files) {
> unlink;
> }
> exit 0;
>
>
> shell> crontab -e
>
> 0 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/perl /path/to/delete/program
>
> :wq
>
> :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lars Andersson [mailto:lars@stripped]
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:56 AM
> To: mysql@stripped
> Subject: mysql fills the disk with temporary files?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I manage a mysql server with a few hundred users. All of a sudden mysql
> has started to put large files in /tmp
>
> I've never noticed this behavior before. The files looks like this
>
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 3788431360 Oct 31 17:49
> #sql420e_36b82b_1.MYD
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1024 Oct 31 17:39
> #sql420e_36b82b_1.MYI
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1094713344 Oct 31 17:49
> #sql420e_36b8c6_1.MYD
> -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 1024 Oct 31 17:45
> #sql420e_36b8c6_1.MYI
>
> I wonder if this is the result of someone making a heap table to big to
> fit into the servers memory?
>
> How do I stop these files from filling my diskspace. The server filled
> 10GB of space in notime and forced me to halt the server and put in some
> extra disks and symlink some directories to the new disks.
>
> I'm running
> MySQL-Max-3.23.53a
> 2x1.3Ghz PIII with 2GB of ram
> RedHat 7.3
> glibc-2.2.5-40.
>
> Could this file-thing be related to the glibc-mysql problems?
>
> regards
> /Lars
>
>
> query,sql
>
>
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