[imp] IMP(?) vs. /tmp

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On 10/21/2014 08:27 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> Quoting Herbert Pophal <pophal at tubit.tu-berlin.de>:
>
>> On 20.10.2014 22:36, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>>> Quoting Herbert Pophal <pophal at tubit.tu-berlin.de>:
>>>
>>>> On 16.10.2014 18:18, Juan Bernhard wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not know whether this is the right list to bother with: We
>>>>>> recently
>>>>>> noticed the existence of a bunch of moderately big files (about 800M
>>>>>> each) in /tmp containing mail stuff on two of our machines running
>>>>>> horde
>>>>>> webmail, thus causing the monitor to moan about almost full disks. I
>>>>>> would like to know what this is and how to avoid it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>>> Herbert
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> Nothing I know of in Horde would come even close to creating an 800 MB
>>> temporary file.
>>>
>>> Maybe it is from someone trying to upload a giant file, but that's a 
>>> PHP
>>> configuration issue and has nothing to do with Horde.
>>
>> Well, I forgot to mention the file names were phpXXXXXX, being a
>> standard tmpnam, but php's upload dir is as well set to /var/tmp, and
>> the upload limit is « 500MB.
>
> Those are PHP generated files then.
>
> michael
>
> ___________________________________
> Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]
>
Maybe they are temporary files created when downloading mailbox zipped 
archive.
For some reason httpd process died (or php max execution time exceeded) 
and left them alone.

Valerio