[imp] IMP(?) vs. /tmp

[Herbert Pophal]

On 22.10.2014 10:47, Servizi Informatici (admin) wrote:
> 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.

Thank you very much. That makes sense. I was not aware of this 'Export'
function. These files look indeed like mh files. I just tried to find a
folder big enough to force such timeout.

Herbert