On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 12/21/2015 at 08:09 AM, "Jousma, David" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > All, > > > > We have for the longest time used a 256MB TFS for /tmp. Beauty of that > is > > with every IPL, the transient data is wiped out, and start fresh again. > > We've very rarely ever run into filesystem space problems. However, our > DB2 > > sysprogs are running into problems when performing maintenance > activities on > > our IDAA appliances when loading new/updated code to it via their gui > > interface. Seems as though that tool wants to use /tmp space between > copying > > data from DB2 filesystem to IDAA hardware. Some of these objects are > 2G or > > larger in size, so they have run into space problems, and they claim > there is > > no way to override what to use for temp space. > > > > So, I've been contemplating making /tmp a standard ZFS of sufficient > size, > > but am wondering how you all setup controls to manage the space? > > Aside from what others have mentioned, an additional thing you could do is > with every IPL, do an "rm -rf /tmp/*" command. This will replicate the > previous behavior in that everything goes away with an IPL, so there > shouldn't be a significant backlash from it. > > If you were able to get by with a 256MB /tmp before, and are only doing > this for one (mis-behaving) application, I'm not sure that skulker is > really going to be that necessary. Of course, time will tell. > > > Mark Post >
FWIW, I tried looking at the Information Center for this product. Everything that I could find specifically said "/tmp". There is no specification in any configuration file that I could find to override. Looks like either the doc is poor, or the programmers were _lazy_. If they were z/OS people, I'd expect a parameter in a config file. If they were UNIX programmers, I'd expect proper use of environment variables ($TMPDIR or $TMP or even their own $TMPIDAA like "vim" does). -- Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
