Hi, Tomcat doesn't produce these, they must come from one of your apps or you have a funky installation.
Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Peter Alvin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:38 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Kinda Urgent: Huge Temporary Files (>2BG) Fill Up Root Partition >(mrfxxxxx.tmp files?) > >Hello, > >Someone on the user list recommended I post my question on the >developer list. Any help would be greatly appreciated! > >I've spent about 5 hours researching this myself--including the >mailing list archives--and have yet to find any references let alone >solutions. There are no references to "mrf" files that are causing >me grief. This posting is my only hope! :) > >Here's the scoop: Massively HUGE .tmp files grow in this directory: > > /var/cache/tomcat4/temp > >Here is an example: > >-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat4 tomcat4 0 Sep 2 11:21 mrf20758.tmp >-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat4 tomcat4 0 Sep 2 11:20 mrf20757.tmp >-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat4 tomcat4 0 Sep 2 11:19 mrf20756.tmp >-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat4 tomcat4 2272915456 Sep 2 11:19 >mrf20744.tmp >-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat4 tomcat4 0 Sep 2 11:17 mrf20755.tmp >-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat4 tomcat4 0 Sep 2 11:17 mrf20754.tmp >-rw-r--r-- 1 tomcat4 tomcat4 0 Sep 2 11:16 mrf20753.tmp > >I don't know what these files are for nor why some of them grow to >over 2GB. > >It's kinda urgent because this kills our server every 24 hours or so. > It forces me to stop tomcat, delete the files, then re-start. >Sometimes I have to do a kill -9 on the tomcat process because the >process is apparently stuck still trying to write yet more bytes to >these files! > >Incidently, we have another server with the same directory, but there >are only just a few of these mrf files and they don't grow to be very >big--so, it's not a problem on the other server. > >Also incidently, our Java program uses a lot of memory which causes >frequent and long garbage collections. Are these related? > >Can anyone help? What are these files for? > >Peter Alvin >mobile 719-210-3858 > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
