How to set quota on /tmp/eaccelerator

[steveluscher]

Eaccelerator keeps filling up my /tmp partition, which wrecks havoc on the rest of my server.

Is there a way to either:

• configure eaccelerator to limit the amount of disk space it uses
• configure a disk quota for the directory /tmp/eaccelerator that deletes old files after the quota has been reached

Cheers,
Steven…

[ChrisRHS]

You may have tmpwatch on your system. The cron for that is run daily:

vi /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch

In there, you can set the max amount of hours for keeping an old file. Lowering this, will clear out all your old cache files.

Another way, is to run a command like below in the tmp folder:

find eaccelerator -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

It will clear out any eacceletator files older than 30 days. Use that command carefully though!

[steveluscher]

Thanks Chris.

I know about tmpwatch, but it doesn't solve the problem. I want the system to delete files once the directory reaches a certain size, not once the files inside it reach a certain age.

[wizzy420]

Then write yourself a script and run it hourly from cron.

#!shell
#
check disk usage of directory
if (usage > a number)
delete files
fi

[wizzy420]

Or do what I do, make /tmp bigger.

[steveluscher]

Hi everyone,

I get that there are a million ways to crack this nut, and that shell scripts + cron can get 'er done, but I have to believe that, like cPanel sets per-user-directory quotas, there should be a way to set a bonafide quota on /tmp/eaccelerator.

Does anyone know how to use the quota approach to solve the problem of /tmp/eaccelerator filling up the /tmp directory?