[WBEL-users] tmpwatch command

[James Knowles]

> If this uses RAM you are seriously in trouble of running out of memory 


The default maximum size is 1/2 of the amount of RAM available. You may 
adjust that via command-line parameter. It runs out of "disk" space 
rather than eat up all available RAM.

Of course, ensure that you don't really NEED that RAM for active 
processes else you'll be in swap city. :-)

> tmpfs was suggested for /var/run not /tmp. 


That the scratch for my itch. VMWare and the default /var/run clean up 
script don't play well together -- it's not a bad thing that happens, 
just a minor annoyance with extra messages during boot. /var/run doesn't 
hold anything that needs to persist between boots, and doesn't hold a 
lot of data, so it was a good solution for me.

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
...
none                  504M   56K  504M   1% /var/run