Flame crash trash

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Hey folks,
Working on some large scripts in batch that seem to consume all of my 256 gig of ram…. crashing the system - z840 linux.
OUT OF MEMORY error. In the process my system disk is filling up. Wondering where Adsk is putting this files. The two places I have found is /tmp and /var/tmp.
Do I break anything by removing the adsk.log and tmp? files? Is there anywhere else Adsk dumps that trash?

Sorry for the trash talk.
Thanks
Dave

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I serious touching anything there would do anything. You can always rename it and test it, then delete it.

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I had an issue recently where the JSON directory somewhere in /opt/autodesk filled up with literally millions of files. I blew them all away (no small task in itself) and things got a lot more stable and snappy.

I wish I could be more specific but all of the details are on the logik Facebook group, and I’ve since deleted my Facebook account.

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Hi Dave,

Technically speaking, you should not have to remove any files manually.

Temporary files should be taken care of by the Operating System or the application (depending on the type of files).

Out of curiosity, what is the name of the files you narrowed down as potential left out temporary files?

Also, you do not break anything by removing the flame related log files. These are automatically recreated when launching the application.

Please, let us know.

Best,
Yann

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Thanks Randy and Kirk.

Hey Yann,
Yes, this last project was a bit taxing on the system.
Usually we get the crash screen. …prompting to send an email… these crashes however were good old fashioned freeze up/OUT OF MEMORY errors which usually needed a kf, crtl-alt-backspace or ssh root@. reboot. This probably preempted the automatic removal of files…(I think :).
Here’s a sample : ls -al
/tmp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 flame2021 users 0 Oct 2 19:55 adsk_Volume_tar_27052.2.log
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 139 Oct 2 13:23 agent-stderr-103007.log
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 139 Oct 2 15:55 agent-stderr-104189.log
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 139 Oct 2 17:21 agent-stderr-117326.log
rw------- 1 flame2021 users 321 Oct 2 13:19 .Xauth5yBRwb
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 321 Oct 2 13:59 .Xauth75kCJa
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 321 Sep 30 12:05 .Xauth8iHAqc
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 321 Sep 25 22:57 .Xauth8M30db
-rw------- 1 root root 321 Oct 2 12:01 .Xauth9LEKqa
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 321 Sep 27 14:44 .XauthAB55va
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 321 Oct 2 20:53 .XauthAuS6ha
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 321 Sep 29 21:39 .XauthAyF10a
-rw------- 1 flame2021 users 321 Oct 2 12:11 .XauthcQecjc <—(got a bunch of these guys)

/var/tmp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 flame2021 users 114055 Oct 2 21:47 tmp
-rw-rw-rw- 1 flame2021 users 315800 Oct 2 21:37 tmp0
drwxr-xr-x 2 flame2021 users 6 Sep 16 21:05 import_fbm_0EdPsp/
drwxr-xr-x 2 flame2021 users 6 Sep 27 14:48 import_fbm_49suD8/
drwxr-xr-x 2 flame2021 users 6 Sep 29 19:07 import_fbm_5Ii5Uz/
drwxr-xr-x 2 flame2021 users 6 Sep 21 21:30 import_fbm_6vCHA3/

Thanks
Dave

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Hi @DaveS,

The rule of thumb is that all temporary files in /tmp are deleted on reboot on macOS. On CentOS, these files stay for a 6 days period before being deleted.

The rule is less strict with temporary files located in /var/tmp, although they are eventually deleted by the Operating System.

That is said, you can safely remove all files located in /var/tmp (listed in your previous message).

Let me know if you have any other questions,

Best,
Yann