Re: strange file in /tmp
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:29:26 -0700
Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Saturday 30 October 2010 08:28 AM, Mike Klinke wrote:
>
> Have you been using ImageMagick (convert, display) for image
> manipulation? It uses /tmp as a temporary location while processing
> images.
>
Yes I use display quite a bit and I was trying out compare yesterday,
but that was with 2 files less than 30kb. Could that have generated a
13G file?
Easy way to check. Delete the file (it is in /tmp, after all) and then
run ImageMagick again on the same two files while watching /tmp.