[TriLUG] /tmp/session_mm_apache0.mem

[Andrew Perrin]

Well you're right:

 12K -rw-------    1 root     root          64M Feb 29 20:28 session_mm_apache0.mem

it's about 12K. That raises another question, though. If the file had
been, e.g., marked "s" in the listing, I would never have bothered to note
it. What kind of file is this that is considered a normal file, yet has
such different sizes?

ap


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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, William R. Gomeringer wrote:

> I believe that file is quite normal and part of how apache "works." Try 'ls
> -hsl' in the /tmp directory to see if the file is actually 67MB, I believe
> you'll find it's only about 1KB. Just a guess. Of course I may be completely
> wrong.
>
> William
>
> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:37 am, J Hays wrote:
> > Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > > Anybody know what the above file is? I haven't seen it before, but it's
> > > there now, and is about 67MB!
> > >
> > > ap
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> > > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> > > clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
> >
> > I don't know but I'll take a guess that it's some kind of core
> > dump, judging by the size (does your machine perchance hold 64 MB
> > of RAM) and the 'mem' at the end of the filename.
> >
> > Jonathan
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