[ZODB-Dev] Where's ZEO client temp cache files in Linux?

[Andrew Sydelko]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:28:45 -0500
Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at zope.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 03:49, Choo Zhi Min wrote:
> > I also run the same ZEO client in Red Hat Linux 9. But I couldn't find any 
> > .zec and .tbuf files in ~/ , /tmp or /var/tmp. Where do these files go? 
> > Are they hidden in some obscure directory and eat up my hdd space?
> 
> The temporary cache files are created using tempfile.TemporaryFile(). 
> They are unlinked as soon as they are opened, so you won't be able to
> find the files in the directory.  

You can use a tool like lsof to see the temporary files as
they still take up a file descriptor. Lsof will also show you
how much space each temporary file is taking.

--andy.