[rt-users] temp files leftover in /tmp sucking up all space

[Jesse Vincent]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:25:22PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> I have my max attachment size set to 3Mb.  Occasionally, I get a  
> "brilliant" customer who decides to email a 5 or 7 Mb attachment to  
> our RT (running 3.2.3).  What happens is that some temp file is  
> created in /tmp of a huge size, and then rt-mailgate dies.  The mail  
> logs show something like this:
> 
> 
> Oct  3 03:02:54 w01 postfix/local[28234]: 9F290362CA: to=<MUMBLE>,  
> relay=local, delay=257901, status=deferred (temporary failure.  
> Command output: An Error Occurred =================  500 Server  
> closed connection without sending any data back )
> 
> and the temp file is left sitting there sucking up valuable space.   
> Eventually, after the mail server retries that message a handful of  
> times, /tmp fills up and all heck breaks loose.
> 
> What can I do to protect myself from this?  Can mailgate do the usual  
> open/delete/use tempfile trick that make unix special?  Or do I need  
> to bump up the maxmem setting for mail processes or something?
> 

Is it the mailgate or the server-side? (I'd been under the impression
that we'd clobbered this bug on the server side as of 3.4.0 or so.)

Are you using modperl or fcgi? If mod_perl, does it help to tune your
threads to answer fewer requests? (Some of the tempfiles may be cleaned
at "program" exit)