Comments on: Are Temp Files Slowing Your Builds Down? http://www.alittlemadness.com/2009/11/24/are-temp-files-slowing-your-builds-down/ A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:31:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jason http://www.alittlemadness.com/2009/11/24/are-temp-files-slowing-your-builds-down/comment-page-1/#comment-194734 Jason Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:16:55 +0000 http://www.alittlemadness.com/?p=409#comment-194734 Hi Rohan, That's a neat idea: piggy-back on Pulse's default cleanup to blow away the temp files when the build completes. I might give that a go -- then we could also add warnings to our builds if stray junk is found in those directories. Hi Rohan,

That’s a neat idea: piggy-back on Pulse’s default cleanup to blow away the temp files when the build completes. I might give that a go — then we could also add warnings to our builds if stray junk is found in those directories.

]]> By: Rohan http://www.alittlemadness.com/2009/11/24/are-temp-files-slowing-your-builds-down/comment-page-1/#comment-194666 Rohan Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:22:17 +0000 http://www.alittlemadness.com/?p=409#comment-194666 At the beginning of every build I create a "_tmp" directory under the Pulse base dir and set TMP, TMPDIR, TEMP and TEMPDIR to point to that. With "clean checkout" or "clean update", all the temp files will be deleted at the end of a build... that fixes almost all the problems I've seen so far with temporary files not being cleaned up. The remaining problems are tools that hardcode temp dir paths, and tools that are so broken they can fill up an entire temp dir within the time of a single build! At the beginning of every build I create a “_tmp” directory under the Pulse base dir and set TMP, TMPDIR, TEMP and TEMPDIR to point to that. With “clean checkout” or “clean update”, all the temp files will be deleted at the end of a build… that fixes almost all the problems I’ve seen so far with temporary files not being cleaned up.

The remaining problems are tools that hardcode temp dir paths, and tools that are so broken they can fill up an entire temp dir within the time of a single build!

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