Huge amount of temporary files named IBM_TDPxxxxxx

[ToomasAas]

On my Linux server where TDP for Domino has been in use a couple of months now, I discovered a huge amount of files in /tmp directory looking like this:

-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 11:46 IBM_TDP00BevM
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 12:16 IBM_TDP00bKkW
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 09:28 IBM_TDP00bl8L
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 04:36 IBM_TDP00c7QT
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 02:46 IBM_TDP00CATc
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 01:34 IBM_TDP00cboC
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 04:53 IBM_TDP00CEd5
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 10:46 IBM_TDP00cequ
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 11:08 IBM_TDP00cHCz
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 01:25 IBM_TDP00CMRx
-rws------ 1 lotus lotus       0 2010-10-24 10:06 IBM_TDP00CpuX

There is approximately 1.3 million of these files. I have no firm evidence that they are caused by TDP for Domino, but the name IBM_TDP and a fact that they are owned by the same user who my Domino server runs as seem to suggest so. Any idea what causes these files, is it safe to delete them (at least the older ones) and how to avoid their pileup in the first place?

 

[ToomasAas]

I noticed that actually all these files are more than a month old, whereas the server was rebooted only two days ago. Whatever mishap created these files is probably long gone, so I just nuked the files.