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  1. Application Server 3 4 5 and 6
  2. JBAS-5256

Unbounded tmp file creation with ProfileService enabled

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    • JBossAS-5.0.0.CR1
    • JBossAS-5.0.0.Beta4
    • ProfileService
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      Set the jboss.vfs.forceNoCopy system property to true
      -Djboss.vfs.forceNoCopy=true

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      Set the jboss.vfs.forceNoCopy system property to true -Djboss.vfs.forceNoCopy=true

      AS5Beta4 is increasingly creating temporary files under /tmp (5 files every 30 seconds). This issue has got something to do with the profile service, as it is for bootstrap-repo profile.
      http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ProfileService

      JBoss Security Team has been running AS5Beta4 on a server. So after 16 hours or so (when there was no interaction/activity), the /tmp folder reached 55GB. So the AS instance had to be brought down.

      The /tmp folder has files with pattern nestedjar*:

            starksm64 Scott Stark (Inactive)
            starksm64 Scott Stark (Inactive)
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