what is flooding /var/tmp?

From	"sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	what is flooding /var/tmp?
Date	2021-11-25 04:40 +0100
Message-ID	<DndM5-Gs-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	amd

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Hello,

My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named:

sort01ei1t
sort01Eq7u
sort01sLAs
...
sortzZZtvv


the files are approx. 13 Gb each.
In 24 hours > 6000 are written.

My big partition is filled by it until the system freezes.

The files are plain text files, containing sshfs paths:

/mnt/nas/sshfs/proc/self/task/413551/root/proc/self/task/413551/root/proc/self/task/413551/root/proc/self/task/413551/root/proc/
.........

nas and desktop are running debian 11 daily updated.

How can I find out which program is writing these files?

Thanks!

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what is flooding /var/tmp? "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2021-11-25 04:40 +0100
  Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-25 05:00 +0100
    Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2021-11-25 10:00 +0100
      Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2021-11-26 01:40 +0100
  Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-11-25 05:10 +0100
  Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? "sp007@caiway.net" <sp007@caiway.net> - 2021-11-25 20:40 +0100
  Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? Marc Auslander <marcausl@gmail.com> - 2021-11-25 22:50 +0100
    Re: what is flooding /var/tmp? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2021-11-25 23:10 +0100

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