The /tmp directory gets flooded by "auth-agent*" folders

[fikovnik]

What happened?

I use devpod to create a devcontainer that I connect from both Intellij IDEA (for the Java part of the project) and ssh where I start tmux and neovim (for the C++ part of the project). Today I realized that the /tmp directory gets flooded by auth-agent* directories. A new directory is created about every second:

drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:34 auth-agent1008629510
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:37 auth-agent1027115269
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:36 auth-agent1040715800
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:32 auth-agent107829153
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:34 auth-agent1096869530
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:34 auth-agent1100131597
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:34 auth-agent1104985039
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:34 auth-agent1147654851
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:33 auth-agent117922636
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:31 auth-agent1198594084
drwx------ 1 vscode vscode        0 Dec  9 10:31 auth-agent1202486330

The main issue that my app does generate some temp files in /tmp and because there are quickly too many auth-agent* directories, all file system operations become too slow.

How can we reproduce the bug? (as minimally and precisely as possible)

My devcontainer.json:

 "name": "r-compile-server",
  "build": {
    "dockerfile": "./Dockerfile",
    "context": "."
  },
  "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=/workspace,type=bind,consistency=cached",
  "workspaceFolder": "/workspace",
  "postCreateCommand": "make setup",
  "customizations": {
    "vscode": {
      "extensions": [
        "vscjava.vscode-java-pack",
        "llvm-vs-code-extensions.vscode-clangd",
        "vadimcn.vscode-lldb"
      ]
    }
  },
  "runArgs": [
    "--cap-add=SYS_PTRACE",
    "--security-opt",
    "seccomp=unconfined"
  ],
  "updateRemoteUserUID": true,
  "features": {
    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/common-utils:2": {
      "configureZshAsDefaultShell": true
    }
  }

I start it using:

devpod up --ide intellij --dotfiles https://github.com/fikovnik/dotfiles --id r-compile-server .

Local Environment:

• DevPod Version: 0.6.4
• Operating System: mac
• ARCH of the OS: ARM64

DevPod Provider:

• Local provider: docker (via OrbStack)

[pascalbreuninger]

Hey @fikovnik, thanks for reporting this issue. Is the amount of folders growing constantly or is it one burst during startup?
We currently create one of those folders per ssh connection and IntelliJ seems to be running a couple of commands during initialization

[fikovnik]

No, they are constantly created ~ 3K/hour.