Runaway Process Eating Your Disk
/tmp is ballooning by the second and nobody knows why. Find the process responsible, kill it cleanly, and reclaim the space.
Puzzle Overview
A monitoring alert just fired: /tmp is at 85% and climbing fast. Something on this host is writing a huge file into /tmp in a tight loop and refusing to stop.
Your job: identify the culprit, terminate it, make sure it cannot respawn, and reclaim the disk space. The check will verify that nothing is growing /tmp anymore and that the spawning mechanism is gone.
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