SERVER-32772 dbtest task should write to task directory

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/evergreen.yml b/etc/evergreen.yml
index beb5d1835c9..1b09c586bc9 100644
--- a/etc/evergreen.yml
+++ b/etc/evergreen.yml
@@ -503,6 +503,13 @@ functions:
         set -o errexit
         set -o verbose
 
+        # Set the TMPDIR environment variable to be a directory in the task's working
+        # directory so that temporary files created by processes spawned by resmoke.py get
+        # cleaned up after the task completes. This also ensures the spawned processes
+        # aren't impacted by limited space in the mount point for the /tmp directory.
+        export TMPDIR="${workdir}/tmp"
+        mkdir -p $TMPDIR
+
         if [ ${disable_unit_tests|false} = "false" ]; then
 
         # activate the virtualenv if it has been set up