Temp files filling up disk space

Hi,
I am not sure what or why this this is happening, but the /tmp folder on our servers keep getting filled up with some XMLP files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr system 1178869 Sep 22 01:15 /tmp/xdo1190423730343.fo
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr system 1266343936 Sep 22 02:15 /tmp/xdo1190423733448.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr system 351109678 Sep 22 02:15 /tmp/xdo1190423733555.pla
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr system 993159 Sep 22 02:02 /tmp/xdo1190426572262.fo
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr system 215040000 Sep 22 02:15 /tmp/xdo1190426575027.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 applmgr system 69623808 Sep 22 02:31 /tmp/xdo1190426575162.pla
Any idea what is causing this? Or how can this be prevented?
We are on 11.5.9 and using XMLP 5.5
Thanks,
Ashish
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Ashish Srivastava

Could somebody explain
What are scalable features and how do we turn them off?
One time I had a very bad experience with these files.
File got created and its size was more than 65GB 'carzy!!'
it hang up whole system,every thing worked fine after deleating this file.
They get created,dont know how and why??
Are we missing something..?? or
Are we supposed to turn off something..??
Any ideas!!
thanks
ss

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