Some of my colleagues just encountered a weird bug. For some reason PhpStorm keeps sending files via SFTP to the /tmp folder until its full and the server (Ubuntu) is unresponsive. There's nothing to see in the File Transfer Log, there's no setting allowing to sync project files unless they are explicit saved. Even if I turn that off, it keeps spamming. There's also no uploading process bar that is typically at the bottom.

I only see it via iotop (Host) and Windows Task Manager (Client), he managed to fix it by updating PhpStorm to the current version.

Until another colleague with a fully updated PhpStorm version just encountered the same kind of bug.

The files are not part of our projects and to me they seem like "preset" or "template" files for Angular, React etc. like Vite template or so. bug.

I googled for hours, and I just found an issue that is 9 years old:

Same problem, no answer.

Pretty frustrating for a enterprise software like that.

Just doing normal SFTP deployment on explicit save, I don't expect that my VM gets flooded by random workflow files. Or at least, tell me that something is transferring.

Edit 06.02.2025: Finally Answer see what LazyOne said, this problem was due usage of remote development with the nodejs interpreter, only god knows why it worked for years and now its making some problems. We just installed nodejs locally.