@lanodan I think there's a "cron" job for that now.

I guess it was made like that so multiple application instances could share media between each other, but there are better options for that. An nginx loadbalancer in front of the cluster can serve the media directly without issues. The downside with that is no direct control over the content of the cache unless you pay for nginx (PURGE is not supported). You also avoid the stupidity of most distros now making /tmp and /var/tmp a tmpfs.