Clearing Out Tempdb Faster?

Hello:

We have been testing a new vendor_purchased application and are now
running some month-end processes/jobs now. One of the processes that we
kicked off stopped when a 2gb tempdb filled up with only 5mb or so remaini
g. In reviewing what happened, I noticed that tempdb is in the process of
clearing itself out slowly when we restarted the process. The database has
80% of its disk space remaining and the transaction log has also 75%
remaining.

My questions are:

1) Although I don't think so, is there nay way of speeding up the process
of tempdb clearing out the data in it?

2) We will need to examine what sql code the vendor has used that caused
this to happen. Aside from group by and order by, if there are a lot of
'select into' code, what alternatives do we have?

Any information that can be provided will be fine. THanks in advance.


DAvid Spaisman