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dataout folder is 2.86Gb
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Send message Joined: 31 Aug 04 Posts: 42 Credit: 547,031 RAC: 0 |
Hi I have just noticed the total space boinc is using totals over 3gb and rising. The largest folder is "dataout" folder at 2.68GB. Located here - the model I'm crunching now. C:BOINC Data->projects->climateprediction.net->hadam3p_nhpg....->dataout I've searched the forums with no luck. I'm going to exit boinc for now as the amount of diskspace its eating up is growing by the minute. It was 2.99GB half an hour ago, it is now 3.15GB.. Any ideas? Thanks |
Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 7629 Credit: 24,240,330 RAC: 0 |
There will indeed be lots of files in that folder. These files build up until upload time, at which point they are zipped and sent back to Oxford. And then the process starts again for those model types that have several phases. (Slab, mid-Holocene.) Perhaps the real problem is one folder further back in the tree; do you have lots of folders at that point for models that are no longer running? They can be deleted. 2 things will cause these old folders to accumulate: 1) ALL models that crash. 2) Certain model types that don't clean up after they finish. I think that the hadam3p's are one of these. PS The Search option's default is only for one month. To go back further, you need to use Advanced, and select, e.g. 1 year. |
Send message Joined: 31 Aug 04 Posts: 42 Credit: 547,031 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the info. I removed a few old folders and then restarted, whereupon the model abruptly finished and uploaded what it had (not much in the 15sec upload time). I presume the model crashed although the webpage says "client detached". I've unistalled, downloaded the latest version and I'm starting again :) cheers |
Send message Joined: 29 Sep 04 Posts: 2363 Credit: 14,611,758 RAC: 0 |
That's unfortunate. I think you must have accidentally deleted some file that your running model needed. Never mind. Occasionally you can set CPDN in the Projects tab to No New Work and when the model you're running has completed, uploaded and reported you can highlight CPDN and Reset the project. This deletes any leftover CPDN files that are no longer needed. You mustn't do this while you have a running (or even a suspended) model or you'll lose it! But it's a quick and easy thing to do and it starts CPDN off from scratch again. Cpdn news |
Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 2 Credit: 158,571 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the info. I removed a few old folders and then restarted, whereupon the model abruptly finished and uploaded what it had (not much in the 15sec upload time). How is your system performing now? NOT SPAM |
Send message Joined: 31 Aug 04 Posts: 42 Credit: 547,031 RAC: 0 |
No problems at all. The following model is crunching as expected, consuming between 5 to 600mb of disk space. The only setting I changed previous to the large increase in disk space use, was to disallow any "new tasks". I did allocate 100GB of disk space for Boinc in my prefrences, so maybe I shouldn't have been surprised. |
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