Old tasks remain in the boinc Folder
7 Dec 2013 2:21:32 UTC
Topic 197299
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In addition to my recent Crunching problems I discovered something else:
In my einstein Project Folder there are over 1700 itmes, each about 5MB:
> h1_0050.60_S6Directed
> einsteinbinary_BRP5_1.39_i686-apple-darwin__BRP5-opencl-ati-lion
> hsgamma_FGRP1_0.30_i686-apple-darwin
Some date back to 2010, but almost all are from 2013, so I guess Boinc doesn't delete the sent einstein tasks. Now 1st Question: any problems if I delete them manually? How to fix this so they get deleted automatically in the future? 8GB is quite some space on an SSD.
Old tasks remain in the boinc Folder
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Most of those files consist of the data that we analyze, Einstein uses a locality scheduler to try and send you tasks that analyze the same bit of data in different ways, this should reduce the amount of data that needs to be downloaded. These files should be deleted when there are no more tasks to analyze them.
If you delete them manually they will be downloaded again!
If you want to clean them out anyway set Einstein to "no new tasks" in Boinc, finish all cached work and do a manual update of the project to report all finished tasks and then do a project reset. That should clean out all files associated with the project, then set Einstein to get more tasks again. If it does not clean out the files then do a remove/add of the project. The downside is that when you get new tasks the initial download can be quite big.
Thanks for the advice, after
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Thanks for the advice, after my Cache was emptied I tried that and disk usage went down from 8GB to 1.2 GB, quite an improvement.
Don't worry, disk usage will
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Don't worry, disk usage will grow again over time ;)
MrS
Scanning for our furry friends since Jan 2002
Well, actually it got even
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Well, actually it got even less, I don't mind that development :)
RE: If you want to clean
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It turns out that I, too had over 8 Gigabytes of Einstein (slightly over 9). As I was preparing for a host rebuild with new HD, this seemed a lot to copy, so I followed your advice, and once the machine was up and running a full set of tasks again, the Einstein directory had only 575 Mbytes of files of all types.
Back in the 9 Gb days, 8.5 Gb was in the form of 1618 *.*S6Directed files totalling over 8.6 Gigabytes, which seems a tad much considering that this host was only running a single CasA GW S6 Directed search job.