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Warn users about disk usage prior to each run.

Open DailyDreaming opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

Wherever they set the jobstore, if it's local, we can have a user warning telling people how much disk space they have left.

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Story ┆Issue Number: TOIL-837

DailyDreaming avatar Mar 27 '21 20:03 DailyDreaming

Wherever they set the jobstore, if it's local, we can have a user warning telling people how much disk space they have left.

This comes out running out of /tmp space because of Toil leaving tmp files behind. Users tend to assume that is it someone else consuming the disk space, so just saying how much disk space is left is of limited use.

It would be far more helpful to print out the about of space that the run has consumed, both final data files and tmp files that were not cleaned.

diekhans avatar Mar 27 '21 20:03 diekhans

@diekhans Hmmm... actually tracking the tmp dir usage would be useful. I'll look into it.

DailyDreaming avatar Mar 27 '21 21:03 DailyDreaming

@DailyDreaming I've set this to in progress since you have a PR for it, but the PR is like 3 years old.

adamnovak avatar Dec 18 '24 18:12 adamnovak