limit query size and customize /tmp dir

[tao-bioinfo]

We set up a sequenceserver app for public and usually the /tmp dir would ran out of disk storage because of long DNA query sizes resulting in large temporary files.

Therefore two configs are needed: (1) an option that limits the maxium input sequence lengths (2) an option that customize a directory for temporary files.

[tao-bioinfo]

Still need this feature since our server has been damaged for many times

[yannickwurm]

Hi @billzt

• IIRC we do have a limit of 10mb on query size.
• if you set $TMPDIR to something else, the data should go elsewhere
• Regarding data filling up - the way we usually set it up is to have a cron job deleting old things after a while

I hope this helps, Yannick

[tao-bioinfo]

Thanks. Would you be pleased to give a cron example on how to delete long running blast jobs from SequenceServer, while keeping other local blast jobs unaffected?