[Developers] disk space usage reporting

[David Rideout]

Indeed, it will be quite difficult in general to predict when the disk
will fill.  But this should not cause us to abandon ideas along these
lines.

-David

On 10/20/06, Steve White <steve.white at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> Frank,
>
> On 20.10.06, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Steve White wrote:
> > > I have in mind:  if Cactus could calculate and sum up how much data it
> > > writes in each iteration (and perhaps compare that to remaining storage
> > > space, and estimate how quickly it will fill it),
> >
> > While this is a very nice idea, it already fails with two jobs writing
> > to the same disc. Each would estimate more time to fillup than one
> > really has.
> >
> Of course, this is a consideration.  There are many pragmatic measures one
> can take to guess that a problem will soon arise.  For example, one could
> use the remaining disk space at iteration n, and that at iteration n + 1
> to make an estimate.
>
> As I said, the rest is details.
>
> > Even if it would work, it assumes users who watch to the output of this.
> >
> They could be notified by e-mail, e.g.  This is another detail.
>
>
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