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Message 19494 - Posted: 21 Jan 2006, 15:52:47 UTC

Can someone please give me an estimate of how much hard drive space Climatepredition.net requires for a workunit?

I am asking because my current unit is only 7.28% complete and is currently taking up 543.80 MB.

I\'m running a sulphur cycle unit on Windows XP Pro SP2 using BOINC 5.2.13

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Message 19495 - Posted: 21 Jan 2006, 16:11:59 UTC
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Somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 GB.

It will grow to about 1GB when the first phase is done (at 20% / trickle 24), later it will still grow some but not that much anymore.

I\'m not sure how much it needs temporary while it compresses stuff as then (for a while) compressed and not yet compressed files sit there side by side
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Message 19504 - Posted: 21 Jan 2006, 19:58:48 UTC

I\'m afraid the requirements are significant. While there is some compression at the end of each phase, right before the end of phase 5, the disk space taken up by a single run has grown to 2.4 GB. At the end of run, it is compressed down to .9 GB.
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Message 19551 - Posted: 22 Jan 2006, 20:51:55 UTC - in response to Message 19504.  

Thanks to you both,

I just wanted to be sure I gave it enough room to operate in. My preferences are set to allow 6GB for all my BOINC activity, as I am attached to multiple projects, but if needed I can push that up to 15GB. Looks like I will have plenty of room.

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Message 19589 - Posted: 23 Jan 2006, 23:09:31 UTC - in response to Message 19495.  

Somewhere between 1.2 and 1.4 GB.

It will grow to about 1GB when the first phase is done (at 20% / trickle 24), later it will still grow some but not that much anymore.

I\'m not sure how much it needs temporary while it compresses stuff as then (for a while) compressed and not yet compressed files sit there side by side


Ok i have a question. Why is my sulphur WU taking up 1.37GB of HD space at 1.18% done. Atleast thats what it says CPDN is taking up under the disk tab in Boinc Manager. I only have 1 CPDN unit.
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Message 19593 - Posted: 24 Jan 2006, 0:35:03 UTC - in response to Message 19589.  

Ok i have a question. Why is my sulphur WU taking up 1.37GB of HD space at 1.18% done. Atleast thats what it says CPDN is taking up under the disk tab in Boinc Manager. I only have 1 CPDN unit.

Check in the

climateprediction.net/\"experimentname\"/dataout/tmp

directory. If there are a lot of files with a .cpdn extension, then you are recording graphics to that directory. \"G\" toggles on capturing graphics files as well as toggling that function off. My guess is, it is toggled on. If that is the case, toggle it off, then delete *.cpdn in that tmp directory.
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Message 19594 - Posted: 24 Jan 2006, 0:37:00 UTC
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Message 19595 - Posted: 24 Jan 2006, 0:56:26 UTC - in response to Message 19593.  

Ok i have a question. Why is my sulphur WU taking up 1.37GB of HD space at 1.18% done. Atleast thats what it says CPDN is taking up under the disk tab in Boinc Manager. I only have 1 CPDN unit.

Check in the

climateprediction.net/\"experimentname\"/dataout/tmp

directory. If there are a lot of files with a .cpdn extension, then you are recording graphics to that directory. \"G\" toggles on capturing graphics files as well as toggling that function off. My guess is, it is toggled on. If that is the case, toggle it off, then delete *.cpdn in that tmp directory.


Ok so just dont delete anything else in that folder right? but anything with a .cpdn extension can be erased?
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Message 19602 - Posted: 24 Jan 2006, 4:09:37 UTC - in response to Message 19595.  

Ok so just dont delete anything else in that folder right? but anything with a .cpdn extension can be erased?

Yes, that\'s right.
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