On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > > kcrisman, > > You've discovered the tangle of tickets on this I alluded to > above. ;-) > > 1. You can delete all your old snapshots to reclaim disk space (or > relieve quota limits in a shared environment). I used some > incantation with find, xargs, and rm (carefully) which cleared them > out for every worksheet all at once. Like Jason I had a few gigabytes > worth across about 100 worsheets from about a year's worth of use. > > 2. I think the performance hit comes from backing up nb.sobj, from > the original in .sage/sage_notebook to a collection of backups > in .sage/backups The default timing on this is very frequent IIRC. > My nb.sobj is about 30 MB, but my home directory is on a portable USB > drive that I shuttle around, so I noticed the delays due to these auto- > saves perhaps sooner than others might. I'm not sure what it takes to > shrink this file. I set the autosave interval to be about 20 minutes > and am keeping fewer backups (two instead of three) and no longer see > the regular slowdowns as I work in the notebook.
I set the autosave interval on sagenb.org to once per *day*. Note that even with a long autosave, you loose nothing if you properly shutdown the server before exiting, since it essentially never crashes. > 3. When I quit a server that has been running the notebook, it takes > about 2 minutes for a clean shutdown, which I assume is the same sort > of action. True. > > The original patch at http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5371 > has some comments in it about extending the default save times if you > wnt to take immediate action. Some of the names of these autosave > variables are mildly misleading, though this is corrected in some of > the patches (above) addressing the situation. > > Rob > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
