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. 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. 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
