Math server filling up with errorconv.*.edn files

[brendanarnold]

Our math Docker instance is growing in size, now currently 32GB, and it seems mostly due to files in the root of format errorconv.*.edn where * is some number like 4005751755609769. They are up to 20MB each and there are hundreds of them.

Are they safe to delete? Does anyone know what they are for?

[metasoarous]

Hi @brendanarnold. Yes; Those are safe to delete.

There's a bug which autocorrects itself once there's a server restart, and it logs out the state of the conversation for debugging purposes. However, when a conversation update fails, it retries the computation every time there are new votes, so you can get a lot of these files accumulating.

We definitely need to fix the bug, but also, the space issue has bitten me before, so we should consider modifying this behavior some.

[brendanarnold]

Thanks for the reply, I'll turn this into an issue so we have a record.