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False excessive disk usage, how to explain DF-system and DF-docker contradiction?
At Linux server I checked disk usage by df command and obtained big /var/lib/docker usage
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 4078144 0 4078144 0% /dev
tmpfs 817484 82900 734584…

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Python - high disk usage in SumTree
I've encountered some weird behaviour of my python program. Basically when I tried to create adn fill a SumTree of length larger than 1000, my disk usage increases a lot to ~300MB/s then the programme died.
I'm pretty sure there's no file r/w…

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Tablesize and array text[] in postgresql
Ok, here is the question.
I have some table which I create like
create table maths(
id1 bytea
, id2 bytea
, comment text[]
)
there's more columns but that's insignificant. After creation I insert there ~500k rows and modify them by…

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WinSock2.2 stops responding when i do disk operations
i've write a socket class in C++, the design is event-based, that means, every 64 players it will create a new thread to handle these sockets. My problem is, when i start reading a file, or write, or even copy and paste, it says "Server.exe is not…

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Store images economically in android app
My app uses images from a URL and I want to reduce resources usage for both server and client.
I wonder if the Android SDK already offers something for this (if there's some standard way to do it) or I just have to figure it out.
What I have in mind…

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MySQL add column without adding any physical data / increasing storage usage?
I have this large table (hundreds of thousands records) to which a column must be added. The column only stores boolean (tinyint 0/1).
The goal is to avoid extra storage usage for already existing records, because they will have NULL/0 by default…

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Disk usage - du showing different results
I am confused with du command because it gives different result for files.
[root@gerrh6-05 sathish]# du -s saravana/admin/sqlnet.ora
4 saravana/admin/sqlnet.ora
[root@gerrh6-05 sathish]# du -h saravana/admin/sqlnet.ora
4.0K …

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A table with a XML field with null value, consumes some space? How much?
There are an "official benchmark" or a simple rule of thumb to decide when space or performance will be affected?
My table have many simple and indexed fields,
CREATE TABLE t (
id serial PRIMARY KEY,
name varchar(250) NOT NULL,
...
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Is there a shell script that can monitor partition usage?
When I used to use cPanel it would send me an email when any partitions were approaching full. Is there a script out there that monitors df output that I can put in a cronjob?
Thanks

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How to free up unused space after deleting documents in ElasticSearch?
When deleting records in ElasticSearch, I heard that the disk space is not freed up. So if I only wanted to keep rolling three months of documents in a type, how do I ensure that disk space is reused?

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Android Dev - Strict Mode Problems
I am having an issue with StrictMode i have the following AsyncTask
class pruneDiskCacheTask extends AsyncTask{
@Override
protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
pruneRecursive(DiskCache);
return…

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How to intentionally slow down a python script so I can have it running forever in the background while I work?
So basically I have a list of 300 values and different averages associated with each one.
I have a for-loop that generates a list of ten of these values at random, and writes it to excel if certain conditions are met based on their averages.
The…

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How to show the CPU and disk usage in a JProgressBar?
I want to display the current cup usage and disk usage in two separate JProgressBars. And also it should update second by second. How to do it using java? I am quite new to java programming, so please give me some code example.
Thanks in advance.

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MySQL record disk-usage calculation | Am I right?
I am trying to estimate the real disk-usage required space for each record of my table in MySQL RDBMS.
The table has a structure like this:
ID INT 4 byte;
VARCHAR(34) 34 byte;
INT 4 byte;
INT(5) 4 byte;
INT 4 byte;
INT 4 byte which is also a…

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Is there a Tool to View Disk Usage on a Team Foundation Server DB
We have a TFS installation on a machine that is close to going out of support life and we're planning on migrating to a new machine in a couple of months. However in the meantime we are getting really low on disk space and (for whatever reason) we…

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