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flatironinstitute / mountainsort

Spike sorting software

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excessive disk usage #32

Closed tbenst closed 6 years ago

tbenst commented 6 years ago

Hello, I'm sorting a 7.9GB file w/ 120 channels and noticed that /tmp/mountainlab uses more than 200GB. Also, it left behind >30GB of data after finishing.

magland commented 6 years ago

Yes, we'll need to work on this. There is a complex interplay between RAM usage, disk usage, num. CPUs, num channels, etc.