Hi Gio, You must be right. I didn't fiddle with the configuration file and only changed what was necessary. I believe the default should be set to false because it really does eat space up at a surprising rate. Thinking about it, the admin web could be extended to be able to display contestants outputs, not only the submitted code. On May 26, 2013, at 13:57, "Giovanni Mascellani" <mascellani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Darko. > > Il 26/05/2013 11:54, Pevec, Darko ha scritto: >> There were no real problems, the system worked like a charm. But when >> you're already mentioning it, I naively set "only" 10gb of disk space >> for the virtual competition server and in the middle of our first >> competition ran out of disk space :) I have to ask why does the >> system use up sooo much disk space? I have the feeling that >> everything gets cached at least three times and then nothing gets >> cleaned up. We were using a now obsolete version so I hope this >> recieved some attention. At least give a heads up to people who are >> trying the CMS for the first time. > > As Luca said, I think the problem is probably that you used keep_sandbox > = true, which eats space really quickly. (@cms-dev: why is it on by > default? Couldn't we disable it by default?) > > Caching is too a bit underoptimized, we could work on it (this requires > a bit of care to prevent race conditions, but it shouldn't be too > difficult; the point, as Luca said, is that so far this has never been > an issue to us). > >>> BTW, usual question: any problem if we add your contests to the >>> list of testimonials? >> >> Of course not, that was my original intent. > > Added! > > Gio. > -- > Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Pisa, Italy > > Web: http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani > Jabber: g.mascellani@xxxxxxxxxx / giovanni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >