[Server-devel] [XSCE] khan_assessments.zip download fails

Tim Moody tim at timmoody.com
Fri Nov 20 15:38:31 EST 2015


the easiest workaround is to have enough memory.  I bumped the vm up to 1.5G RAM and the problem disappeared, but this could come up if you put a large storage on a machine with small memory and want to run kalite with the assessments.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xsce-devel at googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce-
> devel at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Vonau
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 3:29 PM
> To: xsce-devel at googlegroups.com; 'server-devel' <server-
> devel at lists.laptop.org>; Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com>
> Subject: RE: [XSCE] khan_assessments.zip download fails
> 
> google foo is good today, open ansible issue with possible workaround:
> https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9512
> 
> > On November 20, 2015 at 2:11 PM Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I don't think it is on extraction as that is a later task in a
> > different .yml
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: xsce-devel at googlegroups.com [mailto:xsce-
> > > devel at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Vonau
> > > Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 3:09 PM
> > > To: xsce-devel at googlegroups.com; server-devel <server-
> > > devel at lists.laptop.org>; Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [XSCE] khan_assessments.zip download fails
> > >
> > > tmpfs is handled by a systemd file, think you can turn that off, but
> > > /tmp won't auto cleanup on reboot, so there might be some crud that
> > > builds up.
> > > Think that is occurring on extraction, can we set the working
> > > directory somehow?
> > >
> > > > On November 20, 2015 at 1:27 PM Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > the kalite playbook attempts to download the 500M
> > > > khan_assessments.zip using get_url to/opt/schoolserver//downloads,
> > > > which has plenty of space.  but it appears to use /tmp as a
> > > > working directory which does not have enough space.
> > > > I have read that tmpfs uses half of memory, so the problem will
> > > > only occur on a machine with smaller amounts of memory.  Is there
> > > > a way to increase the size of tmpfs temporarily?  I don't see an
> > > > entry in fstab.
> > > >


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