bitcoin: error: "Disk space is low!", ignoring disk space limitations
Describe the issue
Program ignore disk space limitation, what i set up on start
Can you reliably reproduce the issue?
If so, please list the steps to reproduce below:
- start bitcoin-0.14.2/bin/bitcoin-qt
- select checkbox what you want to limit data to 1024Mb (~6 days)
- bitcoin use all disk space (~16Gb in my case) and throws an error.
Expected behaviour
Program syncing a blockchain using only 1Gb of free space on my hdd
Actual behaviour
Even if i selected to limit disk space to 1024Mb, program used all available space. folder .bitcoin/blocks/
have size of 16Gb.
What version of Bitcoin Knots are you using?
bitcoin-0.14.2.knots20170618-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Machine specs:
- OS: debian 8.8/4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.18-1~bpo8+1 (2017-04-10) x86_64 GNU/Linux
- CPU: i5-i5200
- RAM: 8Gb (2x4Gb exact modules, i.e. model)
- Disk size: 1Tb
- Disk Type (HD/SDD): hdd
Any extra information that might be useful in the debugging process.
2017-07-06 05:53:20 UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000006abd2d638e7b532a9b5938af1449666dead4694b630d2cfa height=278269 version=0x00000002 log2_work=75.356384 tx=30280869 date=‘2014-01-02 11:55:20’ progress=0.128740 cache=318.1MiB(491213tx) 2017-07-06 05:53:20 UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000017bac9a8e85660ad348050c789922d5f8fe544d473368be1a height=278270 version=0x00000002 log2_work=75.356566 tx=30281382 date=‘2014-01-02 12:35:05’ progress=0.128742 cache=318.2MiB(491336tx) 2017-07-06 05:53:20 *** Disk space is low! 2017-07-06 05:53:30 GUI: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 17135, resource id: 19042778, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0 2017-07-06 05:53:30 ERROR: ProcessNewBlock: ActivateBestChain failed 2017-07-06 05:53:30 tor: Thread interrupt 2017-07-06 05:53:30 net thread exit 2017-07-06 05:53:30 torcontrol thread exit 2017-07-06 05:53:30 opencon thread exit 2017-07-06 05:53:30 addcon thread exit 2017-07-06 05:53:31 *** Disk space is low! 2017-07-06 05:53:31 scheduler thread interrupt 2017-07-06 05:53:31 Shutdown: In progress… 2017-07-06 05:53:32 GUI: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 17327, resource id: 19043178, major code: 40 (TranslateCoords), minor code: 0 2017-07-06 05:53:32 ERROR: ProcessNewBlock: ActivateBestChain failed 2017-07-06 05:53:32 msghand thread exit 2017-07-06 05:53:32 Dumped mempool: 3e-06s to copy, 0.085057s to dump 2017-07-06 05:53:32 *** Disk space is low! 2017-07-06 05:53:33 Shutdown: done
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 7 years ago
- Comments: 19 (8 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- Squashed 'src/univalue/' changes from fe805ea74f..07947ff2da 07947ff2da Merge #9: [tests] Fix BOOST_CHECK_THROW macro ec849d9a28 [tests] Fix BOOST_CHECK_THROW macro 31bc9f5a49 Merge #8: Remove unused... — committed to bitcoinknots/bitcoin by deleted user 7 years ago
- Merge #17674: tests: Add initialization order fiasco detection in Travis 1f9d5af4f197e7cc0469a0bb25dcbc51dfa537f4 tests: Add initialization order fiasco detection in Travis (practicalswift) Pull req... — committed to bitcoinknots/bitcoin by deleted user 5 years ago
- Merge #21586: test: Add missing suppression for signed-integer-overflow:txmempool.cpp fad8a97b21014a9b09bfddffcb5cdd92da6669dc test: Add missing suppression for signed-integer-overflow:txmempool.cpp ... — committed to bitcoinknots/bitcoin by deleted user 3 years ago
- Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#28966: test: Add missing CBlockPolicyEstimator::processBlockTx suppression fa9dc92c5362431852a9cfe152c6fdb819710eb4 test: Add missing CBlockPolicyEstimator::processBlockTx suppr... — committed to bitcoinknots/bitcoin by fanquake 7 months ago
- Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#28969: fuzz: Avoid signed-integer-overflow in wallet_notifications fuzz target fab164f342ae089b3a8ccd33e6e3fd6de6e2217e fuzz: Avoid signed-integer-overflow in wallet_notificatio... — committed to bitcoinknots/bitcoin by fanquake 7 months ago
Please confirm that it is fixed in http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bitcoind/misc/0.15.x/tmp-942fcf8e60/
Reproduced the bug, will fix soon.