[Mesa-users] MESA installation data folder

[Evan Bauer]

Hi Amber,

Yes, I believe this is normal. Most of the size increase is due to the extensive new EOS tables that are shipped for the PTEH and ELM options, as you can see from the eosDT_data entry that you posted.

Evan


> On Mar 30, 2018, at 7:06 PM, Francis Timmes via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
>> My total folder size is ~18gb now, FYI.
>> Is this normal? 
> 
> yes. mine is ~20gb but i have some cache stuff in there.
> maybe go to 50gb on the virtual to allow room to run?
> 
> fxt
> 
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> 
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>> On Mar 30, 2018, at 6:47 PM, amber lauer via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>> 
>> My total folder size is ~18gb now, FYI. I just redownloaded it and compiled again as a test with the same result.
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:46 PM, amber lauer <amber.lauer at tunl.duke.edu> wrote:
>> Looking back at version 9793 I see that the entire installation takes about 5.7gb. I recently upgraded to 10398 via svn (the folder is about 2gb larger via this method than downloading the zip, but it's way quicker). 
>> 
>> Here's an output of the folder sizes for /mesa/data:
>> 
>> 64K	./rates_data/rate_tables
>> 21M	./rates_data/suzuki
>> 175M	./rates_data/cache
>> 250M	./rates_data
>> 20M	./star_data/zams_models
>> 18M	./star_data/white_dwarf_models
>> 76K	./star_data/plot_info
>> 4.0K	./star_data/planet_models_without_cores
>> 4.0K	./star_data/planet_models_with_inert_cores
>> 2.0M	./star_data/very_low_mass_grey_models
>> 2.0M	./star_data/very_low_mass_COND_tau100_models
>> 392K	./star_data/very_low_mass_COND_tau1_models
>> 44M	./star_data
>> 332K	./net_data/nets
>> 340K	./net_data
>> 2.8M	./chem_data
>> 760K	./colors_data
>> 2.7G	./eosDT_data/cache
>> 12G	./eosDT_data
>> 283M	./eosPT_data/cache
>> 525M	./eosPT_data
>> 53M	./kap_data/cache
>> 491M	./kap_data
>> 336M	./ionization_data/cache
>> 431M	./ionization_data
>> 1.1M	./atm_data
>> 
>> Is this normal? I specifically ask this because I'll have to redo the VMESA virtual machine because I only designed it to have a 20gb hdd. 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Amber Lauer
>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>> Triangle University Nuclear Lab
>> Duke University
>> amber.lauer at tunl.duke.edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Amber Lauer
>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>> Triangle University Nuclear Lab
>> Duke University
>> amber.lauer at tunl.duke.edu
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