allenai / allenai/cached_path

Add cache limits

Ouverte
#258 0 commentaires 0 réactions 0 personnes assignées Voir sur GitHub
Feature request
Langage dominant
Python
Étoiles
47
Forks
22
Métriques de merge des PR
Aucune PR mergée en 30 j

Description

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Currently the size of the cache directory can grow unbounded. This can cause problems (e.g. disk full) and require manual intervention (e.g. manually deleting the entire cache directory).

**Describe the solution you'd like**
Add size/age limits to the cache directory and the ability for users to enforce those limits by deleting the least recently used data with a function call. Similar to the "reduce_size" function in joblib.memory ([link](https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generated/joblib.Memory.html#joblib.Memory.reduce_size)).

**Describe alternatives you've considered**
A cron job to automatically remove the entire cache direction is a hack and seems like overkill.

**Additional context**
None

Guide de contribution

Ouvrir le guide de contribution

Évaluation

Cette issue n'a pas encore été évaluée.

Recevez les nouvelles issues par e-mail

Un résumé court des issues GitHub adaptées aux débutants.