Python causing: IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device: '../results/32766.html' on disk with lots of space

Question

I am running a Python script that is causing the above error. The unusual thing is this script is running on a different machine and is having no problems.

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Answer 1

1. Show where memory is allocated sudo du -x -h / | sort -h | tail -40
2. Delete from either your /tmp or /home/user_name/.cache folder if these are taking up a lot of memory. You can do this by running sudo rm -R /path/to/folder

Step 2 outlines fairly common folders to delete from (/tmp and /home/user_name/.cache). If you get back other results when running the first command showing you have lots of memory being used elsewhere, I advise being a bit more cautious when deleting from those locations.