Reserving Disk Space on iPhone - iphone

I want to be able to 'reserve' a set amount of disk space on my iPhone for my particular application. Before I get flamed I should add this is NOT for a public application.
I assume the simplest way to do this is to actually create blocks of files up to the space I wish to reserve and then delete and use these blocks as necessary.
Is there any filesystem operation which might allow me to do this without actually having to write content for all the space I want to allocate? I'm asking this because I'm not sure lazy the disk space allocator might be.

No, this is something well outside the SDK. You'll have to create your own methods to handle this for you.

iTunes ensures there's at least 200MB available after every sync. It's only the users who don't sync regularly that can cause issues (and even then they are prompted to free up space when they go below 50MB free).
Instead of reserving space, why not simply pop up an alert when disk space is low? (and enter a feature reduced mode)

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How long do image_picker images stay in cache?

Do they stay until the app is uninstalled or cache is cleared, or do the images get deleted at certain times by the os?
It depends on the space available on the device to auto delete.
Please check the link below for more info
Apps are strongly encouraged to keep their usage of cache space below the quota returned by StorageManager#getCacheQuotaBytes(java.util.UUID). If your app goes above this quota, your cached files will be some of the first to be deleted when additional disk space is needed. Conversely, if your app stays under this quota, your cached files will be some of the last to be deleted when additional disk space is needed.
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Context.html#getCacheDir()

Magento 2 website goes down every day and need to restart server

I have one e-commerce website in Magento 2.2.2 and it keeps on going down almost every day. Whenever it goes down, users get site took too long too respond and it never loads. To get web site working again I have to restart the server and then it works.
Total space on the server is 50GB. Out of which the whole website is around 18GB (11GB Media files and then vendor files etc.). Here are things that i cannot figure out why:
a.) The server shows that 33GB has been used although it should show only 18GB has been used. I have checked everywhere and I can't find what is consuming additional 15GB of space. Complete HTML folder is only 18GB.
b.) When I checked log files: it shows the following:
WARNING: Memory size allocated for the temporary table is more than 20% of innodb_buffer_pool_size. Please update innodb_buffer_pool_size or decrease batch size value (which decreases memory usages for the temporary table). Current batch size: 100000; Allocated memory size: 280000000 bytes; InnoDB buffer pool size: 1073741824 bytes.
I have already set innodb_buffer_pool_size to 2GB. But still, this problem keeps coming.
The server is an Amazon EC2 server and Magento is in production mode. Can allocating 100GB instead of 50GB will solve the problem?
Increased innodb buffer pool size to 10GB and logs do not show error anymore but server still goes down every day. Since RAM is only 4GB on our server, can that be the main cause? Because everyone is suggesting at least 8GB RAM?
Try the things below.
Magento2 has big log files and caching system. There may be increase your files in var folder.
But still you have to check whether your site belongs to more than 3000 products with high size images for products and you are storing all these in your server itself.
The suggestions what I can give, If your site have more products which I already mentioned better you have to use CDN for better performance. So the entire image will be process from the third party.
Next is You have to setup cloud flare to avoid the down time errors or customer side effect. You can make your index page to load while the server is down. And obviously you have to write script to restart the site automatically while its down.
In your server side check the memory size for php, you can better to give to 2G.
In Mysql side : Check the whether its making sleep query or not. If its making through your custom extension area ask your developer to optimize the code.
for eg : May be the code passing 'collection' for a single item fetch.
You can use the tool like nurelic
If everything is fine from your developer area please try to optimize the site with making memory limit mysql killing etc.. with your server side.
In the mean while magento is a big platform for e-commerce sector, so it has more area to cover by default. Better to avoid the unwanted modules from your active site, like disable the core modules which you are not using yet.
For an average site Use 16gb RAM,
A restart your mysql to make it effect ?
Also you need to set that buffer up to 20971520000, thats around 20GB.
Magento uses a lot of sessions and cache.

Core Data max storage iPhone

Is there a limit to how much persistent storage a single iPhone app may consume?
What does save set the error argument to if the iPhone hits a per-app limit? What if it hits the hardware limit?
Is it possible to limit the number of objects stored for certain entities? If so, what's a good approach to doing this?
acani, an iPhone app I'm working on, downloads the nearest 20 users from the server and saves them to Core Data. After using the app for a while, the users SQLite table could become rather large. How could I limit it? What should I limit it to? Once this table has reached capacity, how could I make it so that newly downloaded users replace the oldest downloaded users?
Thanks!
Matt
I don't know the answer to the limits questions, but I would think you would want the maximum amount of data to be limited well ahead of that. There are some iPhone apps (games0 which take up a large amount of storage (I think Myst is something line 1.5G). But if you allowed your database to grow to those sorts of sizes you might start to impact on the storage the user has for their other applications.
I'd be inclined to suggest that your application needs to have some sort of database house keeping implemented. You will have to write this. Either automatically triggered or manually triggered by the user. For example you might want to setup a settings option where the user can specify how many "old" users it wants to preserve. If users are being added automatically based on location, what sort of algorythm would a user most likely want to cull the list with?
There is a 2GB limit for apps from the App Store but as far as user data goes, you should be able to basically fill the disk. When that happens, your saves will start to fail, I believe with 'NSFileWriteOutOfSpaceError' bubbled up from the PSC.
As far as limiting entity space, there's no Core Data support for this - you'd have to handle it programatically. You could extend the validation system to check for certain conditions (free space, number of entities) and fail an insert or update if these didn't match your criteria.
If you want to delete old users, just sort the results and delete the first/last one.

Managing iPhone app sandbox tmp directory size for caching images

I have a fairly image-intensive iPhone app, and I'm looking to store remotely downloaded images locally in the app's sandbox tmp directory to avoid unnecessary network requests. Is there a limit to the total size of the files stored in an app's directories, or does the app need to manage that? How would the app determine the size of the files in the tmp directory?
Also, if the app needs to manage the size of the cache, I'd like to implement some kind of cache policy to determine which files get invalidated. How would I go about doing this? If I want to implement a basic LRU caching policy - invalidating files that have been used least recently - it seems like I would need to store access counts for each image and store that on the disk as well, which seems kind of funky. I suppose an easy size management policy would be to simply completely wipe the cache each time the application terminates.
Also, what's the difference between using the directory from NSCachesDirectory versus NSTemporaryDirectory? The Apple docs mention both, but don't talk about which one to use for what type of files. I'm thinking the NSTemporaryDirectory is more like a Unix /var/tmp directory, and used for ephemeral data that can be wiped out at anytime. Seems to me the NSCachesDirectory is more appropriate for storing cached images, since the files could be needed across multiple app lifecycles.
All temporary directories are local to your application; any of them will work and there is no artificial limit to the size of their contents.
A persistent LRU cache policy should be both sufficient and relatively easy to implement.

Is running postgresql in memory a good idea?

Recently we are working on migrate our software from general PC server to a kind of embedded system which use Disk on module (DOM) instead of hard disk drive.
My colleague insist that as DOM could only support about 1 million times of write operation, we should running our database entirely in a RAM disk and backup the database to DOM.
There 3 ways to trigger the backup :
User trigger
Every 30 minutes
Every time when there is some add/update/delete operation in database
As we expecte that user will only modify the database when system is installed, I think maybe postgresql would not write that often.
But I don't know much about postgresql, I can not judge if it worth all this trouble and which approach is better.
What do you think about it?
The problem of wearing out SSDs can be alleviated by whatever firmware the SSD has. Sometimes those chipsets don't do it well, or leave the responsibility to someone else. In this case, you can use a filesystem designed to do wear levelling by itself. UBIFS or LogFS are suitable filesystems.
Assuming that the claim about the DOM write cycles is true, which I can't comment on, then this won't work very well. PostgreSQL assumes that it can write whatever it wants whenever it wants (even if no logical updates are happening), and you have no real chance of making it go along with the 3 triggers that you mention.
What you could do is have the entire thing run on a RAM disk and have some operating system process back this up atomically to permanent storage. This needs careful file system and kernel support. This could work if your device is on most of the time, but probably not so well if it's the sort of thing that you switch on and off like a TV, because the recovery times could be annoying.
Alternatives are using either a more embedded-like RDBMS such as SQLite, or using a storage system that can handle PostgreSQL, like the recent solid state drives, although some SSDs have bogus cache settings that might make them unsuitable for PostgreSQL.