On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, graham etherington (TSL) <graham.etherington@sainsbury-laboratory.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Nate, We are getting quite large discrepancies between 'Size on disk' and 'Usage' numbers, so I've run the scripts/set_user_disk_usage.py script. When I run it, some of the 'old usage' numbers are negative numbers, e.g. User1 old usage: -226417886261, new usage: 139894688577 User2 old usage: 263698720473, new usage: 68974834617 User3 old usage: 397108490587, new usage: 406950046043 User4 old usage: -57441684074, new usage: 7536071906
This seems a little strange (how can a user have a 'minus' usage?). Is there an explanation for this?
Negative numbers here are probably a sign of integer overflow (something too large for a signed 32 bit integer would be my guess). Peter