Torch installation failure: “No space left on devi

Question

Cannot reinstall most recent Torch. Cloning fresh repo and attempting to install via install.sh which performs a series of make calls results in:

[ 75%] Building NVCC (Device) object lib/THC/CMakeFiles/THC.dir/generated/THC_generated_THCTensorMathCompareTDouble.cu.o
[ 76%] Building NVCC (Device) object lib/THC/CMakeFiles/THC.dir/generated/THC_generated_THCTensorMathPointwiseDouble.cu.o
[ 77%] Building NVCC (Device) object lib/THC/CMakeFiles/THC.dir/generated/THC_generated_THCTensorMathCompareDouble.cu.o
[ 78%] Building NVCC (Device) object lib/THC/CMakeFiles/THC.dir/generated/THC_generated_THCTensorMathReduceDouble.cu.o
[ 80%] Building NVCC (Device) object lib/THC/CMakeFiles/THC.dir/generated/THC_generated_THCTensorMaskedDouble.cu.o
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/mathcalls.h(234) (col. 12): catastrophic error: error while writing generated C++ file: No space left on device

1 catastrophic error detected in the compilation of "/tmp/tmpxft_0001f39b_00000000-5_THCTensorMaskedDouble.cpp4.ii".
Compilation terminated.
fatbinary fatal   : Could not write file '/tmp/tmpxft_0001efb5_00000000-2_THCTensorMathCompareTHalf.fatbin.c'
CMake Error at THC_generated_THCTensorMathCompareTHalf.cu.o.cmake:267 (message):
  Error generating file
  /local/pavels/torch/extra/cutorch/build/lib/THC/CMakeFiles/THC.dir/generated/./THC_generated_THCTensorMathCompareTHalf.cu.o

There is not enough space on /tmp and this is a remote machine so I don't have sudo access to increase it. Is there any workaround for this? Basically what I want to know if there is any way to force make store compilation files somewhere not on /tmp?

Answer 1

It appears that I just needed to create tmp dir and set it as TMPDIR env variable.

mkdir $HOME/tmp
export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp

Answer 2

It depends on what tmp is.

Sometimes, as an optimization, tmp is mounted in a ramdisk. You can take a look at that using mount or in /etc/fstab.

If this is not the case, then make sure the disk partition where /tmp is has enough space, or delete other unused temporary files.

BleachBit, packaged in many distros, can help you freeing space.