René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"GitHub Code Quality: IOException \"No space left on device\"","articleBody":"Hi, first of all, thanks for your continued work on GitHub infrastructure including Actions and CodeQL, really great!\n\nI just enabled [GitHub Code Quality](https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-github-code-quality-in-public-preview/) in a medium-sized monorepo of ours, and the new action immediately failed during the `Perform CodeQL Analysis` step of the `Analyze (javascript-typescript)` job, running into low disk space issues.\n\nThis is a well-known issue with GitHub Actions runners, seemingly because of a reduction in available disk space on the runners in 2024:\n\n- https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10386\n- https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/9344\n- https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26488\n- https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26493\n\nErrors reported in the logs below include:\n\n1. `Severe disk cache trouble (corruption or out of space)`\n2. `Failed to write item to disk`\n3. `IOException \"No space left on device\"`\n4. `Warning: The Actions runner is running low on disk space (664.8 MB available).`\n\nJob: `Analyze (javascript-typescript)`\nStep: `Perform CodeQL Analysis`\n\n```\nRun github/codeql-action/analyze@v3\n  with:\n    category: /language:javascript-typescript\n    upload-database: false\n    output: ../results\n    upload: always\n    skip-queries: false\n    ...\n    wait-for-processing: true\n    token: ***\n    matrix: {\n    \"language\": \"javascript-typescript\",\n    \"category\": \"/language:javascript-typescript\",\n    \"build-mode\": \"none\",\n    \"runner\": \"[\\\"ubuntu-latest\\\"]\"\n  }\n    expect-error: false\n  env:\n    CODE_SCANNING_REF: refs/heads/main\n    CODE_SCANNING_BASE_BRANCH: \n    CODE_SCANNING_IS_ANALYZING_DEFAULT_BRANCH: true\n    CODE_SCANNING_WORKFLOW_FILE: ...\n    CODEQL_ACTION_FEATURE_MULTI_LANGUAGE: false\n    CODEQL_ACTION_FEATURE_SANDWICH: false\n    CODEQL_ACTION_FEATURE_SARIF_COMBINE: true\n    CODEQL_ACTION_FEATURE_WILL_UPLOAD: true\n    CODEQL_ACTION_VERSION: 3.31.2\n    JOB_RUN_UUID: f2ed4aa8-134b-4876-9080-a782525ac55e\n    CODEQL_ACTION_INIT_HAS_RUN: true\n    CODEQL_ACTION_ANALYSIS_KEY: dynamic/github-code-scanning/codeql:analyze\n    CODEQL_WORKFLOW_STARTED_AT: 2025-11-01T07:54:35.059Z\n    CODEQL_RAM: 6920\n    CODEQL_THREADS: 2\n    CODEQL_PROXY_HOST: \n    CODEQL_PROXY_PORT: \n    CODEQL_PROXY_CA_CERTIFICATE: \n    CODEQL_PROXY_URLS: \nWhile resolving threads, found a cgroup CPUs file with 2 CPUs in /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset.cpus.effective.\nNot performing diff-informed analysis because we are not analyzing a pull request.\nExtracting javascript\nFinalizing javascript\nRunning queries for javascript\n\n  ...\n\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/DuplicateDependency.ql.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/DependencyMismatch.ql.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/IncompatibleService.ql.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/MissingExplicitInjection.ql.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/RepeatedInjection.ql.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/UseNgSrc.ql.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/DOM/DuplicateAttributes.ql.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/DOM/MalformedIdAttribute.ql.\n  [1/99 eval 10m19s] Evaluation done; writing results to codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/DependencyMismatch.bqrs.\n  [2/99 eval 10m19s] Evaluation done; writing results to codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/IncompatibleService.bqrs.\n  [3/99 eval 10m19s] Evaluation done; writing results to codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/DuplicateDependency.bqrs.\n  [4/99 eval 12m16s] Evaluation done; writing results to codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/MissingExplicitInjection.bqrs.\n  [5/99 eval 12m16s] Evaluation done; writing results to codeql/javascript-queries/AngularJS/RepeatedInjection.bqrs.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/DOM/PseudoEval.ql.\n  [6/99 eval 4m21s] Evaluation done; writing results to codeql/javascript-queries/DOM/PseudoEval.bqrs.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/Declarations/ArgumentsRedefined.ql.\n  [7/99 eval 23.4s] Evaluation done; writing results to codeql/javascript-queries/Declarations/ArgumentsRedefined.bqrs.\n  Starting evaluation of codeql/javascript-queries/Declarations/AssignmentToConst.ql.\n  Oops! A fatal internal error occurred. Details:\n  com.semmle.util.exception.CatastrophicError: An error occurred while evaluating num#AbstractPropertiesImpl::MkAbstractProperty#c6cb71fa/3@i19#1ab1e1wp\n  Severe disk cache trouble (corruption or out of space) at /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/javascript/db-javascript/default/cache/pages/38/6c.pack: Failed to write item to disk\n  The RA to evaluate was:\n  \n      {3} r1 = INVOKE HIGHER-ORDER RELATION construct\u003cAbstractPropertiesImpl#5654241c::TAbstractProperty,0\u003e ON \u003cAbstractPropertiesImpl::MkAbstractProperty#dom#d09da573#prev_delta\u003e\n      return r1\n  \n  (eventual cause: IOException \"No space left on device\")\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.MetaPipelineInstance.wrapWithRaDump(MetaPipelineInstance.java:212)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.MetaPipelineInstance.exceptionCaught(MetaPipelineInstance.java:182)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ThreadableWork.handleAndLog(ThreadableWork.java:593)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ThreadableWork.doSomeWork(ThreadableWork.java:410)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.RecursiveLayer$RecursiveWork.doWork(RecursiveLayer.java:514)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ThreadableWork.doSomeWork(ThreadableWork.java:396)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ExecutionScheduler.runnerMain(ExecutionScheduler.java:710)\n  \tat java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)\n  \tat java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)\n  \tat java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)\n  Caused by: Severe disk cache trouble (corruption or out of space) at /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/javascript/db-javascript/default/cache/pages/38/6c.pack: Failed to write item to disk\n  (eventual cause: IOException \"No space left on device\")\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.RelationCacheImpl.lambda$create$0(RelationCacheImpl.java:87)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskStore.put(OnDiskStore.java:136)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.interfaces.HashBasedCache.putIfPresent(HashBasedCache.java:29)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.evict.Evictor$ItemHandle.writeToDisk(Evictor.java:723)\n  \tat java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(Unknown Source)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.evict.Evictor.writeSelectedItems(Evictor.java:1059)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.evict.Evictor.reduceMemoryUsage(Evictor.java:459)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.MemoryManager.reduceArraySpace(MemoryManager.java:342)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.RigidArrayAllocator.allocateArrays(RigidArrayAllocator.java:178)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.RigidArrayAllocator$1.\u003cinit\u003e(RigidArrayAllocator.java:216)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.RigidArrayAllocator.preallocate(RigidArrayAllocator.java:211)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.MemoryManager.preallocate(MemoryManager.java:491)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.PagePrimitives.parseItem(PagePrimitives.java:90)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskStore.prepareLoading(OnDiskStore.java:275)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskStore.getItem(OnDiskStore.java:193)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.evict.CacheChainPartialMetadata.getItem(CacheChainPartialMetadata.java:62)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.interfaces.HashBasedCache.getItem(HashBasedCache.java:44)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.RelationCacheImpl.getPage(RelationCacheImpl.java:291)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.PagedRelation.getPage(PagedRelation.java:93)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.IntArrayMatcher.switchPageTo(IntArrayMatcher.java:158)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.IntArrayMatcher.locate(IntArrayMatcher.java:429)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.IntArrayMatcher.locate(IntArrayMatcher.java:447)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.IntArrayMatcher.matchTuple(IntArrayMatcher.java:522)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.UnionRelation$UnionMatchCache.matchTuple(UnionRelation.java:135)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.TuplePool$ComplexNumberer$NumberSink.addTuple(TuplePool.java:658)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.BaseIntArrayRelation.map(BaseIntArrayRelation.java:88)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.AbstractRelation.deduplicateMap(AbstractRelation.java:138)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.TuplePool$ComplexNumberer.lambda$doNumbering$0(TuplePool.java:444)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.writers.RelationWriter.withSink(RelationWriter.java:72)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.TuplePool$ComplexNumberer.doNumbering(TuplePool.java:440)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.TuplePool.lambda$doNumbering$1(TuplePool.java:245)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.TuplePool$ComplexNumberer.doWithBranchLock(TuplePool.java:540)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.TuplePool.doNumbering(TuplePool.java:233)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.ast.IMBConstructDatatype.doNumberingStreaming(IMBConstructDatatype.java:165)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.ast.IMBConstructDatatype$1.evaluateSink(IMBConstructDatatype.java:142)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.HOPStep.generateTuples(HOPStep.java:57)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.SimpleHeadStep.lambda$forwardInitialize$0(SimpleHeadStep.java:32)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.HeadEndDispatcher.headEndWork(HeadEndDispatcher.java:75)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.PipelineState.doSomeWork(PipelineState.java:88)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.PipelineInstance.doWork(PipelineInstance.java:79)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ThreadableWork.doSomeWork(ThreadableWork.java:396)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ChainingWork.doWork(ChainingWork.java:30)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ThreadableWork.doSomeWork(ThreadableWork.java:396)\n  \t... 6 more\n  Caused by: java.io.IOException: No space left on device\n  \tat java.base/sun.nio.ch.UnixFileDispatcherImpl.write0(Native Method)\n  \tat java.base/sun.nio.ch.UnixFileDispatcherImpl.write(Unknown Source)\n  \tat java.base/sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.writeFromNativeBuffer(Unknown Source)\n  \tat java.base/sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.write(Unknown Source)\n  \tat java.base/sun.nio.ch.IOUtil.write(Unknown Source)\n  \tat java.base/sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.write(Unknown Source)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.IntArray.writeToChannel(IntArray.java:223)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.IntArray.writeTo(IntArray.java:149)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.ConcreteIntArrayRelation.serialiseToDisk(ConcreteIntArrayRelation.java:51)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.PagePrimitives.serialiseItem(PagePrimitives.java:75)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.PagePrimitives.serialiseItem(PagePrimitives.java:26)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskPack$Appender.writeItemToSelectedLocation(OnDiskPack.java:337)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskPack$Appender.selectLocationAndWriteItem(OnDiskPack.java:310)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskPack$Appender.writeFromRam(OnDiskPack.java:255)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskPack.store(OnDiskPack.java:224)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskStore.put(OnDiskStore.java:126)\n  \t... 47 more\n  \n  Error: Error running analysis for javascript: Encountered a fatal error while running \"/opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL/2.23.3/x64/codeql/codeql database run-queries --ram=6920 --threads=2 --expect-discarded-cache /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/javascript --min-disk-free=1024 -v\". Exit code was 100 and error was: Oops! A fatal internal error occurred. Details:\n  com.semmle.util.exception.CatastrophicError: An error occurred while evaluating num#AbstractPropertiesImpl::MkAbstractProperty#c6cb71fa/3@i19#1ab1e1wp\n  Severe disk cache trouble (corruption or out of space) at /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/javascript/db-javascript/default/cache/pages/38/6c.pack: Failed to write item to disk\n  The RA to evaluate was:\n  \n      {3} r1 = INVOKE HIGHER-ORDER RELATION construct\u003cAbstractPropertiesImpl#5654241c::TAbstractProperty,0\u003e ON \u003cAbstractPropertiesImpl::MkAbstractProperty#dom#d09da573#prev_delta\u003e\n      return r1\n  \n  (eventual cause: IOException \"No space left on device\")\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.MetaPipelineInstance.wrapWithRaDump(MetaPipelineInstance.java:212)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.pipeline.MetaPipelineInstance.exceptionCaught(MetaPipelineInstance.java:182)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ThreadableWork.handleAndLog(ThreadableWork.java:593)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ThreadableWork.doSomeWork(ThreadableWork.java:410)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.RecursiveLayer$RecursiveWork.doWork(RecursiveLayer.java:514)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ThreadableWork.doSomeWork(ThreadableWork.java:396)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.scheduler.execution.ExecutionScheduler.runnerMain(ExecutionScheduler.java:710)\n  \tat java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)\n  \tat java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)\n  \tat java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)\n  Caused by: Severe disk cache trouble (corruption or out of space) at /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/javascript/db-javascript/default/cache/pages/38/6c.pack: Failed to write item to disk\n  (eventual cause: IOException \"No space left on device\")\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.RelationCacheImpl.lambda$create$0(RelationCacheImpl.java:87)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskStore.put(OnDiskStore.java:136)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.interfaces.HashBasedCache.putIfPresent(HashBasedCache.java:29)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.evict.Evictor$ItemHandle.writeToDisk(Evictor.java:723)\n  \tat java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(Unknown Source)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.evict.Evictor.writeSelectedItems(Evictor.java:1059)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.evict.Evictor.reduceMemoryUsage(Evictor.java:459)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.MemoryManager.reduceArraySpace(MemoryManager.java:342)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.RigidArrayAllocator.allocateArrays(RigidArrayAllocator.java:178)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.RigidArrayAllocator$1.\u003cinit\u003e(RigidArrayAllocator.java:216)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.RigidArrayAllocator.preallocate(RigidArrayAllocator.java:211)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.alloc.MemoryManager.preallocate(MemoryManager.java:491)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.PagePrimitives.parseItem(PagePrimitives.java:90)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskStore.prepareLoading(OnDiskStore.java:275)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.disk.OnDiskStore.getItem(OnDiskStore.java:193)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.evict.CacheChainPartialMetadata.getItem(CacheChainPartialMetadata.java:62)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.byhash.interfaces.HashBasedCache.getItem(HashBasedCache.java:44)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.RelationCacheImpl.getPage(RelationCacheImpl.java:291)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.caching.PagedRelation.getPage(PagedRelation.java:93)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.IntArrayMatcher.switchPageTo(IntArrayMatcher.java:158)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.IntArrayMatcher.locate(IntArrayMatcher.java:429)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.IntArrayMatcher.locate(IntArrayMatcher.java:447)\n  \tat com.semmle.inmemory.relations.In\n  Warning: The Actions runner is running low on disk space (664.8 MB available).\n```\n\n## Suggested solutions\n\nThe `github/codeql-action` could either / both:\n\n1. Use less disk space\n2. Clean up unused tools to recover disk space eg:\n   - https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/2875#issuecomment-1163363045\n   - https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10386#issuecomment-2269439585","author":{"url":"https://github.com/karlhorky","@type":"Person","name":"karlhorky"},"datePublished":"2025-11-01T10:13:46.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/3265/codeql-action/issues/3265"}