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Pipenv unlimited cache size

See original GitHub issue

Issue description

Huge cache size (at ~/.cache/pipenv)

Expected result

Cache to contain only the most recently used packages.

Actual result

Cache seems to keep growing in size with no restrictions (16 GB), while Pip cache on the other hand is < 2GB

Steps to replicate

du -ah ~/.cache/pipenv --max-depth=1 | sort -hr 16G /home/pc/.cache/pipenv/http 16G /home/pc/.cache/pipenv 185M /home/pc/.cache/pipenv/wheels 74M /home/pc/.cache/pipenv/hash-cache 12M /home/pc/.cache/pipenv/pkgs 16K /home/pc/.cache/pipenv/selfcheck.json 16K /home/pc/.cache/pipenv/depcache-py3.6.json 16K /home/pc/.cache/pipenv/depcache-py3.5.json 12K /home/pc/.cache/pipenv/depcache-py3.7.json

du -ah ~/.cache/pip --max-depth=1 | sort -hr 1.9G /home/pc/.cache/pip 1.8G /home/pc/.cache/pip/http 124M /home/pc/.cache/pip/wheels 16K /home/pc/.cache/pip/selfcheck.json

$ pipenv --support

Pipenv version: '2018.11.26'

Pipenv location: '/home/pc/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pipenv'

Python location: '/usr/bin/python3.6'

Python installations found:

3.7.0: /usr/local/bin/python3.7m
3.7.0: /usr/local/bin/python3.7
3.6.6: /usr/bin/python3.6m
3.6.6: /usr/bin/python3.6
3.5.2: /usr/bin/python3.5m
3.5.2: /usr/bin/python3.5
2.7.12: /usr/bin/python2.7
2.5.6: /usr/bin/python2.5

PEP 508 Information:

{'implementation_name': 'cpython',
 'implementation_version': '3.6.6',
 'os_name': 'posix',
 'platform_machine': 'x86_64',
 'platform_python_implementation': 'CPython',
 'platform_release': '4.15.0-46-generic',
 'platform_system': 'Linux',
 'platform_version': '#49~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 12 17:45:24 UTC 2019',
 'python_full_version': '3.6.6',
 'python_version': '3.6',
 'sys_platform': 'linux'}

System environment variables:

XDG_SEAT
XDG_SESSION_ID
DISPLAY
UPSTART_JOB
JOB
COLORTERM
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID
DEFAULTS_PATH
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME
LOGNAME
INSTANCE
JAVA_HOME
SHELL
PATH
IM_CONFIG_PHASE
QT4_IM_MODULE
CLUTTER_IM_MODULE
XMODIFIERS
XDG_SESSION_PATH
J2REDIR
SSH_AUTH_SOCK
UPSTART_EVENTS
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP
GDMSESSION
XAUTHORITY
QT_IM_MODULE
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
MANDATORY_PATH
UPSTART_SESSION
DESKTOP_SESSION
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
GTK_IM_MODULE
IBUS_DISABLE_SNOOPER
GTK_MODULES
PWD
USER
DERBY_HOME
UPSTART_INSTANCE
TERMINATOR_UUID
HOME
QT_ACCESSIBILITY
ORBIT_SOCKETDIR
XDG_SEAT_PATH
XDG_DATA_DIRS
LANGUAGE
COMPIZ_CONFIG_PROFILE
XDG_GREETER_DATA_DIR
LANG
GTK2_MODULES
GPG_AGENT_INFO
SHLVL
WINDOWID
J2SDKDIR
XDG_VTNR
GDM_LANG
SESSIONTYPE
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP
XDG_SESSION_TYPE
GNOME_KEYRING_PID
QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON
TERM
OLDPWD
ZSH
PAGER
LESS
LSCOLORS
LS_COLORS
LC_CTYPE
ANDROID_HOME
_
PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK
PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
PIP_SHIMS_BASE_MODULE
PIP_PYTHON_PATH
PYTHONFINDER_IGNORE_UNSUPPORTED

Pipenv–specific environment variables:

Debug–specific environment variables:

PATH: /home/pc/bin:/home/pc/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin:/home/pc/Android/Sdk/platform-tools:/home/pc/Android/Sdk/tools:/home/pc/Android/Sdk/build-tools/23.0.2/:/home/pc/Downloads/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools:/home/pc/Downloads/android-sdk-linux/tools
SHELL: /usr/bin/zsh
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
PWD: /home/pc

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:34
Comments:12 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

9reactions

m-spyratoscommented, Apr 8, 2020

@uranusjr Why would this be a low priority enhancement? I’m new to Python here and I decided to use pipenv. Next day my hard drive was gone with 15GB of it occupied by these cache files.

If this is not going to be fixed any time soon, then a warning on the top of the README file ought to be placed.

8reactions

abdelrahman-tcommented, Apr 9, 2020

I use these three lines as a replacement for pipenv using pip-tools

create virtual environment

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

pin requirements

pip-compile requirements.in --generate-hashes

install pinned requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Project seems to be dead, Why this project is recomended at https://packaging.python.org/guides/tool-recommendations/ is truely beyond me!

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