Temp space full, but the dataset is small

[patrick_mcauliffe]

I'm curious if this is happening to others or anyone else has noticed a difference on the newer versions (2023.x and up).

I have a relatively small data set. 

Its a list of nodes and their distances from one another.

This list feeds into a batch macro along with a criteria set (two nodes out of the list).

The batch macro runs a Dijkstra algorithm in the Python tool to find the shortest total path between the criteria set, given the whole list of nodes and distances.

The macro doesn't output anything to the parent workflow. Within the macro, after the Python tool runs it outputs the dataframe directly to a CSV.

In total, the whole workflow has maybe about 1.5 GB of data flow through it.

Are you getting the picture I'm painting?  Its small data.

But, somehow Alteryx is not flushing the temp directory and its just accumulating.

I have a secondary, 500 GB NVMe drive that is dedicated solely to the Alteryx temp space.

Over the course of an hour and a half I had this workflow run several times which amounted to maybe 200 batch iterations.

That alone filled up my entire 500GB temp drive.

Every single run put a full data snapshot into the temp space.

I've had larger workflows run more iterations and never filled up that drive before.

What makes this more odd to me is that closing the workflow alone did not clear the temp files.

I had to close all Alteryx sessions running on my desktop before any of the temp space cleared. 

And there were still some I had to delete by hand.

I don't see anything specific in the Windows Event logs that would indicate a Windows issue.

Anyone else started seeing this issue recently?