[jameswilson620]

All,

I have been working on a server lately and have been running into file limits/quota issues. I have a custom solver with many fileds, written with AUTO_WRITE flag, necessary for debugging. When using this solver on the server, these fields accumulate very fast especially with multiple cores.

I have tested reading a word (AUTO_WRITE or NO_WRITE) from my transport properties and tried to pass this to my IOobject for the fields that i want to selectively write at runtime and have had little success since I cant simply use a word containing the string "NO_WRITE", in place of writing NO_WRITE for the IOobject.

In short, I would like to:

1. at runtime, read a word/string:

writeSwitch "NO_WRITE";

from transportProperties.

2. take this string and use is as an IOoption, for example:

volScalarField sensibleCorrectSource
        (
            IOobject
            (
                "sensibleCorrectSource",
                runTime.timeName(),
                mesh,
                IOobject::NO_READ,
                IOobject::writeSwitch //HERE
            ),
                evapm*cp // for dimensions
);

thereby eliminating the need to edit and recompile every time i want to push a copy of my new solver to the server.

I can also imagine a solution where i have two createFields.H files; one that doesn't write every filed and the other that does. I would like to avoid this if at all possible.

Thank you, James