Selenium Server: Windows Service: The Hard Disk Filled Up After a Few Days

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I have used NSSM to create a Windows Service for my Selenium Server instance (v 2.48.2 of the Selenium Server Standalone JAR).

I have also set the service to log on as a Local System Account, and have allowed the service to interact with the desktop. When I have used a particular account for the service, instead of the local system account, Internet Explorer would not launch.

I noticed that after a few days, the hard disk would start filling up with temporary internet files at the following location:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

After a few days, I saw that the size of this folder was ~30 GB. I have had to manually clear out this folder.

I've used the following command to create the service:

nssm install seleniumhub java -jar C:\selenium-server\selenium-server-standalone-2.48.2.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=C:\selenium-server\chromedriver.exe -Dwebdriver.ie.driver=C:\selenium-server\IEDriverServer.exe

Has anyone else run into this issue?

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javawindowsseleniumservice
Are you calling driver.dispose() in the end of each run? – Guy
I am not seeing the dispose() method in the Java APIs. I am currently using FirefoxDriver, ChromeDriver, InternetExplorerDriver, and RemoteWebDriver; none of them have a dispose() method on them – zormega
C# code sorry. In java its driver.quit(); – Guy
Ahh ok. Yeah, I'm calling driver.quit(); – zormega

2 Answers

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It's a common occurrence that you clean the tmp directory because everytime a new profile is made, a folder is put in by Chrome/IE/FF that stores information about that session.

You should write a simple script to clear this folder after every test suite is run. Something along this pseudo-code will work:

for $dir in %TMP%:
    rm -fr $dir
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So in order to avoid this problem, running the Selenium Server as a startup process, instead of as a service, seems to not fill the hard disk up.