# No buffer space available

**URL:** <https://www.evolver.bio/t/no-buffer-space-available/143>\
**Category:** Software\
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.evolver.bio/t/no-buffer-space-available/143 "2019-09-24T18:58:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mabrams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@mabrams](https://www.evolver.bio/u/mabrams)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.evolver.bio/t/no-buffer-space-available/143/1 "2019-09-24T18:58:40Z")

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Hi,

My experiment has stopped twice in the last few days due to an error:

error: [Errno 55] No buffer space available (picture below)  
 ![50%20AM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/evolver/original/1X/0fcd82e5a58d8b63f6d2aa9281bfb8254180c880.png)

Has this happened to anyone? It measures enough time points successfully each time that I left the turbidostat, convinced it was working fine, so I’m unsure what might be causing the system to bug here.

Thanks!  
Melanie

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**Author:** ![bgwong](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/www.evolver.bio/bgwong/32/262_2.png) [@bgwong](https://www.evolver.bio/u/bgwong)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.evolver.bio/t/no-buffer-space-available/143/2 "2019-09-24T21:14:06Z")

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We haven’t encountered this before… Can you try running it as a different experiment? Maybe you’ve run the experiment for so long that theres too much data trying to be read/ graphed.

Brandon

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**Author:** ![mabrams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@mabrams](https://www.evolver.bio/u/mabrams)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://www.evolver.bio/t/no-buffer-space-available/143/3 "2019-09-24T23:17:23Z")

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That would make sense! I’ll give that a shot and update.

Thanks,  
Melanie

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**Author:** ![mabrams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@mabrams](https://www.evolver.bio/u/mabrams)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://www.evolver.bio/t/no-buffer-space-available/143/4 "2019-10-02T02:05:44Z")

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It’s been running fine for the last week as a “new experiment” - for anyone else who is running long-term eVOLVER cultures, this happened at a little 2000 hours (on a relatively old computer).

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**Author:** ![bgwong](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/www.evolver.bio/bgwong/32/262_2.png) [@bgwong](https://www.evolver.bio/u/bgwong)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 2:46am UTC](https://www.evolver.bio/t/no-buffer-space-available/143/5 "2019-10-03T02:46:49Z")

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Wow 2000 hours!!! Thats awesome.