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Unable to change the machine type for my GitHub Codespace #188335
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Select Topic AreaQuestion BodyHello, I’m unable to change the machine type for my GitHub Codespace. Repository: qemu When I started to change machine type, the WEB UI show:
But it was still 16-core / 64GB RAM / 128GB after a moment. Could you please help check whether this is caused by: Thanks. |
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Since you tried dropping from 128 GB → 32 GB, my guess is the workspace (or some big node_modules) is already larger than 32 GB, so Codespaces quietly reverts to a bigger machine to avoid crashing. Check with this:Run df -h inside the codespace and look at the size of the workspaces |
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Hi Shubrath, thanks for the reply! I can change machine type successfully when I delete some files in my container. |
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Since you tried dropping from 128 GB → 32 GB, my guess is the workspace (or some big node_modules) is already larger than 32 GB, so Codespaces quietly reverts to a bigger machine to avoid crashing.
Check with this:Run df -h inside the codespace and look at the size of the workspaces