# Agent puts thousands of files in data folder

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/agent-puts-thousands-of-files-in-data-folder/3764>\
**Category:** Percona Cloud Tools\
**Created:** [September 23, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/agent-puts-thousands-of-files-in-data-folder/3764 "2014-09-23T09:21:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Emanuelis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@Emanuelis](https://forums.percona.com/u/Emanuelis)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/agent-puts-thousands-of-files-in-data-folder/3764/1 "2014-09-23T09:21:28Z")

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percona-agent 1.0.7 puts thousands of files named mm\ __, qan\__ and sysconfig\_\* in /usr/local/percona/percona-agent/data and fills up the disk.

Agent restart helps.

percona-agent.log has nothing interesting.

How can we solve this?

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**Author:** ![mirfan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/mirfan/32/16890_2.png) [@mirfan](https://forums.percona.com/u/mirfan)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 8:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/agent-puts-thousands-of-files-in-data-folder/3764/2 "2015-04-03T08:25:20Z")

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This usually occurs when agent fails to send data to cloud. Agent collects all data in data folder and sends it to cloud.  
Do you have to restart every time ? Is data appearing properly through web ? Can you please show me the complete percona agent log along with /usr/local/percona-agent/data directory listing.