@dessalines@lemmy.ml how much space does lemmy.ml use?
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Pretty much nothing, postgres volumes folder is ˜500MB, but that really doesn't change much. Remember that text data really doesn't take up much space: all of english wikipedia is about 20 GB.
Picture storage in pictrs is the main issue. The only thing I could suggest there, is to use either a remotely running pictrs, or to use sshfs to mount the pictrs volumes folder to a remote machine (non-VPS) that has a ton of storage.
You could also delete old pictures. I think mastodon does this.
I'm not familiar with pictrs and how it works, but software I wrote which contains thumbnails and full copies of every image on the fediverse along with fingerprints, full database metadata, etc, doesn't take up even a tiny fraction of that space. So...
mastodon only does this for remote content!
TIL! What's your mastodon acct username?
sorry I am not saying, I want to keep the identities separate.
Same deal here lol
good! It's better to be safe than sorry ^^
I do
- remove pictrs temp files
/tmp/magick-*
- recompress overly large image files
- truncate docker logs which frees up a lot of space
recompress overly large image files
When I was looking at some very old posts from feddit.de they had terrible jpg compression artifacts, is this the reason?
Wow yeah that is pretty fast growth!
@wintermute@feddit.de how much space does our server use?
Right now 13GB
I just saw in the Lemmy matrix chat that you cleared up a lot of space by truncating logs. Where are those?
you could truncate -s 0 /var/lib/docker/containers/*/*-json.log
(which might break logs currently being written),
configure logging via docker-compose.yml
, or even better /etc/docker/daemon.json
Thanks. I'll have to look up how to configure daemon.json. I just truncated the logs for now. I wish I had known about that earlier! It cleared up about 15 GB of space.
Wow, logs take up a ridiculous amount of space!
you could also free up space on pictrs docker exec -it YOUR_PICTRS_CONTAINER /bin/sh -c "rm /tmp/magick-*"
Hmm, tried that. It said no magick-*
files exist.
hm, maybe this problem has been fixed
I created this instance with docker directly instead of using Ansible. Not sure if that could be why.
okay that's not too bad.