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[RESOLVED] Our Beehaw instance is experiencing a problem that we can't identify (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Over just 14 days our physical disk usage has increased from 52% to 59%. That's approximately 1.75 GB of disk space being gobbled up for unknown reasons.

At that rate, we'd be out of physical server space in 2 -3 months. Of course, one solution would be to double our server disk size which would double our monthly operating cost.

The 'pictrs' folder named '001' is 132MB and the one named '002' is 2.2GB. At first glance this doesn't look like it's an image problem.

So, we are stumped and don't know what to do.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Imagine lemmy federation was 10x the size it currently is. Would 17,5Gb per 2 weeks be okay? What about 100x? Why is the answer to throw money and space at the problem?

If I look at the list of communities and set it to all, I don't see anywhere near the amount of content that should generate 1,750 mb in just 14 days.

If this is truly all content, and we're struggling with this today, what does the fediverse look like in a year? Five years? What if it approaches 1/100th the size of Reddit? When does a significant cost to federate become a downside of joining the fediverse and the default becomes a whitelist instead of a blacklist?

If this is not content, holy shit that's a lot of text generation. Did you know that 1,750 mb is equivalent to roughly 700,000,000 pages of text? Why is there even 1m pages of text being created in such a short timeframe given how small lemmy fediverse is?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ummm

might be the MLs

we talk

a lot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would be surprised if the full content of all posts by every ML on Lemmy exceeded 1m pages. Text does not take up a lot of space.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

tis a joke, sorry