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My instance increases by 1GB per day (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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hello, on my server on which only Lemmy is running, I don't understand why it fills up space all the time. Every day it increases by about 1GB thus risking reaching the limit after a short time.

It is not the images' fault because there is a size limit for uploading and they are also transformed into .webp.

The docker-compose file is the one from Ansible 0.18.2 with the limits for loggin already in it (max-size 50m, max-file 4).

What could it be? Is there anything in particular that I can check?

Thanks!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Might want to check out this issue. Honestly, I'm not sure what exactly the activity table consists of or what it does but it's been eating through everyone's disk space pretty fast.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

well, indeed it could be just that. I just checked and it's size is 15GB ๐Ÿ˜ฑ

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The activity table is every message that is sent or received between your instance and the rest of the fediverse; posts, comments, votes, admin actions, etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Extra config options always result in more complexity, so I would strongly prefer to change the hardcoded pruning interval instead.

Why would that be the case?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not too sure as well. Most people running their own Lemmy instance probably want more config options to fit their needs. I like how much I can configure with pictrs straight from the docker compose file for example.