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

You'd need to take your site down for a while since write access is necessary to that table to avoid duplicates. But yeah, once you've done a vacuum full you could find a way to each day trim old entries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Entries older than 6 months are deleted by default, but as far as I understand it might be safe to manually delete them sooner than that?

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

I'm purging much more aggressively than that an so far so good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thanks! I have space to spare, but I'll probably make it more aggressive to save on backup size