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My instance increases by 1GB per day (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by skariko@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bearing in mind that posts and comments from communities your users are subscribed to will flow into your instance, not as a reference, but as a copy. So all those “seeding” scripts are terrible ideas in bringing in content you don’t care about and filling up space for the heck of it. If you’re hosting a private instance, you can unsubscribe from things that won’t interest you, thereby slow down the accumulation of contents that are irrelevant and just wasting space.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 2 points 1 year ago

Not to mention the added load to all the servers that are sending you crap you don't even look at.

[–] skariko@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes I had considered that, but considering that ours is not a giant but moderate instance (a thousand subscribers) it seemed exaggerated to get to have 1GB occupied every day.

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