[chavez-tech] Chavez is runing out of disk space

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Chris,

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Chris wrote:

> > But what can we do about it? Kick some sites off? Impose
> > quotas? Can we talk to the individual sites and get them
> > to reduce their disk usage? (I doubt that would work).
> 
> I don't think we can ask sites not to add video and audio
> (these are the big users of space), these are the sites
> sizes:
> 
>   6.5G    ./ch.indymedia.org
>   16G     ./www.indymedia.org
>   5.5G    ./euskalherria.indymedia.org
>   37G     ./www.indymedia.org.uk
>   15M     ./synde.indymedia.org

How many mirrors do each of these sites have? I.e. which would suffer the 
most from the removal of their mirror from Chavez?

> So, with disk usage growing at around 2Gb per month the
> amount of time the life of the box can be extended by
> removing sites (this isn't a very accurate estimate --
> removing the UK site would make the space last a lot
> longer since it wouldn't be growing at 2Gb per month):
> 
>   ch.indymedia.org            3 months
>   www.indymedia.org           8 months
>   euskalherria.indymedia.org  2.5 months
>   www.indymedia.org.uk        18 months
> 
> For the hassle involved I think moving the UK or the
> global site are the only ones that make sense...

I agree, kicking www.indymedia.org.uk off seems to make the most sense.

> unless they were all to move -- I don't know what the existing one costs 
> but it might be possible to get a new one for not much more cash and 
> migrate? For example (I can't remember what the current one costs):

I can't afford another server. Is there another fund to pay for one?

> For the UK site these are the sizes of the audio / video
> directories ( /var/www/www.indymedia.org.uk/media/ ):
> 
>   7.9G    ./2007
>   5.8G    ./2006
>   3.2G    ./2005
>   1.6G    ./2004
>   1.8G    ./2003
>   668M    ./2002
>   95M     ./2001
>   24M     ./2000

Why is www.indymedia.org.uk hosting so many old videos? Could they be 
encouraged to move them to the new media server?

> The other files that take up quite a bit of space are
> photos ( /var/www/www.indymedia.org.uk/images/ ):
> 
>   2.0G    ./2007
>   1.9G    ./2006
>   1.6G    ./2005
>   807M    ./2004
>   792M    ./2003
>   292M    ./2002
>   108M    ./2001
>   17M     ./2000

As above.

> I have attached a list of rpm's installed, does anyone use emacs?

Not me, but removing software seems unlikely to make any appreciable 
difference.

Cheers, Chris.
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