[SAC] Fwd: Munin Notification mail.osgeo.org Disk usage in percent

[Alex Mandel]

On 10/05/2013 01:25 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi SAC,
> 
> I spent a while yesterday to clean up the mail server disk (again).
> 
> Now out of space once more.
> http://webextra.osgeo.osuosl.org/munin/osgeo.org/mail.osgeo.org-df.html
> 
> One problem is that there are zillion of replicated attachments in
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/osgeojapan-board/attachments/
> 
> which continue to accumulate. While I had limited the attachment size to 200k:
> 
> config_list --outputfile - osgeojapan-board |grep size
> max_message_size = 200000
> admin_member_chunksize = 30
> digest_size_threshhold = 30
> 
> ... the attachments are in the multi MB size.
> 
> Gosh, I just realize that the value might be given in kb, not byte.
> ok, I'll change that right away.
> Done.
> 
> config_list --outputfile - osgeojapan-board |grep size
> max_message_size = 350
> admin_member_chunksize = 30
> digest_size_threshhold = 30
> 
> I have done some de-duplication in the attachments folder, now we have
> 3.2 GB free.
> So let's see what happens next.
> 
> Markus
> 
> 

Thanks Markus, I had been wondering why it was growing so fast despite
the previous change. Hopefully that explains it. Has anyone heard back
from the Japan members about why they keep sending such huges files on
their list?

Thanks,
Alex