[SAC] mail.osgeo.org running out of disk space

[Frank Warmerdam]

Markus,

Good catch!

I don't really understand why the attachments in the
osgeojapan-board/attachments are so huge when the osgeojapan-board.mbox
file is only 250MB.  I suspect something when crazy in processing for the
archives.  If I don't hear back from the OSGeo Japan board in a few days,
I'll archive the attachments somewhere and clean them off lists.osgeo.org.
I brief poke into them suggested some of it is slide decks.  Clearing 30GB
of these attachments from the one list will restore the server to only half
full.

Alex, based on that I think we could likely retract the request for server
growth.

Best regards,
Frank



On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> (cc japan.osgeo at gmail.com to notify their mailman administrator)
>
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I have scrubbed some older mailman logs to make a bit of space so we
> have a
> > few days to cope with this situation.
> >
> > I'm inclined to just allocate more space.  The lists server and it's
> archive
> > is a valuable service, and it is not immediately clear that it is out of
> > hand though it is accumulating pretty fast.
>
> Here the Top 20 usages of the OSGeo mailman lists (in MB):
>
> 303    postgis-devel
> 316    mapbender_commits.mbox
> 317    grass-user.mbox
> 324    portugal
> 372    mapserver-users.mbox
> 410    qgis-user
> 418    mapguide-commits
> 434    qgis-developer
> 487    openlayers-users
> 579    gdal-dev
> 736    mapguide-users
> 762    mapbender_commits
> 765    postgis-users.mbox
> 789    grass-dev
> 850    fdo-commits
> 883    grass-user
> 1259    mapserver-users
> 1860    postgis-users
> 1968    grass-commit
> 28885    osgeojapan-board
>
> There are actually huge attachments therein:
> 29G    /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/osgeojapan-board/attachments
>
> The attachment of the "osgeojapan-board" list is unlimited at time:
>
> config_list --outputfile - osgeojapan-board | grep size
> max_message_size = 0
>
> Suggestion: restrict the attachment size to 200k in the
> "osgeojapan-board" list to avoid that the mail.osgeo.org server disk
> collapses.
>
> Markus
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