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

[Alex Mandel]

On 09/14/2013 07:01 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 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

As long as we can solve this week I will hold off on the disk space
increase.

Thanks,
Alex