All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

Post by waheoo » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 11:13 PM UTC

_carbyau_ wrote: post #272

woko wrote: post #190

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Hoarders will buy the rest of it. During the 2-month lockdown a year ago, I would purchase 4 frozen pizzas at a time when I had a chance to buy them, because I was so upset that I could not buy one when I wanted a single one during the 2 previous weeks, because of hoarders who had been faster than me. People think of toilet papers, but it is not just that. Pasta, rice, flour, yeast, plenty of useful things went missi…

I noticed a weird thing here. All the regular pasta rapidly disappeared. Rice also was gone. But "Gluten Free"(I am a GFer) pasta - in this case, pasta made from rice - was fine! I amused myself with the idea that people:"would rather starve to death than eat that GF crap." :-)

Post by duxup » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 11:14 PM UTC

njovin wrote: post #335

victor9000 wrote: post #163

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Perfect example of the tragedy of the commons. If individuals don't create these balloon files then they won't be able to use the file server when they need it, yet by creating these balloon files the collective action depletes the shared resource of its main function.

This is similar to how some government agencies retain their budgets. At the end of the budget period they've only spent 80% of their allocated budget, so they throw out a bunch of perfectly good equipment/furniture/etc. and order new stuff so that their budget doesn't get cut the following year, rather than accepting that maybe they were over-budgeted to begin with. Rinse, repeat, thus continuing the cycle of wastin…

Post by epakai » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 11:15 PM UTC

ghostly_s wrote: post #94

pritambarhate wrote: post #89

All my servers have an alarm when disk space goes above 70%. It sends an email every hour once the disk usage goes above 70%. Never had a server go down because of disk space issue after adopting this practise. Also one of the main reasons server disks go full is generally log files. Always remember to "logrotate" your log files and you will not have this issue that much. Yes one more thing, for all user uploaded fil…

Is there a package I can install to set this up?

Post by dasudasu » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 11:17 PM UTC

tinus_hn wrote: post #114

rgj wrote: post #79

In the mid nineties I worked in a research institute. There was a large shared Novell drive which was always on the verge of full. Almost every day we were asked to clean up our files as much as possible. There were no disc quota for some reason. One day I was working with my colleague and when the fileserver was full he went to a project folder and removed a file called balloon.txt which immediately freed up a few p…

Same thing happens with floating licenses, if they are too scarce, people open the program first thing in the morning ‘just in case’ and keep a license reserved all day.

Post by nicbou » Thu, Mar 25, 2021, 11:17 PM UTC

legulere wrote: post #125

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