Damn that setup is no joke. 21GB in a few months initially sounded like a lot to meā¦ but I decided to math it out. Lets say the 20gb was across 1,2 or 3 monthsā¦
Time till 1tb would fill up.
+------+-----------+----------+----------+
| | 3 months | 2 months | 1 month |
| 1 TB | ~12 years | ~8 years | ~4 years |
+------+-----------+----------+----------+
That data usage is looking pretty reasonableā¦ Even 20gb per month is something that wouldnāt be too hard to keep up with and Iām sure eventually thereāll be a way to clean up old posts that no one on your instance saved or commented on if you are trying to save space. Iād start to worry if disk usage was hitting closer to 40gb a month.
i wish there was a way to show the growth over time, because obviously some is taken up by the OS, then all the initial setup of lemmy. Iāll keep an eye on it as it grows.
Grafana + something like influxdb+telegraf would do the trick. It sounds like you donāt have metric gathering like that on your instance? If thatās the case Iām surprised you donāt when youāre running with a full server rack haha.
