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lemmy high storage usage (lemmy.emphisia.nl)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by youpie@lemmy.emphisia.nl to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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My lemmy instance seems to be using a lot of storage, I am the only one using it and for like 10 minutes a day. it's currently using about 122 gb, after about 3 months of usage

 ~/l/volumes> sudo du -d 1 -h  .
47G	./pictrs
75G	./postgres
0	./lemmy-ui
122G	.

seeing the usage of other ppl this seems really big? Am i doing someting wrong? edit: it is also using a lot of memory, i dont know exactly how much but it seems to be most of my system's available ram (16 gb)

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago

It’s all the images being cached from other servers. If you haven’t uploaded any images to your instance, you can just delete the content of the pictrs folder.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

This will also delete all the user and community avatars though, as sadly Lemmy does not distinguish these from other images.

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

Wasn’t it a single user instance?

[-] youpie@lemmy.emphisia.nl 1 points 1 year ago

And if i did upload images on my instance haha

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 year ago

Then you would also have to delete those images. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to delete the cache of images that pictrs stores :(

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