[Box-Admins] Disk space is low on box3

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2014, Chris Cunnington wrote:

> I guess we have two running instances of SS and if we merged them, then we’d only need one. As I understand it, we have source.squeak.org which is the trunk SS. And then we have squeaksource.com, which was
> inherited from (I think it was) Berne. I always thought the box2 image would go to box4. Would it be possible to have one instance for all the files? Trunk projects and non-Trunk? I guess it would seem sort
> of odd to have two instances running in the same box. Perhaps it’s necessary. I don’t know. Can they be conflated? 

It's possible the merge the two instances, which would mean moving all 
projects from source.squeak.org to squeaksource.com, and not the other 
way around.
It would require some manual work because there are duplicate accounts and 
projects. 
The merge would save a few tens of MBs of disk space and memory. But there 
would be some issues with the domains names, because both domain names are 
used in existing images and external links.

But this doesn't help with the current situation, and there's no problem 
running two instances on the same server. I guess this idea deserves a 
separate thread.

Levente

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> Chris 
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>       On Nov 1, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> There's less than 3GB (out of 60) free disk space at the moment on box3, and it keeps decreasing.
> 
> What services are running on box3?
> - squeaksource.com which currently uses about 17GB
> - build.squeak.org - aka jenkins - which uses about 35 GB at the moment
> - apache2 as a frontend for the websites, which uses negligible disk space
> - a yet unused but configured nameserver, which uses negligible disk space
> - a seemingly unused ftp server, which should probably be removed, but it uses negligible disk space anyway
> 
> What are the possible solutions?
> - increase the size of the disk. This can be done by the SFC, if the Board requests it, and the SFC is willing to do it. In theory this can be done on the fly - without stopping the server[1].
> How large should the increase be?
> - It depends on what the plans about jenkins are, but the more the merrier.
> - move squeaksource.com to box4. box3 was planned to host nothing but jenkins. There's plenty of space left on box4, so this is something we can do fairly easily.
> - clean up jenkins. We can keep less build artifacts, delete unused projects (if any), try to remove unused versions of softwares, try to share files using hard links, etc. But this is probably what
> requires the most effort.
> 
> We need a quick decision. In case of an emergency (less than 1GB free space), I'll try to move squeaksource.com to box4.
> 
> Levente
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> [1] https://www.gandi.net/hosting/iaas/disk_resize
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