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AF · Post by AF » Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:40 pm

Black Liger says (12:24 PM 12:24):
tom, have a word with the TA3d people, would ya
I got an email from dreamhost saying their section of the hosting is spewing out random temp files

If its enough for dreamhost to intervene I would seriously look into it.

Disabling the problem should be a higher priority than fixing it while its running. Incurring the wrath of our webhost having prepaid 3 years is not a good idea.

Post by **zuzuf** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:43 pm

hm, strange, maybe it's the websvn cache, it looks huge. If it's not this I don't see what it could be, we don't create temporary files elsewhere.

Post by **zuzuf** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:08 pm

I don't know why but I can't delete any file

. I tried to clean the cache (~22000 files) and the temp dir but it just "freezes" doing nothing.

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:19 pm

hum I wanted the same websvn but if it generates so much files I think I will keep using a trac for my own projects

Doors · Post by **Doors** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:35 am

[quote="zuzuf"]I don't know why but I can't delete any file :( . I tried to clean the cache (~22000 files) and the temp dir but it just "freezes" doing nothing.[/quote]

I also use Dreamhost (Loe the storage, love the bandwidth, I finally hit 1% last month after a couple of years) and have occasionally had files in the FTP that I could do nothing with. What I wound up doing was using the webftp interface in stead of an ftp client like filezilla, it seems to do better with funky files.

Post by **zuzuf** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:14 pm

I'll try that this week end then, from university I can only use ssh from an account on a proxy server

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:54 pm

SSH is all you need

Post by **zuzuf** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:28 pm

yes, but it doesn't want to remove files

, at least it's slow

. I am trying again in verbose mode ... it removes around a file or two per second and there are around 22000 files

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:02 pm

What is the filesystem ?
With so much files it may take some time to remove and to reindex the b-tree (or something else)

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:05 pm

Anyway ...

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$ screen
> rm -rf ./thefolder
ctrl + d

And tomorrow morning :

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screen -r

You may try "find . -exec rm -vf '{}' \;" if you can not do `rm *`

Post by **zuzuf** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:10 pm

it's exactly what I've done

. Now websvn cache is empty but it's still cleaning the temp directory (still from websvn) which contains lots of files too

Post by **zuzuf** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:19 pm

both cache and temp dirs from websvn are cleared

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:20 pm

Just to be sure... did you make an alias to mktemp ?

Post by **zuzuf** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:23 pm

I didn't create any alias there

AF · Post by AF » Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:32 pm

From: DreamHost Customer Support Team <support@dreamhost.com>
Date: 2008/6/29
Subject: [chrbar12 18910558] Message from support.
To: BlackLiger788@gmail.com

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- After reading this response, please consider visiting
- the URL below to comment on its quality. Thanks!
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- http://www.dreamhost.com/survey.cgi?n=1 ... &m=3313501
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Hello,

I was doing some maintenance on your server, Bart, and noticed that your
ta3d user had quite a bit of data stored in the /tmp directory
(approximately 3 GB). This was stored in folders with random names like:

/tmp/wsvn2JITbm

/tmp/wsvn4JLC7t

I have removed these directories to prevent any service outages on the
server (the disk space for /tmp was nearly completely full). Please
carefully review any scripts or sites that are run under the ta3d user to
make sure that any data written to the /tmp directory is responsibly
maintained.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks!

Craig

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To continue this support case, just reply to this email.

Open a new case at: https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tab=support

As a side note /tmp has a maximum size of 3.5GB

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:39 am

Is it possible to weekly/daily clean the websvn cache with a

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find /tmp/where_websvn_is  '(' -type f -and -atime +10 ')' -exec rm -f '{}' \;

or something else ?

jpic · Post by **jpic** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:57 pm

Hi, i can set up Trac on my server for your own development for free, as well as setting up a mailing list if you need or other stuff like that.

Post by **zuzuf** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:09 pm

Hi,

that's interesting, it looks like it's the moment to look at what we need

currently we have:
_a website
_a Trac
_a subversion repository
_an apt repository
_an urpmi repository
(what about a mod repository ?)

having a mailing list would be great, we could change current support email to a mailing list, it would be easier.

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:54 am

I am currently upgrading my servers zuzuf (where the trac is hosted) and the disk space won't be a problem in the future. If you want another webhost or a ML just ask it is not a hard task (for the ML it depends how you want it - <something>@ta3d.org will be great)

milipili · Post by **milipili** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:56 am

And a ML would be far better than a forum which is hard to follow

Post by **zuzuf** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:10 pm

Yes the forums start being used by much more people than just the dev team

. I like the idea of a <something>@ta3d.org

, let's start with:
dev@ta3d.org - for developers only
community@ta3d.org - self explanatory

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