Hi Jaco, 

* we have more stages
* the binary packages have to go somewhere
* and, temporarily, things are duplicated due to the 17.x / 23.0 profile transition

The third point will eventually go away. However, I'm not sure how much it actually
contributes.

https://www.akhuettel.de/~huettel/plots/mirrors.php

If you look at the plots, the distfiles part is surprisingly large.
Binary packages (17.x and 23.0) and 17.x stages are under "releases".
The 23.0 stages for testing are under "experimental".

Lastly, I'm still working on an automated cleanup for outdated "small arches" binary
packages (i.e. not arm64 and amd64, these are cleaned automatically already).
This just wasn't a priority so far.

Hope this helps.
-a

Am Freitag, 15. März 2024, 09:06:36 CET schrieb Jaco Kroon:
> Hi All,
> 
> I was messing with some storage related caching on some of our hosts 
> this morning when I wondered about how much storage the gentoo mirrors 
> were consuming.  I'm not too worried about the current storage, but I am 
> noticing that the storage requirements are creeping quite a bit (as per 
> attached), and if that growth rate continues it may become a problem 
> *eventually*.
> 
> Can this growth be explained?
> 
> Is it expected to continue at this rate?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jaco
> 


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