From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mirror storage growth rate
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:05:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3de2829a0abe5ded3d5b57e4ad2f2af346eb0fc.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57119c8c-24bd-49b0-b3a1-1ff31113e7f8@uls.co.za>
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On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 10:06 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> 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?
>
I guess the simplest explanation is that software is growing larger,
and in the end we should be expecting to adding new packages faster than
removing dead ones. Add to that the grotesque inefficiency of modern
programming languages such as Go and Rust.
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-15 8:06 [gentoo-dev] mirror storage growth rate Jaco Kroon
2024-03-15 12:05 ` Michał Górny [this message]
2024-03-15 15:40 ` Hoël Bézier
2024-03-15 16:15 ` Maciej Barć
2024-03-15 18:21 ` Andreas K. Huettel
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