From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93074158041 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:05:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC2F9E29EC; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 189E8E29E1 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mirror storage growth rate From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:05:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <57119c8c-24bd-49b0-b3a1-1ff31113e7f8@uls.co.za> References: <57119c8c-24bd-49b0-b3a1-1ff31113e7f8@uls.co.za> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-9dCthRCcH3D3kVBFlUpT" User-Agent: Evolution 3.50.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Archives-Salt: 19666078-aaa5-4d44-9e94-d23f8a0e33fd X-Archives-Hash: a8411ea521303ff7bc37b4b236ef2a5e --=-9dCthRCcH3D3kVBFlUpT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2024-03-15 at 10:06 +0200, Jaco Kroon wrote: > Hi All, >=20 > I was messing with some storage related caching on some of our hosts=20 > this morning when I wondered about how much storage the gentoo mirrors= =20 > were consuming.=C2=A0 I'm not too worried about the current storage, but = I am=20 > noticing that the storage requirements are creeping quite a bit (as per= =20 > attached), and if that growth rate continues it may become a problem=20 > *eventually*. >=20 > Can this growth be explained? >=20 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. --=20 Best regards, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny --=-9dCthRCcH3D3kVBFlUpT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFGBAABCgAwFiEEx2qEUJQJjSjMiybFY5ra4jKeJA4FAmX0OYoSHG1nb3JueUBn ZW50b28ub3JnAAoJEGOa2uIyniQOah8H/RBntHJq3ziGiXGXfhtU1R2+CgV2zj9E 5liH2fQ+yhnFwvItP5jC22JluaiInokfVeC/1Ht5ISDusLgcIBCv/EitoalyBOZT G9O2K+jZIewsBtNbvplX7yTTTQ3Knz+vteHw1Kc9d5VginGVEYTLjQoEYho2W/u1 en5Qpqh9v6xI04zAPat414cy/khaHC1/FcejjlkIH2pQbi9fRjBX6+ju0397mpt7 PXkSFA0/jDMPkAvVdwGuOyLeBaowtiDVq3p3rJfxOvmfk19JhL4RAOhUCQrHzo1m EvUcBtpT6svya598TrM2INrYSkAF9FFpU7prEfE9Sq6PgbR2YGS0ne4= =gXFn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9dCthRCcH3D3kVBFlUpT--