Soooo....The server was running low on space
Daylene Alford
January 07, 2013 January 07, 2013
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The server ran out of disk space the other day and I decided it was time I sat down and figured out why. After doing a bit of digging I found the culprit.
The color calculator script automatically generates images and stores those images for later use. This saves server resources. Today I discovered that the folder where the images are stored had grown to 13G. Yes, that is correct that is G as in Gigabits! No wonder the server was running low on space. I did some quick figuring and there were over 100,000 images in that folder. Each one a different combination of patterns. How cool is that? So anyway for a quick fix I deleted the images folder and it will start to refill on its own. It took close to two years for all of the images to be generated.
Did I just let my geek show?
Yes, but it was nice!
Yes, but it was nice!