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.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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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.

Wouldn’t initiatives like rust-dev[0] help with that? I know that Debian is also packaging Rust this way[1].

[0]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Rust/rust-dev
[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/Rust

Hoël

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Copy: [email protected] (Jaco Kroon)

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Lastly, I'm still working on an automated cleanup for outdated "small arches" binary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. M�rz 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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Andreas K. H�ttel
[email protected]
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, comrel, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge
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