Ugh, apparently yesterday a bot visited my Forgejo instance and queried everything, which caused Forgejo to create repo archives for everything. Git on the instance is 2.1 GB in size, but the repo archive filled up everything and is 120 GB. I really didn’t expect such a spike.

That meant that it filled up the whole hard drive and the server and all the services and websites on it went down while I was sleeping.

Luckily it seems that just deleting that directory fixes the problem temporarily. I also disabled the possibility of downloading archived from the UI but I’m not sure if this will prevent bots from generating those archives again. I also can’t just make the directory read only because it uses it for other things like mirroring, etc too.

For small instances like mine those archives are quite a headache.

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      I have nothing against bots per se, they help to spread the word about my open source code which I want to share with others.

      It’s just unfortunate that forgejo fills up the hard drive to such an extend and doesn’t quite let you disable this archive feature.

      • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Are you saying if someone (such as a scraper) tries to download a snapshot, forgejo makes a disk file containing the snapshot, sends it, and keeps it around forever? That sounds crazy to me and I’d open a bug or try to fix it.