I’m self-hosting the docker containers and I noticed the pictrs directory is steadily growing because of the cached images. Does anyone know if it gets cleaned up automatically or are hosters running scripts to clean it up after a certain amount of time? The install guides make no mention of it from what I can find.

  • a253040@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 years ago

    IIRC, I’ve read comments elsewhere that pictrs caches for 6 months, but I can’t independently verify. I hope this gets a broader answer because I’m still on the fence about getting an instance set up for myself and some small communities.

    • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.ioEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I believe the activity table in Postgres is retained for 6 months (although I’m purging mine daily) and the pict-rs cache is 168 hours (1 week).

      • a253040@midwest.socialEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I knew I read something was kept for 6 months ;)

        Glad to see that even here, the best way to get the right answer on the internet is to provide a wrong one.

      • Quindius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        How do you purge daily? Also, does that delete any post history or anything in a similar vein?

        • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.ioEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I’m running the following SQL, although I’m not actually sure it’s as necessary since 0.18.3. It doesn’t delete any post history or anything.

          DELETE FROM activity WHERE published < NOW() - INTERVAL '1 day';