[cfarm-users] Disk on gcc112 is almost full

[Simon Marchi]

On 2017-06-27 07:56 PM, David Edelsohn via cfarm-users wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Segher Boessenkool via cfarm-users
> <cfarm-users at lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:02:49AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
>>> the disk on gcc112 is almost full:
>>>
>>>  Type  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>  xfs   1.8T  1.7T  143G  93% /home
>>>
>>> So it would be nice if anyone could delete old unused cruft.
>>
>> It would be nice if everyone did that more often, too, not just when
>> disks are full and they want to use the system.
>>
>>> (An alternative might be a cron job that automatically
>>> deletes old *.o files after a while (say two months).)
>>
>> No way.  Maybe some people do not care about their files, but most do.
> 
> The GNU Compile Farm accounts are a privilege, not a right.  One of
> the assessments is "plays nice with others."  Privileges can be
> withdrawn.

I think everyone using the farm has good faith, but it's difficult to
proactively monitor our used disk space on each server (that's not what
I think about when I first get up in the morning).  An idea that's less
radical than periodically deleting people's files would be to periodically
mail users how much they are using on each server.  If I received this:

  You are currently using:

   456M on gcc111
   2.6G on gcc112
   ...

it would prompt me to go remove what I don't need.

Simon