[horde] Garbage collection horde/static directory

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>
>> Citeren Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>>
>>>> I have configured horde to cache Javascript and CSS files in the  
>>>> /static directory with a $conf[cachecssparams][lifetime] and  
>>>> $conf[cachejsparams][lifetime] of 86400 (seconds). Therefor I was  
>>>> surprised to see that there are files well over two months old in  
>>>> that directory. Are files not expired automatically?
>>>
>>> From comments in Horde_LoginTasks_SystemTask_GarbageCollection:
>>>
>>>       /* Clean out static cache files. Any user has a 0.1% chance of
>>>        * triggering weekly (these static files are shared amongst all
>>>        * users). */
>>
>> That may work well on a system with hundreds (or thousands) of  
>> users, but with ten users after a full year there will be a 60%  
>> chance that the garbage collection doesn't run. In the mean time,  
>> about 1.5 GB of files will be generated, wasting space on the tmpfs  
>> system I intended to use for it. I guess I better setup a cronjob  
>> to clean this out at fixed intervals instead.
>
> I have no idea how you get "1.5 GB" as the potential data size.

My mistake. I interpolated the increase in size over the past few  
days, not taking into account that there has been a sharp jump in size  
due to upgrading recently. I'll check in a couple of weeks how things  
are going (I just moved everything to a tmpfs filesystem).

> This data (JS/CSS) is only created once for every version of Horde  
> and/or application that is installed.  Assuming you have several  
> upgrades during the year, that is on the order of *maybe* 10 MB, not  
> 1500.
>
> As a developer, I haven't cleaned my static directory out since  
> April.  Running git, *every* time a theme or javascript file is  
> changed it needs to rebuild the static file.  And my directory is at  
> 27 MB:
>
> slusarz at bigworm % du -BM .
> 27M     .
>
> michael
>
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