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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    1 year 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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      1 year 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).

      • 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';