My lemmy instance seems to be using a lot of storage, I am the only one using it and for like 10 minutes a day. it’s currently using about 122 gb, after about 3 months of usage
~/l/volumes> sudo du -d 1 -h .
47G ./pictrs
75G ./postgres
0 ./lemmy-ui
122G .
seeing the usage of other ppl this seems really big? Am i doing someting wrong? edit: it is also using a lot of memory, i dont know exactly how much but it seems to be most of my system’s available ram (16 gb)
It’s all the images being cached from other servers. If you haven’t uploaded any images to your instance, you can just delete the content of the pictrs folder.
This will also delete all the user and community avatars though, as sadly Lemmy does not distinguish these from other images.
Wasn’t it a single user instance?
And if i did upload images on my instance haha
Then you would also have to delete those images. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to delete the cache of images that pictrs stores :(