Huge thank you! I had a feeling something like this was going on but had no idea how to troubleshoot/fix.

My pictrs and lemmy containers were the biggest between 3-8 GB (significant for a smaller instance) after a couple weeks.

For anyone who finds this, in addition to what OP provided here, another command I found helpful (since I am a docker noob 🙂) to find the name of the currently running containers:

docker ps --format '{{.Name}}'

UPDATE:

If anyone else is running into consistently rising disk I am pretty sure this is my issue (RE logs running with no cap):

https://lemmy.eus/post/172518

Trying out ^ and will update with my findings if it helps.

💖 man ima dumb dumb. Most excellent, thank you!

Thanks!. Yeah I gotta figure that out. Something funky going on.

There are several communities in there atm but I’m getting some “odd” federation behavior.

If you are interested in federating there are two ways I have seen it work (again, warning, note that it is NSFW 😀 ):

• use your search feature on your main instance and enter !butt_frenzy@booty.world then you can subscribe

• or, from your main instance, alter your url to: {your main instance}/c/butt_frenzy@booty.world so for example if your main instance is lemmy.ml that would be: https://lemmy.ml/c/butt_frenzy@booty.world

^ butt_frenzy is one of the communities on booty.world for example.

Gotta be a better way, and I am probs doing something wrong. Will work on it. Open to feedback if anyone has any advice though haha.

Thanks.

Noice many thanks! I’ll give it a shot.

Oh snap, yes I am using Digital Ocean.

Looks like you might have forgotten to add the link, mind chucking that in when you get a chance?

Thanks, this seems like a good lead as well.

Cool thanks! Last thing for now, and then I’ll go do some debugging.

Dumb Q: The lemmy install includes an SMTP server correct? Like I don’t need to use an external service for that?

Nice! Thanks your mention of the config.hjson makes me wonder lol. I probably goofed that too.

I did the ansible install which I believe just adds orchestration on top of the Docker install. I’ll ssh in and try the docker-compose command.

Do you know, if I did goof the email config, can I just tweak the config locally and then re-run ansible? Or do I need to do some manual tweaks to the deployed solution? Or I suppose at this point it might be easier to just blow the instance away and start fresh.