Bug#924449: lintian: Periodic "out of disk space" errors from lindsay.d.o

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Adam D. Barratt:
> On 2019-03-13 06:40, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Package: lintian
>> Version: 2.10.0
>> Severity: important
>>
>> We seem to be getting regular "out of disk space" errors on
>> lindsay.d.o after resuming the archive-wide processing.
> [...]
>> AFAICT, lintian correctly cleans up old packages during the run.
>> I.e. we are not accumulating disk usage from previous packages in the
>> run.
>>
>> For reference, we currently have 32GB disk available for lintian ("all
>> inclusive").  About 23GB of that is available for checking with our
>> current usage for reports and stats.
> 
> For the record, lintian.d.o filled all the available space on lindsay's
> /srv again in the past day or so.
> 
> I killed a running check for insighttoolkit4, but there was still 23GB
> in scratch/tmp-lintian-lab*, in several folders dating back to the 28th
> of this month. I've removed a few of the older ones and checks were
> progressing again, but it seems like there are still some issues here.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam

Hi Adam,

I added a crontab entry to automatically clean up scratch in case
something like that happened.  Perhaps we want to tweak the limit for
that to have lindsay.d.o recover faster on its own.

Thanks,
~Niels