My apologies if anyone gets this twice. I forgot to hit "reply all" the first time.
----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org, townsley@bimidr.org Received: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 21:17:42 -0800 Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] install disk space
On Mar 4, 2004, at 20:26, Luke Townsley wrote:
What is the minimum disk space requirement to install and run MediaWiki? I attempted to install it on a VDS Linux/Apache server hosted by Jumpline with 500mb of space and at install, it returned an error message and it also seems to have used roughly 1500mb mainly in a tmp (500mb) file and in a /proc/kcore (1,000mb) file before giving up. I deleted the tmp which seemed to have been created by the file manager, but I have no idea what to do with the /proc/kcore file.
The scripts take up about 3 megabytes (including all the localizations). Other than that you should just need the database (space will vary with the amount of data you put in) and a handful of temp files for session data.
/proc/kcore isn't a real file; it's a virtual file used to access your system's memory. Nothing in /proc is an actual file on your disk drive, so you can discount the "size" of such files.
If you're using 500mb in temp space, then something's probably very very wrong. What kind of tmp file is this? What's it called? What's in it?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
BtW, I am installing version 1.1.0 of MediaWiki. The tmp file in question is /var/tmp/fm42791078495739 I am guessing it was created by the file manager/online interface that jumpline uses. Perhaps if I tried to install it without the web interface? I tried installing MediaWiki again (through the web interface again) after deleting the tmp file but setting the timeout to 600 seconds instead of 20. It still timed out and gave exactly the same results.
I haven't been able to open the tmp file to see what is in it. The properties box gives me the following information: fm42791078495739 Type: Location: Size: File /var/tmp 518651904 bytes (519163904 allocated) Device: 2057 Inode: 11944570 Links: 1
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