On 08/02/12 15:08, Lars Aronsson wrote:
In December I wrote a cron job on the German toolserver, to collect statistics on external links. It works fine, but to be useful I must collect data over time, so I made a cron job to run each Monday morning.
While my attention was elsewhere, believing that this was running, it turns out the 256 Mbyte quota (!) made all my files 0 bytes in length for all of January. I have now requested and gotten an increased quota, but 6 weeks of data have been lost. And I must devote time to check my quota every week or two.
The /home disk is 600 GB of which 88 GB is free. That's not per user, but for all users together.
This seems more appropiate for /mnt/user-store than /home
It should come as a surprise to most people who donate money to the Wikimedia Foundation, that all of its volunteer developers have to share a disk the size of what is found in any laptop.
It's not set by the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it ask/want/require volunteer developers to use it. It's a convenient service provided by WM-DE.
Not even all volunteer developers have access there.
This is the development system for the world's 6th most visited website in 2012. It quite doesn't live up to my expectations. It feels more like some hobby project in 2002. I'm a great fan of hobby projects, but with the current budget of WMDE and WMF, I thought we would have reached a higher ambition level by now.
It's not a development system for Wiki[pm]edia. It's a tool server. For a testing system for wikimedia, you should look at labs.
You can ask WMF to donate some disks to toolserver, but it shouldn't be held responsible for ts issues (unless caused by them).
PS: quota (1) doesn't show me any restriction...