Disk space overused without doing anything

[Hogion]

Hi,

My node is showing overused space.

I have read here and there in the forum that overused node appaers when a reduction of the storage node capacity is made. Nevertheles, I have made no modification on mynode since months. I so would like to know if this status is “normal” or is there something wrong with my node ?

One explanation could be the particular configuration of the capacities of my node (free, trach, overused → see picture).

Thanks in advance.

Hogion

[jammerdan]

How can such overusage happen?

[Screenshot_2022-04-07_080059] I read here that overusage may be displayed when allocated disk space is reduced and data not yet deleted. But this is not the case here it is more the opposite, I kept increasing disk space by demand. I never decreased it. This is worrying because if I allocate certain amount of disk space it should not get inflated suddenly. What if there was no more space left on the disk?

[Hogion]

@Hogion

My node is showing overused space.

Everything went back to normal. Overused space is now down to zero.

Hogion

[Bivvo]

is 1.7 TB the max space available on your HDD or do you have any buffer on the hardware?

[Craig]

Was your node restarted not long before this overuse was observed? Apparently the filewalker process that can/will run at node start recalculates the values with better accuracy and may find that a node is overallocated. This will clear with time as further ingress is stopped, delete requests come in, and trash collection is run. Seems this (among other items) contributes to why it is suggested to only share a portion of your disk and not 100%. See the posts directly linked here from the thread jammerdan previously linked to.

How can such overusage happen?

this is why its recommended to keep a good amount of extra capacity just incase this happens… in the future i’m sure we will be able to go closer to the theoretical max. nodes are continually deleting and getting new ingress… 500MB is ½ a GB so you are about 1/3600th off in relation to your capacity. keeping stuff within such narrow limits is quite a challenge in most things. and these numbers are also estimates i think… every time the filewalker is run a node counts all files and their siz…

[Hogion]

@Bivvo

is 1.7 TB the max space available on your HDD or do you have any buffer on the hardware?

The HDD is used at around 92%. I don’t know if the HDD has a buffer.

[Hogion]

@Craig

Was your node restarted not long before this overuse was observed?

It seems my node did not restart but I’m not 100% sure about it.

[Bivvo]

@Hogion

The HDD is used at around 92%. I don’t know if the HDD has a buffer.

Great to hear. That means you don’t have to worry about your scores.