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Forgejo fills up hard drive with repo-archives (piefed.jeena.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by jeena@piefed.jeena.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Ugh, apparently yesterday a bot visited my Forgejo instance and queried everything, which caused Forgejo to create repo archives for everything. Git on the instance is 2.1 GB in size, but the repo archive filled up everything and is 120 GB. I really didn't expect such a spike.

That meant that it filled up the whole hard drive and the server and all the services and websites on it went down while I was sleeping.

Luckily it seems that just deleting that directory fixes the problem temporarily. I also disabled the possibility of downloading archived from the UI but I'm not sure if this will prevent bots from generating those archives again. I also can't just make the directory read only because it uses it for other things like mirroring, etc too.

For small instances like mine those archives are quite a headache.

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[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Not saying this is an option for you, only that I kept my forgejo instance private to avoid dealing with this AI crawler bullshit. I hope you find a good solution.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I understand, but the whole point of me hosting my instance was to make my code public.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

And I totally understand that. These AI crawlers really suck.

[–] omegabyte@piefed.zip 2 points 10 months ago

I appreciate that you make your stuff public. I can't find the specific repos right now but I know I've referenced your code for various fediverse things I've dabbled in over the last year or so.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you looked at Codeberg?

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 18 points 10 months ago

Codeberg is a instance of forgejo, I run my own instance because I don't want to be dependent on others.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was just about to install Gitea. Any substantial differences between the two?

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't know the specifics but forgejo is a gitea fork. There was/is some controversy around gitea governance and movent towards prioritizing a closed source paid/private versions of gitea.

Again, I don't know details, just very broad strokes. I chose forgejo because it's under active Foss development and I didnt want to deal with potentially going with gitea and then having to abandon it later for whatever reason might develop.