Disk usage update problem

[GuillaumeRZ]

It stay as "Last updated : 01/07/2025"...

[nebulon]

Do you see any errors in the system logs at /home/yellowtent/platformdata/logs/box.log when you trigger a refresh of the disk usage?

[SansGuidon]

my 2 cents: the last time I hit that refresh button it took a few minutes to refresh the disk usage, so I had to be patient and "hit F5" a few times. it's confusing to free some disk space and yet read a different story in the system info, I'm not sure how often this data is refreshed, but it would be nice if the data was accurate without the need of manually refreshing

[nebulon]

This is currently only refreshed once a day, since it is a tradeoff between accuracy and causing a lot of disk I/O for no reason 99% of the time. Thing is if the disk is not too fast and/or the server has a large disk, it just takes very long on linux to get detailed disk usage info besides the capacity+used+free overview per filesystem/partition.

So this is not a technical thing we can implement, but more what we optimize for.

[jdaviescoates]

@nebulon

I said in Why does refreshing Disk Usage take so long?:

Could the two be separated out somehow so that it's possible to just quickly get updated total df -h figures while waiting for all the detail?

I think that's the data that most people most often quickly want

[nebulon]

For this we have the manual refresh button, the infomation in those situations won't be faster available by just running the background job more often.

But if someone has a hint on how to gather the information faster on linux without causing a lot of disk I/O, that would be great.

[jdaviescoates]

@nebulon I think you've missed the point Most people just want to be able to quickly refresh the total disk space stats, not all the details/ breakdown that hitting refresh generates. i.e. just quickly display the output of df while the much slower but more detailed du does its thing - that's what I'm suggesting

[nebulon]

Ah thanks for the clarification. Maybe we can think of some different UI which has an overview and some drilled down info if wanted.

[GuillaumeRZ]

This message solved the problem : https://forum.cloudron.io/post/110111

[SansGuidon]

@nebulon said in Disk usage update problem:

Ah thanks for the clarification. Maybe we can think of some different UI which has an overview and some drilled down info if wanted.

This would be awesome