It might help to mail tool users about their tools that have files with
>45GB, say, once a week or month.

Cheers,
Magnus

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 7:25 PM Brooke Storm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Due to repeated recent outages in the past 30 days and a long history of
> previous outages due to log files filling up NFS for Toolforge, I’ve
> deployed a change to restrict the maximum file size that can be created
> from the Toolforge system of 50 GB.
>
> When a process hits that limit, it will fail to continue writing to the
> file with the message that the “maximum file size” has been reached.  There
> are files over this size in the environment now that are not going to be
> affected, but moving them within the same filesystem is likely to require
> help from someone with root access.
>
> If the limit becomes a problem, it can be revisited.  Please let us know
> on the cloud discussion list or on #wikimedia-cloud if problems arise from
> the change.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brooke Storm
> Operations Engineer
> Wikimedia Cloud Services
> [email protected]
> IRC: bstorm_
>
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