The Fedora Packages webapp is causing a number of nagios warnings about disk space.

{{{
packages02.phx2.fedoraproject.org/Disk Space DISK WARNING - free space: / 14487 MB (15% inode=32%)
}}}

The place on the file system is {{{/var/cache/fedoracommunity}}} which is gluster backed.

None of our app developers are quite sure what the app is doing with the tree of files located under there. Some of it is a xapian cache. Some of it is a yum cache. Some of it is a git checkout of all the packages under pkgs.fedoraproject.org.

Much of the code that puts files in that location in the filesystem is kicked off by cronjobs; that code lives here https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedora-packages/tree/develop/fedoracommunity/search

A quickfix is to just bump the space so we stop getting warnings.. but longer term, one of us needs to get in there and:

1) understand what that search-indexing code is doing.
2) determine if anything is less important and can be jettisoned to save space.

For whoever ends up digging in to that, the fedora-packages cronjobs are an excellent candidates to be rewritten as fedmsg consumers. i.e., when a package's git repo is pushed to, do a pull on that repo to get the latest changes. When a new package is added in pkgdb, add it to the local package index. This would be icing on the cake.