Limit total size of cached tiles

[trohsb]

Is it possible to limit the total size of cached files to say 512MB and then delete tiles based on last accessed timestamps when space is needed?

[SomeoneElseOSM]

@trohsb If you're trying to do something like that, https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/mod_tile/blob/zoom/purge_old_tiles.sh might be a useful example to start from. See also https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/mod_tile/blob/zoom/report_tile_size.sh and https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/mod_tile/blob/zoom/report_database_size.sh . Each of those may need modifying to match your tile location. database location and mod_tile version of course.

[pantierra]

There are so many useful scripts around mod_tile. Wondering if at some point it would make sense to put them all together in a helper program with command-line arguments 🤔

[pantierra]

For now, @SomeoneElseOSM, do you think it would make sense to add these scripts to the utils directory and make them available here?

[SomeoneElseOSM]

do you think it would make sense to add these scripts to the utils directory and make them available here?

Yes - but you'd ned to make sure that https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/mod_tile/blob/zoom/purge_old_tiles.sh was using the standard mod_tiles's "long time ago" (20 years) as opposed to mine (10k days, which I chose because it's more visible when you're looking at dates on disk)