I have a few dockers that seem to be taking up an abnormally large amount of space, especially DelugeVPN.. Are these normal sizes?

 

 

With Deluge there is only one configurable path which is pointing to my appdata folder on my cache, so can't see how I would have it misconfigured..

 

If these are normal, ok, I'll just make my image file bigger, but if they're not, how do I fix it?

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I came to ask the same thing. I see the comment that a 20GB docker image is PLENTY of space unless you have a gazillion containers. Well, I have 19 containers using 27GB and I can't find anything misconfigured. Hopefully, other people post their sizes, but yours looks similar to mine. The only thing that jumps out is that 1.38GB writable for delugevpn-binhex. I don't have that container, but none of my writeable sizes are that big.

 

The problem with one standard answer is that it isn't 100% true 100% of the time.  Just like everything, it is much more nuanced than that.  Which containers you run, and the features they may contain play a role.  And that software tends to get bigger with every new update, as more features are added.

 

As much as I love binhex (great support, lots of documentation) his containers are usually on the chunky side and always take up more space than the same application from someone else.  That's why they take the top 8 rows of your screenshot.

 

Seeing that most folks have their docker.img on a nVME or SATA SSD, the size difference from going from 20GB to 40GB really is insignificant, especially on a 1TB drive.  So it isn't the size of the file, but more important is if you can't explain why the file is so big (or even why it is growing).  That might indicate a misconfigured docker, writing to docker.img isntead of someplace it should.

The get container size screen doesn't account for layer reuse.
Binhex containers all use the same base layers, so the majority of their reported size doesn't actually result in more disk usage.

On 11/20/2024 at 12:23 PM, jcato said:

I came to ask the same thing. I see the comment that a 20GB docker image is PLENTY of space unless you have a gazillion containers. Well, I have 19 containers using 27GB and I can't find anything misconfigured. Hopefully, other people post their sizes, but yours looks similar to mine. The only thing that jumps out is that 1.38GB writable for delugevpn-binhex. I don't have that container, but none of my writeable sizes are that big.

 

 

Thanks for sharing your sizes, you actually do have the same delugevpn-binhex docker.. I just renamed it to put the actual  program name first.. Mine is nearly twice the size of yours but the rest look about the same..