New Install - Space Usage

Hi Everyone,

Quick question here, as I am little confused. I have tried looking through the manual to see if there is an answer there, but did not find anything conclusive.

Just done a new install, of 3.7.1 out of the box using Softculous.

I have one survey, and that is it. I have extended the Bootstrap theme, and using the extended theme for my survey.

The initial install instructions suggest I need a mnimum of 180mb, which I have. What I was not expecting was to see 474mb being used.

A deeper look shows that 50% of this is made up of the tmp directory.

$ du -sh ./*/
12K ./admin/
65M ./application/
58M ./assets/
3.4M ./docs/
30M ./framework/
21M ./locale/
88K ./plugins/
724K ./tests/
9.7M ./themes/
47M ./third_party/
242M ./tmp/
276K ./upload/


My instinct would be to remove the files in the tmp directory, but wanted to check in with some more experienced users first before doing this and finding I have messed up my install - as I have an "active" survey under way.

TIA

Thank you for a quick response

The tmp directory looks like this

241M ./assets/
904K ./runtime/
8.0K ./upload/

The assets directory contains loads of subdirectories, which looks like a sort of hash key .....

The majority have a timestamp from the install, there are five directories updated today.

All settings are set to default, the only change I have made is to extend the bootstrap theme to use some local CSS for the survey.

In essence, it is "straight out of the box".

Maybe this discussion helps:
https://www.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-this-with-limesurvey/112271-how-do-i-clear-tmp-folders

Joffm

Thanks I will have a look at that. I could understand this if the site had been running a while, but to find all these assets from a clean refresh install is puzzling.

Even more puzzling, my development site (sitting on a PC) is only 255mb. However, that is with 3.16.

I wonder if this is an issue resulting from the Softculous install process?

Anywhere, off to look at my version.php file