I know this isn’t the best community for this topic but Lemmy doesn’t have anything more specific (yet). I want to know what’s going on that I have this setting in FreshRSS:
And this behavior:
Something tells me it isn’t a bug, just going over my head. I’m still new to selfhosting so it’s not all clear to me how it works yet.
What’s the problem exactly?
In the settings menu I have set the “maximum number of articles to keep” at 25, and yet my feeds have more than 25 articles in them.
Depends, take a look at the rest of your settings in the Archiving page.
You might have set “Never delete Unread Articles”.
Also, that purge job is on a cron. I’m not sure how often it’ll run. Could be once a week or even month. Thousands of rss articles and links are only a few megabytes big. But you can push the “purge now” button at the bottom of the archiving page to check your settings.
Make sure none of the exceptions are ticked and the Minimum number of articles to keep per feed is also 25 or below. Then its up to the cron when that runs so you might have to manually purge it and optimise the database to see what it will actually keep.
I can’t say I have ever worried about it, been running FreshRSS for years and it seems to keep its database size in check fairly well and the defaults have worked fine for me and it rarely gets above 100MB. So I know it “loosely” works in that old articles are absolutely getting purged in time but have no idea how strictly it follows these rules.
