# Faster disk space calculation for upload heavy instances

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/faster-disk-space-calculation-for-upload-heavy-instances/318997>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** performance, uploads, completed\
**Created:** [July 29, 2024, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faster-disk-space-calculation-for-upload-heavy-instances/318997 "2024-07-29T11:17:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Overgrow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/overgrow/32/478189_2.png) [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/faster-disk-space-calculation-for-upload-heavy-instances/318997/3 "2024-08-10T08:53:26Z")

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Thanks for your feedback.

`du` was taking more than minute on HDD and with SSD it’s roughly 20 seconds.

My reasoning is that if you have an instance depended on uploads like ours, you have a dedicated partition for uploads anyway.

But yes, your solution #1 looks more elegant. I’ll look into it and submit a modified PR.

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