How do I safely determine JIRA attachment sizes

[no_longer_in_sudoers_file]

Here's the problem:

1. I need to know how big the attachments are for a JIRA instance
2. But the JIRA instance is under constant load, serving a global user community.

How do I "safely" determine JIRA attachment sizes with minimal impact to my end users?

[no_longer_in_sudoers_file · Accepted solution]

Here is the solution I used:

nice -n 20 ionice -c 3 find /opt/j2ee/domains/atlassian.com/support/jira-home/data/attachments/ -size +25M -exec ls -lah {} \; | awk '{print "size:"$5"\tname: "$9}' > /opt/scratch/attachments_over_25MB.txt

Where I am looking to find attachments greater than 25MB.

Note how I use ionice -c 3 which ensures that I will not have io contention between JIRA and my search.  I also used nice to minimize CPU contention.

[Steven F Behnke]

Thank you for sharing this resource.