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Auto-cleanup Nouveau indexes

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
erlang
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by tracing how Smoosh performs its existing cleanup work and read the linked Nouveau cleanup API documentation. Determine when automatic cleanup should run and verify that Smoosh invokes the Nouveau index cleanup endpoint without disrupting its other work.

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Description

enhancement needs-triage

Summary / Desired Behaviour / Possible Solution

Make Smoosh automatically cleanup Nouveau indexes to optimize disk usage.

Additional context

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Dominant language
Erlang
Stars
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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