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JeffG | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Why wouldn’t you just run strfry with a background task to clean up every now and then?
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cloud fodder | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 i got a raspi pi5 running strfry and a 1tb nvme on the local net.  gonna be running some experiments 🦖
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hzrd149 | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 does it have a clean up job? how does it prioritize what events to remove?
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JeffG | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It doesn’t but I’m sure you could write a little sidecar program or make a fork and add a bit for garbage collection.
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JeffG | 3 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Come to think of it, might be a fun project for nostr-rs-relay too. It’s super lightweight and already used SQLite for storage.
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hzrd149 | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I've thought about using nostr-rs-relay with a sidecar, but the issue is tracking what events where last used (sent). I'm not sure how to do that
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JeffG | 2 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 ahh, yeah ok - that makes sense. 

Had a quick look at nostr-rs-relay and it looks like all you'd really need is to add a new column to the database to store the last accessed time of the stored event. 

Then you could easily have a background task that ran to clean up. The methods that touch the events would just need to update that field every time the event is returned in a REQed. You'd have to spend a bit of time to make sure you optimized how to do that write... but feels doable to me.