At ~200 articles/s what the prober stores (inspections, par2 file lists, the WAL) took ~0.8-1.1 GB an hour of homelab's root, and nothing stopped it at the 10 GB floor. Below 12 GB free it claims nothing (resumed 1 GB above): the lanes go dry and its share shrinks to its minimum. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>