looks like tungsten gets ~1.6GB of new metrics (files) per day, that's ~1600 metrics which seems a bit excessive _per day_
one possible culprit might be reqstats:
```
37783362 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 1 22:13 reqstats/mai_wikipedia_org
38648570 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 2 04:01 reqstats/action_wikipedia_org
39261896 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 2 05:11 reqstats/sfair_org
39554792 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 56 Nov 2 22:17 reqstats/Mai_wikipedia_org
39554806 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 2 15:16 reqstats/www_NL_wikipedia_org
39985031 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 3 00:59 reqstats/during_World_War_IIwikipedia_org
2441617483 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 3 10:19 reqstats/wpDestFile_wikipedia_org
40863811 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 3 15:32 reqstats/en_wikiquosity_org
41120113 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 3 15:50 reqstats/bn_m__wikipedia_org
2441617922 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 3 21:54 reqstats/zh_wikipedia_orgzh_wikipedia_org
2441618065 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 4 02:45 reqstats/www_za_wikiversity_org
42767867 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 4 08:42 reqstats/www_ietf_org
42767869 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 4 11:08 reqstats/el_wikiipedia_org
2441618257 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 _graphite _graphite 26 Nov 4 11:54 reqstats/zhqvcrgkqodjbfyeuxdqaiqzx_org
```