Or you can force it to run for all jobs by running this in the script console:
jenkins.model.Jenkins.instance.items.each { it.logRotate() }
Chris Williams
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nord, James
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 11:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Taking a lot of disk space
>From memory it does when the next build of that job runs.
/James
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miguel Almeida
Sent: 21 September 2012 17:05
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Taking a lot of disk space
Wonderful news James! Would that recursively delete artifacts from old builds
if you set it on a job with existing (a few hundred) builds?
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Nord, James
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Nah - no need to be that drastic - maven2 project type to the rescue!
Just set a different retention for artifacts vs builds.
Discard Old Builds
Days to keep builds
if not empty, build records are only kept up to this number of days
Max # of builds to keep
if not empty, only up to this number of build records are kept
Days to keep artifacts
if not empty, artifacts from builds older than this number of days will be
deleted, but the logs, history, reports, etc for the build will be kept
Max # of builds to keep with artifacts
if not empty, only up to this number of builds have their artifacts retained
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
On Behalf Of Stephen Connolly
Sent: 21 September 2012 15:56
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Taking a lot of disk space
Aha! Maven 2 project type strikes again!
It auto-archives every build artifact... I think you can disable this
setting... but you risk reduced functionality in some use cases
On 21 September 2012 15:49, Miguel Almeida
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Marek,
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Marek Gimza
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Miguel,
Is the workspace directory under the
/usr/share/tomcat6/.jenkins/jobs/<job-name> directories?
It is. But the workspace directly below <job-name> is only 100 MB large, so
it's hardly the problem.
Running some "du" commands, I see most space is being occupied by the builds
directories under each module:
/usr/share/tomcat6/.jenkins/jobs/<job-name>/moduleA/builds. One of them
has...15GB of data!
This could be the reason for the disk usage.
The workspace is the directory to which jenkins will sync and perform your
build-steps.
You could take advantage of the "customWorkspace" field in the job
configuration or the "Remote FS root" field in the Node's configuration to
specify a different directory to store the workspace.
We use these fields to specify our workspace for each job to be different than
the job's meta-data, such as log-files, which is still under the
${JENKINS_HOME}/jobs/<job-name> directories.
Kind Regards,
Marek
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Miguel Almeida
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Dear all,
I have been using Jenkins for some months now and I am interested in the issue
of disk usage.
While trying to understand why the 50GB on the server were becoming short, I
decided to investigate the size of each job directory under
/usr/share/tomcat6/.jenkins/jobs/. To my surprise, this was larger than
expected. One maven job with 5 modules and about 700 runs is currently taking
16 GB of disk space!
I realize I can "discard old builds" of a job, but then I'll lose interesting
metrics like code coverage trends or test result trends. My questions are:
1) Is this a normal usage - 23-ish MB per job run?
2) If so, are there other options that allow me to keep a relatively
interesting history but without taking so much disk space?
3) Is this a usual concern, or do you just splash new TB disks whenever you run
out of space? I mean, I've been using Jenkins for 10 months and have around 20
projects now, surely this is not intensive usage.
I appreciate the feedback,
Miguel Almeida
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