We have no need of fingerprints, but the CopyArtifact plugin "helpful" creates them anyhow (this is by design) - spending CPU and disk for no reason.
I opened https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-18653 to request that the CopyArtifact plugin make this optional. Of course, global disabling fingerprinting would also work, but it seem more correct to have the plugin not try and fingerprint in the first place. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steffen > Breitbach > Sent: 08 July 2013 10:10 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Disable fingerprinting? (1.509.1 LTS) > > > Hi Chris! > > On 05.07.2013 18:58, Chris Withers wrote: > > > > What problem are you experiencing that make you think you want to go out > > of your way to disable fingerprinting? > > > > If you don't need it, don't actively use it, but it being there does you > > no harm... > > Well, unfortunately, that isn't entirely true. We have the same problem > as described in https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-13154 on > our machine (apart from having I/O issues in general which are made > worse by this). > There is one comment in this issue: > "Seems to me that the size of the "fingerprints" folder has quite an > impact on the performance of "collecting data". Today I backed up and > removed the fingerprint data (~1,3Gb) and restarted Jenkins. Data > collection now takes ~10 seconds instead of 10-15 minutes." > > We had the same problem so I also deleted the fingerprints as a possible > solution. We had a number of fingerprints with 6 digits (can't remember > the exact number right now). Just after restarting Jenkins with an empty > fingerprints folder, we had about 2500 new fingerprints. > > Also it seems that the "Fingerprint cleanup.log" is never written. > > Anyhow, as we don't use it I'd rather disable it completely. > > Regards > Steffen > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci- > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the e-mail. Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be transmitted in or with the message. Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
