On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 20:17:55 +0000
Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 15:37:38 +0100
> Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd.sim...@collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Our lava instance is currently well over 120.000 jobs ran, which is
> > great. 
> > 
> > Unfortunately this means we've got quite a lot of historical data,
> > the postgresql database is around 45 gigs and well over 600 gigs of
> > job output data in the filesystem. We'd love to trim that down
> > somewhat to more sensible sizes by pruning the older job
> > information. Are there some guidelines on how to do that (and or
> > tools available for)?  
> 
> production is larger still, staging is about the same size as your
> instance. We've considered this problem a few times but we don't have
> clear answers right now. It's pending - we need the input from a DBA
> on just how to optimise the current database models, implement an
> archive / purge method and keep on top of the changes due in the
> refactoring.
> 
> Deleting bundles (and attachments) has implications for also removing
> files on the filesystem. TestJobs are the most obvious metric for size
> but you may get a more relevant metric from a count of TestResult. It
> is the bundles and dashboard testresult table which use up the most
> space.
> 
> $ sudo lava-server manage shell
> Python 2.7.11 (default, Dec  9 2015, 00:29:25) 
> [GCC 5.3.1 20151205] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> (InteractiveConsole)
> >>> from dashboard_app.models import TestResult
> >>> TestResult.objects.count()  
> 
> Or from postgres (where timing is available):
> 
> lava-staging=# select count(id) from dashboard_app_testresult;
>   count  
> ---------
>  2625659
> (1 row)
> 
> Time: 367.321 ms

Sjoerd: do have any performance issues with a database that size? A
comparison of the commands above would be useful (along with
information on the load on that machine / amount of RAM etc.).

-- 


Neil Williams
=============
http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/

Attachment: pgpKtA0L_NaFs.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

_______________________________________________
linaro-validation mailing list
linaro-validation@lists.linaro.org
https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-validation

Reply via email to