You might want to quickly look through 
http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#shared-state-cache
 in the ref-manual before supplying raw documentation information.  This 
section is our current discourse on sstate.

Scott

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>From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
>Sent: Monday, February 02, 2015 9:43 AM
>To: Burton, Ross; Christopher Larson; Gary Thomas
>Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
>Subject: Re: [yocto] sstate management
>
>On Monday 02 February 2015 17:33:23 Burton, Ross wrote:
>> On 2 February 2015 at 16:48, Christopher Larson <clar...@kergoth.com>
>wrote:
>> >   Is there some maintenance to be done on the sstate-cache?
>> >
>> >>   I'm thinking I want to set up a shared cache which might
>> >>   last for a long time and I would like to only keep the bits
>> >>   that are really needed.
>> >
>> > In the past i've either used sstate-cache-management.sh or ensured
>> > that SSTATE_DIR is on a mount with atime enabled and just
>> > periodically wiped anything that hasn't been accessed in over a week.
>>
>> Seconded on this - after doing lots of builds in the last few weeks
>> involving five machines and new eglibc/gcc patches my sstate was
>> 1.2TB.  A quick find -atime -delete did the job.
>
>I don't suppose I can talk one or more of you into writing up some
>documentation for this to add to the manual? (As usual, something raw in the
>form of a wiki page that Scott can then adapt would be ideal.)
>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>
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