[Ci-users] Missing recent builds

Fri Feb 7 17:20:06 UTC 2020
Vipul Siddharth <vipul at redhat.com>

Sure, thank you for understanding :)

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:46 PM František Šumšal <frantisek at sumsal.cz> wrote:
>
> I see, thanks a lot for the explanation!
>
> I guess the issue here is that in systemd we usually generate several
> dozens of builds per day, so leaving just last 20 cuts into the 'recent
> history'. However, I absolutely get the space issue, so I'll reconfigure
> all jobs to keep the artifacts for 30 days, and the jobs themselves for
> 60 days (and they shouldn't take much space and would help us to reschedule
> them if they're needed again).
>
> Anyway, if the need arises and a cleanup is necessary, could you remove
> just the artifacts? It would leave us with the option of being able to
> easily reschedule the job (as doing that manually is next to impossible
> due to sheer amount of variables the GitHub plugin sets).
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 2/7/20 5:43 PM, Vipul Siddharth wrote:
> > When /var/lib/jenkins gets full (or about to), I leave just the last
> > 20 builds and prune rest to clear up some space
> > Since we advise to copy important things (like builds to artifacts), I
> > didn't know they were important (leaving 20 to go back and address
> > some issues)
> > In case you don't want me messing with them, please let me know.
> > Apologies for those.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:04 PM František Šumšal <frantisek at sumsal.cz> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I just noticed that many of the recent builds from our Jenkins slave[0] were unexpectedly
> >> removed, even though they shouldn't be, according to the retention policy (which is set
> >> to keep builds for 90 days in all affected jobs). As it's not the first time this happened
> >> I'm curious if there's some other retention policy we should be aware of, as this is kind of
> >> annoying - the missing jobs are a few days old, some of them failed, but apart from not
> >> being able to check the logs, we can't even reschedule them, because they don't exist
> >> anymore.
> >>
> >> Note: the retention policy is currently set unnecessarily high - that's a remnant from the last
> >> time this issue occurred, as I thought Jenkins is simply miscalculating the retention policy
> >> configuration. Cutting it to 45 or even 30 days should be an issue to conserve space on the
> >> master.
> >>
> >> PS: sorry for the double post, Vipul, I accidentally dropped the ML from To:
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Frantisek
> >>
> >> [0] systemd-ci-slave01
> >>
> >> --
> >> PGP Key ID: 0xFB738CE27B634E4B
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> --
> PGP Key ID: 0xFB738CE27B634E4B
>


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