[Box-Admins] Re: [Board] Disk space is low on box3

[Chris Muller]

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> There's less than 3GB (out of 60) free disk space at the moment on box3, and
> it keeps decreasing.
>
> What services are running on box3?
> - squeaksource.com which currently uses about 17GB
> - build.squeak.org - aka jenkins - which uses about 35 GB at the moment
> - apache2 as a frontend for the websites, which uses negligible disk space
> - a yet unused but configured nameserver, which uses negligible disk space
> - a seemingly unused ftp server, which should probably be removed, but it
> uses negligible disk space anyway
>
> What are the possible solutions?
> - increase the size of the disk. This can be done by the SFC, if the Board
> requests it, and the SFC is willing to do it. In theory this can be done on
> the fly - without stopping the server[1].
>         How large should the increase be?
>         - It depends on what the plans about jenkins are, but the more the
> merrier.
> - move squeaksource.com to box4. box3 was planned to host nothing but
> jenkins. There's plenty of space left on box4, so this is something we can
> do fairly easily.
> - clean up jenkins. We can keep less build artifacts, delete unused projects
> (if any), try to remove unused versions of softwares, try to share files
> using hard links, etc. But this is probably what requires the most effort.

Why do we need to devote more than HALF of box3 to Jenkins?  35GB
of....  what?  For goodness sake it runs the tests in a 20MB image and
that's it!  Why in the world does it need so much space?  And what
valuable output of Jenkins are we as a community, consuming from it
that we should expend resources to "keep it growing" instead of
putting it on a diet?