On 8 December 2013 20:57, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's very cool, but it's not the zips we're talking about. We're
>> talking about the artifacts produced by Jenkins, which are Squeak
>> images. I wrote the release process to produce a series of artifacts
>> with different names. Because nothing gets replaced/overwritten, disk
>> usage is unbound.
>
> The rate of untamed growth is too fast.

I have no idea what you mean by that. I don't consider ~30MB of new
data to be "untamed growth", nor do I consider the accumulation of a
mere 6 GB over, what, 600 builds? to be "too fast".

>>> The result is that the redundant Magma-backed copy of
>>> source.squeak.org consumes less than 1/4th the space of the original
>>> File based version.  A Magma-backed copy of squeaksource.com would
>>> about 12GB of space.
>>>
>>> For now, though, Frank has the ability and responsibility to trim up
>>> the jenkins stuff.  Thanks Frank.
>>
>> I nuked the ReleaseSqueakTrunk target directory, freeing up 5.9 GB of
>> space. (We should always consider the target/ directory of every job
>> as being evanescent. Feel free to nuke these at any time. Every job
>> should be written such that it can reconstitute its working
>> environment in target/.
>
> Automating something (builds) shouldn't introduce a new manual
> process.  There should be something to keep the size reasonable so we
> don't have to remember do it manually every month..

Er. I explicitly decided to produce versioned artifacts that a human
would assess for quality. I stand by that decision. You _should_ be
able to easily go and say "Well, version N is crap, but N - 2 is just
fine. Let's just go with that."

What's crazy is that we don't have graphs that we can use to easily
track disk usage, nor alerting mechanisms other than Ken to warn of
impending doom. Munin and Icinga would do fine, with Apache/nginx to
serve up status pages. If only someone with sufficient time had the
energy to put in the graft necessary to set up these standard sysadmin
tools.

frank