I'd say it's intentionally AND a memory leak ;-)
This is IMO one of the major pain points with Jenkins. We keep 'only' 3
weeks worth of builds and still it takes >40 minutes for a Jenkins
startup - spending the majority of the time in loading the builds.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be easy to fix this without breaking
existing API. I had once tried to figure out an easy way to load old
builds only on demand, but gave up after several hours.
As Mark already said, the currently preferred solution is to remove old
builds.
Christoph
Am 10.09.2012 19:08, schrieb bearrito:
I wonder if that is intentional or a memory leak.
Great to know this by the way. Does it load all the metadata on service
startup or does it slowly accumulate?
-barrett
On Monday, September 10, 2012 8:58:44 AM UTC-4, Mandeville, Rob wrote:
I’m getting OOM exceptions left and right in my Jenkins instance.
It’s a fairly large installation, with over 100 slave nodes, and I’m
running in Java 6 HotSpot. I generated a heap dump (great feature
to do that via the Web page, BTW) and finding something that was
surprising to me.
It appears that every build that Jenkins “remembers” is kept in the
JVM itself. That is, when I’m keeping the last 400 runs of a given
job, I have the metadata (though not the logs, I hope…) of all 400
runs in the JVM. Is this in fact the case? Is there a way to store
build information historically without keeping it in core? Is this
a problem for other users?
Thanks in advance,
--Rob
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