FYI,
You can also force log rotation (i.e. old build purging) to occur for all jobs
by running this in the script console:
jenkins.model.Jenkins.instance.items.each { it.logRotate() }
-Chris
From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com
[mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Evans
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:34 PM
To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Will reducing the Max # of builds to keep automatically delete old
builds?
Ed,
Based on my experience, it will purge old builds (by date or quantity) only
when a new build of that type completes. In your case, once you run one, it'll
should automatically delete the 91 "extra" builds which are no longer within
the retention policies for that build type. Note that it will keep the last
successful build, no matter how many failures you have, so it should always
keep the most recent successful build, no matter how old.
Note that this might not occur properly with multiconfiguration builds, as I've
seen them not clean up properly, but don't know if that's fixed recently or not.
Scott
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Ed Young
<e...@summitbid.com<mailto:e...@summitbid.com>> wrote:
I need to clear out some drive space on our build machine by deleting
old builds, but manually selecting each one and deleting it is too
painful.
If I change Max # of builds to keep from 100 to 10, will Jenkins
automatically delete the 90 that I no longer want, or do I need to
delete them by hand?
