On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:11:33PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On 21 March 2017 at 15:48, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > > > > If anyone's interested, you can see remaining disk space (_if logged in_) > > > for the CI workers at this link: > > > https://ci.inria.fr/lyx/computer/ > > > > Would it be possible and desirable to have an email sent to the > > developers list if the free disk space is below e.g. 5 GB? > > > E-mail notification would be ok, and probably useful. > I had already into it a little, but oddly enough, I didn't find a > ready-made plugin. > > One of the core problems is related to our use of Docker images. When the > "build image" runs, it creates files that doesn't belong to the standard > user, 'ci'. I've solved this for the case when the build stage succeeds by > running a second Docker image to 'chown' the workdir to user 'ci'. However, > if the build stage fails, the 'chown' part is never executed. This leads > to old workdirs piling up, and Jenkins not being able to delete them. Then > I've gone in and manually deleted them. > > Another core problem is that the CI workers only have about 20 GB each... > and with a test job needing 4 GB, we can quickly run out of space. The > solution is to make the CI worker have more space, and it should be > possible to do this, I just haven't figured out how to mount the extra disk > space yet. > > I think I primarily want to make the CI workers have more disk space, as I > think we in general would like to keep e.g. the workspace of the last > successful build, and at the same time have more than five big CI jobs. > > So I've started to look at making a CI worker with a bigger disk, and at > the same time base it on the new Inria template that uses Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. > /Christian
Sounds good, Christian. Thanks for all of your work on this. Scott
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