> On 9 Apr 2021, at 7:20 pm, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 8, 2021, at 13:05, Nils Breunese wrote:
>
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> Both copies of the simulator caches came back again. I filed FB9072613 with
>>> Apple about this. We were down to 3GB free disk space which isn't a good
>>> place to be. I deleted the caches again and marked the dyld directories
>>> chmod 000. Let's see if that prevents Xcode from recreating the caches,
>>> hopefully without causing error messages that cause builds to fail. We now
>>> have 21GB free.
>>
>> I recently learned that 'xcrun simctl delete unavailable’ and 'xcrun simctl
>> delete all’ exist. Those commands can be used to reclaim disk space in use
>> by Xcode simulators. Not sure if they could be of use in this scenario.
>
> I haven't tried that. I not only want to delete them, I also want them not to
> get recreated in the future. I don't know whether those commands would
> accomplish that. If my preceding attempt of making the dyld directories
> unreadable and unwritable does not work, I may look into your suggestion.
Maybe these commands could be run automatically, periodically, as part of the
buildbot setup ?
>
