Re: Why so many out-of-disk-space failures on buildfarm machines?

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Why so many out-of-disk-space failures on buildfarm machines?
Date: 2007-07-04 03:14:27
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.64.0707032307320.23311@leary.csoft.net
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Tom Lane wrote:

> I realize that a lot of these members are running on old underpowered
> machines with not so much disk, but is it possible that the buildfarm
> itself is leaking disk space? Not cleaning up log files for instance?
>

No, the buildfarm does not leak disk space. It is possible that members
are configured with --keepall, which keeps the entire directory tree if a
failure occurs. That can fill up a lot of space quickly when you get a
failure.

Kris Jurka

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