On 08/16/12 09:33 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:18:11AM -0400, Ben Hearsum wrote: >> On 08/16/12 02:10 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: >>> But maybe we can work around this. At least for rm -rf, instead of >>> rm -rf'ing before the build, we could move the objdir away so that a >>> fresh new one is created. The older one could be removed much later. >> >> I don't think this would be any more than a one-time win until the disk >> fills up. At the start of each job we ensure there's enough space to do >> the current job. By moving the objdir away we'd avoiding doing any clean >> up until we need more space than is available. After that, each job >> would still end up cleaning up roughly one objdir to clean up enough >> space to run. > > If the cleanup happened at the end of the build, rather than at the > beginning, tests could start earlier.
Good point. This won't help much when we have long wait times, but I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783253 on it. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
