On Apr 9, 2021, at 14:10, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 9 Apr 2021, at 7:20 pm, Ryan Schmidt 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 ?
I don't want the wear and tear on the SSDs resulting from constantly re-writing
18.5 GB of unwanted data. I want to prevent Xcode from doing that. I am hopeful
that the steps I have already taken will prevent that. If not, I will
investigate other possibilities.
