On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 8:43 AM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > It looks like 'make check-acceptance' creates directories in > build/clang/tests/results which are huge and which it never > cleans up. For example one of my build directories (configured > just for arm targets) has over 350 'job-[timestamp]' directories, > many of which are 2.5GB or more in size. >
Every "job-[timestamp]" directory is the result of an "avocado run" invocation, that is, one "make check-acceptance" command. > I assume most of this is artefacts (disk images etc) needed to > rerun the tests. That's useful to keep around so you can manually > run a test. However, we should be sharing this between runs, not > creating a fresh copy for every time check-acceptance is > run, surely ? > They contain results and files needed for debugging the results of tests, not artefacts needed to re-run them. Everything that is shareable is in the "~/avocado/data/caches" directory. > I just freed 72 GB (!) of disk on my local box just by doing > rm -rf build/arm-clang/tests/results/ ... > > thanks > -- PMM > There's the "make check-clean" rule, which will clear everything too. We can also add a flag to *not* save the results from the beginning, but I guess one would miss them when needed. Any other ideas? Thanks, - Cleber.
