On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 13:58, Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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.
This doesn't in practice seem to be the case. Picking a subdirectory at random: ./build/clang/tests/results/job-2021-07-30T11.20-63bd0a6/test-results/tmp_dir4_a3m36o/091-tests_acceptance_machine_sparc64_sun4u.py_Sun4uMachine.test_sparc64_sun4u/day23 This contains (among other things) a vmlinux file which I assume is the one we run on the guest. It looks to me like this is a directory where we unzipped/untarred a downloaded file with the guest image. And another: ./build/clang/tests/results/job-2021-07-30T11.20-63bd0a6/test-results/tmp_dirwowk1bzp/026-tests_acceptance_boot_linux_console.py_BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_cubieboard_initrd/ This seems to contain a rootfilesystem for some test or other, with a boot/, lib/, usr/, etc. These all look like artefacts to me, in the sense that they're the same every time. I notice that all these have 'tmp_dir*' directories in the paths. Is the problem just that we're failing to clean up a tempdir in some situations? thanks -- PMM
