Re: Will reducing the Max # of builds to keep automatically delete old builds?

2012-09-24 Thread Sami Tikka
Disk usage plugin recalculates disk space usage based on a very, very lazy schedule. It is actually somewhat disk-intensive, so it is nice it doesn't run continuously. Another way to save on disk space is to find the spot in job configuration where you configure the archived artifacts. Under

Re: Will reducing the Max # of builds to keep automatically delete old builds?

2012-09-14 Thread Ed Young
the disk usage plugin is installed and is what I've been using to determine which projects (mine) are the biggest disk hogs. One of my builds uses 18 GB of space. The next largest one is 1GB. The reason it uses so much space is because I want keep 50 old builds behind so that if I notice that

Re: Will reducing the Max # of builds to keep automatically delete old builds?

2012-09-14 Thread Chris Withers
Hi Ed, Try the Workspace Cleanup Plugin and configure it to wipe out your workspace after the build is done. cheers, Chris On 14/09/2012 14:39, Ed Young wrote: the disk usage plugin is installed and is what I've been using to determine which projects (mine) are the biggest disk hogs. One

Will reducing the Max # of builds to keep automatically delete old builds?

2012-09-13 Thread Ed Young
I need to clear out some drive space on our build machine by deleting old builds, but manually selecting each one and deleting it is too painful. If I change Max # of builds to keep from 100 to 10, will Jenkins automatically delete the 90 that I no longer want, or do I need to delete them by

Re: Will reducing the Max # of builds to keep automatically delete old builds?

2012-09-13 Thread Scott Evans
Ed, Based on my experience, it will purge old builds (by date or quantity) only when a new build of that type completes. In your case, once you run one, it'll should automatically delete the 91 extra builds which are no longer within the retention policies for that build type. Note that it will

Re: Will reducing the Max # of builds to keep automatically delete old builds?

2012-09-13 Thread Ed Young
Scott, kicking off the build seems to have deleted the old builds, although I'm not seeing the diskspace usage go down the way I'm hoping. I have a lot of builds to reconfigure and kick off though so this make some time. What do you mean by multiconfiguration builds? On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at