From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6DB0C19F2D for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2022 06:18:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:52762 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oLIZA-0003BL-2b for qemu-devel@archiver.kernel.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:18:12 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oLIWa-0002Mz-7m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:15:32 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([170.10.129.124]:51474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oLIWW-00058y-Lz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:15:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1660025726; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=orPDrzkHdW/2Vr1UEhJzL3W5+i92eDNjEkFHqQNi45o=; b=NUqnfDmiaOfEDCQxHSJdqBNKlT7lrdPH40aJYGLCBxDU7dHapC+jYQ3UTXOE4BBfFfxfAG bCL1m9qBisXeMq9E0PlIARN/mrIgqcss2nOJazJ/o6SsSeW19FANQ7sEkjOpaWyP/rvNvx /dpvYGdlirbJ27d7jKfwz8ieGCUFrQQ= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-395-5pavtEAQPSunczc636ASxA-1; Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:15:22 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 5pavtEAQPSunczc636ASxA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 581BF380450D; Tue, 9 Aug 2022 06:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blackfin.pond.sub.org (unknown [10.39.194.81]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D3242166B26; Tue, 9 Aug 2022 06:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by blackfin.pond.sub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0866D21E675E; Tue, 9 Aug 2022 08:15:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Markus Armbruster To: Thomas Huth Cc: Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers , Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= , "Daniel P. Berrange" , Richard Henderson Subject: Re: how long do we need to retain gitlab CI job stdout logs? References: <536c6605-fd29-dbca-8633-944656e6dc8e@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:15:21 +0200 In-Reply-To: <536c6605-fd29-dbca-8633-944656e6dc8e@redhat.com> (Thomas Huth's message of "Mon, 8 Aug 2022 20:42:28 +0200") Message-ID: <87leryj62u.fsf@pond.sub.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.6 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=armbru@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.082, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Thomas Huth writes: > On 08/08/2022 19.47, Peter Maydell wrote: >> Hi; I just reduced QEMU's storage usage on gitlab by 130GB (no typo!) >> using https://gitlab.com/eskultety/gitlab_cleaner, which Dan helpfully >> pointed me at. This script removes old pipelines, which take up a >> lot of storage space for QEMU because they include the stdout logs >> for all the CI jobs in the pipeline. (Gitlab doesn't expire these, >> either by default or configurably -- you have to either manually delete >> the pipeline in the UI or else use the API, as this script does.) >> I somewhat conservatively only blew away pipelines from before the >> 1st January 2022. I feel like we don't really even need 6 months worth >> of CI job logs, though -- any views on whether we should be pruning >> them more aggressively ? > > I'd say we should at least keep the logs of the last 4 to 5 months, i.e. the logs for one release cycle, so we can check these logs in case we introduced > a new bug in the current release cycle. If this takes too much space, consider keeping every n-th log after a month.