Re: [PATCH v2] gitlab-ci: Decrease the size of the compiler cache

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 06:17:59PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> 
> Uploading the cache from the runner takes a long time in the MSYS2
> job, mostly due to the size of the compiler cache.
> However, looking at runs with a non-poluted cache, it seems like
> you can get a build with a 99% hit rate already with ~ 160 MiB cache
> size, so the compiler cache with 500 MiB certainly contains a lot of
> stale files. Thus decrease the size of the ccache to a more reasonable
> value to speed up the MSYS2 job in our CI.
> 
> While at it, also add a "du -sh" for the build folder to get a better
> feeling for the amount of object code that is required for the build,
> and publish the list of files in /var/cache to be able to better
> analyze what is really clogging our cache here.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  v2: Decrease cache size to 180M and save cache-log.txt as artifact
> 
>  .gitlab-ci.d/windows.yml | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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