Thomas Huth <[email protected]> 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.
