Sign in

IS IT NORMAL FOR A GITLAB RUNNER TO NEED MANUAL CLEANUP EVERY MONTH?

Solvedcidisk-spacedocker3 replies · 253 views · started
Reply
Accepted solution by Zora — oh ive been there lol on build machines its almsot always Docker. See exactly how much: [code] then clean safely with docker system prune…
  1. Fenna Walsh
    @fenna_proxy

    ugh. every pipeline on our GitLab runner staretd failing at image push. The error is basically no space left on device, and the monitoring shows this:

    we never stored anything big on that machine. I deleetd some old logs and freed maybe 2 GB, which was gone again after three builds. what is actually gorwing here?

    The runner builds maybe a dozen Docker images a day for a few repos. Nothing huge, i thought... i'm starting to suspect something is caching aggressively behind my back. What are the usual hiding spots on a build machine?

    6
  2. Zora A.
    @polarranger

    Do du and df roughly agree, or is there a big gap?

    7 5 helpful
  4. Zora
    @zora_tensor
    Accepted solution

    oh ive been there lol on build machines its almsot always Docker. See exactly how much:

    docker system df
docker builder du

    then clean safely with docker system prune -af --filter "until=72h" and docker builder prune -af 🔥 Note -a also removes unused images, sooo teh next build will pull again.

    1 8 helpful

Reply to this topic

Sign in or create an account to reply.