Re: poudriere-devel and tmpfs use by inactive builders: an example

On 4/30/26 2:43 AM, Tatsuki Makino wrote:
> Hello.
>
> When jobid03 is running and jobid06 has finished its work and is on 
> standby, the environment of jobid06 remains intact, which means that 
> tmpfs continues to use memory.
> When looking inside 
> /usr/local/poudriere/data/.m/main-CA76-default/06/var/db/pkg/local.sqlite, 
> all the packages installed as dependencies of the last built port 
> remain installed, and if llvm19 are installed, it seems to consume as 
> much as 2GB.
>
> ...isn't it right?
>

Yes the cleanup only happens at the start of a package build. So it is 
possible for wasted space/memory after a build is done.

I'll review and consider cleaning up the tmpfs at the end of build_pkg() 
as well.

Bryan