Re: Increase OpenBSD CI task's RAM disk size

From: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Increase OpenBSD CI task's RAM disk size
Date: 2025-08-15 10:20:36
Message-ID: CAN55FZ0gWZJTeXgYUSJV_CHmneejKLsAQ_Lu9hDnanuNhZkpyA@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

Thank you for looking into this!

On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 at 12:19, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
>
> > On 15 Aug 2025, at 10:46, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > Sometimes OpenBSD CI tasks fail with 'No space left on device' [1].
> > It's due to the OpenBSD CI task's RAM disk size being ~3.8 GB. This
> > patch increases it to ~4.6 GB. I chose this size manually, we can
> > increase it more.
>
> I don't know Cirrus enough to know if this is a daft question, but does this
> impact the cost (in actual money or credits) for running the CI tests?

I don't expect this to increase costs, and it might even reduce them
slightly. Disks generally perform slower when free space is low, so
the change could make OpenBSD CI tasks faster.

--
Regards,
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Microsoft

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