Re: Increase OpenBSD CI task's RAM disk size

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Date: 2025-09-12T14:22:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2025-09-02 10:24:34 +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > On 15 Aug 2025, at 12:20, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 at 12:19, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On 15 Aug 2025, at 10:46, Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.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.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying, this definitely seems like something we should do to
> keep tests from failing.

Pushed it now.

I've just enabled openbsd, netbsd and mingw to run by default on
postgres/postgres. If that works without a problem, I'll also enable it on
postgresql-cfbot.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Commits

  1. ci: openbsd: Increase RAM disk's size