when a job is complete and i right-click and delete the job, i would expect that the job folder from \DeadlineRepository6\jobs also gets deleted, but that’s not happening. is this on purpose, and is there a way to change the behavior?
i ask because most of the jobs we submit have a large footprint for a small set of tasks, so we’re seeing disk fill up rapidly. we’d like to not have to dig into the repo and figure out which directories have active jobs when we need to make some more room on the disk.
thanks!
We actually store the jobs you delete in a temporary spot in the Database in case you did it by accident. By default we wait two hours, but that’s configurable in the “Job Settings” section of “Configure Repository Options” in the Monitor.
Now, house cleaning is what actually deletes these folder for you, and we’ve recently found that it’s possible for house cleaning to get stuck (we’re not sure how prevalent this is). The issue is the .lock files in “[repo]/settings”.
To test that, try performing a house cleaning from the Monitor, and check the long-since deleted jobs. If they aren’t cleaned up, try deleting those lock files and trying again.
We’ve removed the need for those files in 7.0 already, so this issue won’t affect you once that’s released.