Bamboo Startup Time

[Kyle Varga]

Bamboo takes over 30 minutes to startup, it appears that it is loading all builds into the JVM Cache. This seems like a not-great thing todo. Is there any way to configure this to use a redis/memcached or decrease the amount of caching?

[Przemek Bruski · Accepted solution]

275 - that's not much - any plan branches?

Yes, disabled plans also get loaded.

[Kyle Varga]

Instance statistics

Number of plans 60991

Number of builds (approx) 7866

Full reindex time (approx) 6 minutes

[Przemek Bruski]

over 60K plans. That looks suspicious. Which Bamboo version are you on and does this number keep growing "on its own"?

[Kyle Varga]

It seems to be growing "on its own".

Number of plans 61082

Number of builds (approx) 8009

Full reindex time (approx) 6 minutes

We are currently running Bamboo 5.1.

[roy_lyons]

Check to see if you have a variable set for the git repository url in one of your plans that has automatic branching turned on. Thats what did it to mine!

[Daniel Wester]

Are you using Plan Branches? In particular is there a set of build plans that have a lot of branches?

[Kyle Varga]

We are. I just found a bug that is fixed in 5.1.1 (we are running 5.1.0 until tonight) that has some sort of infinite loop if the branch names contains a comma. Most likely the cause, hope to clean this all out and see how much it improves load time.

[Przemek Bruski]

Yeah, that bug is the reason why I've asked about growth and Bamboo version.

Once you upgrade, the branches coung will stop growing, but the old ones will still be there.

You can try enabling branch expiry on the affected plans to have Bamboo remove the automatically. It's a lot to remove though.

[Kyle Varga]

There is some steps to help cleanout the old branches in the bug ticket that I will attempt to follow tonight.

[Adam Pryce]

How can we obtain these kind of instance statistics? We are dealing with a similar problem, but we aren't sure how to take that heartbeat.

[Przemek Bruski]

Unfortunately not. We are aware of the problem though and we are investigating possible approaches to reducing it.

30 minutes seems like a lot though - how many plans do you have?

[Kyle Varga]

275 Build Plans. Do disabled plans also get loaded into memory?