[QA] reducing history of browser test jobs

[Greg Grossmeier]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We run the browser tests twice per day and keep the history of builds ad
> vitam.
>
> A side effect is that the Jenkins view for browser tests takes a couple
> minutes to load on first hit.  That is because Jenkins lamely load the
> while history of all jobs to generate the [dashboard].
>
> S Page filled [bug70671] about that slowdown.  It could be improved by
> dropping browser tests history after a set amount of time, at the
> expense of losing the long term trend.

Or: "Jenkinks UI slow due to constant build record loading"
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-15858

Last comment:
"fixed in 2.8"

We're on Jenkins ver. 1.565.3

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Greg Grossmeier
Release Team Manager