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Command: system gc

Initializes a garbage collection of jobs, evaluations, allocations, and nodes. This is an asynchronous operation.

Nomad periodically garbage collects jobs, evaluations, allocations, and nodes. The exact garbage collection logic varies by object, but in general Nomad only permanently deletes objects once they are terminal and no longer needed for future scheduling decisions. See gc related server agent configuration parameters for details on tuning periodic garbage collection.

The system gc command bypasses these settings and immediately attempts to garbage collect dead objects regardless of any "threshold" or "interval" server settings. This is useful to quickly free memory on servers running low, but users should prefer tuning periodic garbage collection parameters to meet their needs instead of relying on manually running system gc.

Usage

nomad system gc [options]

If ACLs are enabled, this option requires a management token.

General Options

  • -address=<addr>: The address of the Nomad server. Overrides the NOMAD_ADDR environment variable if set. Defaults to http://127.0.0.1:4646.

  • -region=<region>: The region of the Nomad server to forward commands to. Overrides the NOMAD_REGION environment variable if set. Defaults to the Agent's local region.

  • -no-color: Disables colored command output. Alternatively, NOMAD_CLI_NO_COLOR may be set. This option takes precedence over -force-color.

  • -force-color: Forces colored command output. This can be used in cases where the usual terminal detection fails. Alternatively, NOMAD_CLI_FORCE_COLOR may be set. This option has no effect if -no-color is also used.

  • -ca-cert=<path>: Path to a PEM encoded CA cert file to use to verify the Nomad server SSL certificate. Overrides the NOMAD_CACERT environment variable if set.

  • -ca-path=<path>: Path to a directory of PEM encoded CA cert files to verify the Nomad server SSL certificate. If both -ca-cert and -ca-path are specified, -ca-cert is used. Overrides the NOMAD_CAPATH environment variable if set.

  • -client-cert=<path>: Path to a PEM encoded client certificate for TLS authentication to the Nomad server. Must also specify -client-key. Overrides the NOMAD_CLIENT_CERT environment variable if set.

  • -client-key=<path>: Path to an unencrypted PEM encoded private key matching the client certificate from -client-cert. Overrides the NOMAD_CLIENT_KEY environment variable if set.

  • -tls-server-name=<value>: The server name to use as the SNI host when connecting via TLS. Overrides the NOMAD_TLS_SERVER_NAME environment variable if set.

  • -tls-skip-verify: Do not verify TLS certificate. This is highly not recommended. Verification will also be skipped if NOMAD_SKIP_VERIFY is set.

  • -token: The SecretID of an ACL token to use to authenticate API requests with. Overrides the NOMAD_TOKEN environment variable if set.

Examples

Running the system gc command does not output unless an error occurs:

$ nomad system gc
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