Archive the artifacts: {{bsoe/publish/*.bsfw.sha1.txt}}
Not all of the matrix combinations are expected to generate artifacts. The build log for one that does not contains: {noformat} 14:34:48 Archiving artifacts 14:38:34 ‘bsoe/publish/*.bsfw.sha1.txt’ doesn’t match anything: ‘bsoe’ exists but not ‘bsoe/publish/*.bsfw.sha1.txt’ 14:38:34 No artifacts found that match the file pattern "bsoe/publish/*.bsfw.sha1.txt". Configuration error? {noformat} The error message is expected because the {{bsoe/publish}} directory is empty. However, I don't expect it to take ~4 minutes to discover that it needs to report that. If I run {{strace}} on the Java thread that appears to be busy during this time I can see it attempting to open (what looks like) every single file in the workspace with {{O_DIRECTORY}} and failing because the file is not a directory. If it successfully opens a directory then it calls {{fstat}} and {{getdents}} a few times before closing it. It looks like the glob pattern matcher has gone wild.
If I make the job create a dummy file that does match the pattern then the error goes away and archiving is quick.
(To be clear, the filenames I see in the {{strace}} output are not underneath {{bsoe/publish}}, they are elsewhere in the workspace.)
Expected behaviour: Archiving no artifacts should take negligible time. Actual behaviour: Archiving no artifacts takes several minutes with a large workspace.