In hudson version 1.386 I am seeing the same issue. In addition to the large log files, I am having ivy.xml files created that are zero bytes in size. I think this is happening because ivy/hudson is trying to resolve workspace files before the slaves are online. This happens with the ivy plugin versions 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.13 and 1.14 ( These are the versions I tried )
Log info
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Can't stat file .....
at hudson.ivy.IvyBuildTrigger.copyIvyFileFromWorkspaceIfNecessary(IvyBuildTrigger.java:262)
at hudson.ivy.IvyBuildTrigger.recomputeModuleDescriptor(IvyBuildTrigger.java:293)
at hudson.ivy.IvyBuildTrigger.getModuleDescriptor(IvyBuildTrigger.java:237)
at hudson.ivy.IvyBuildTrigger.buildDependencyGraph(IvyBuildTrigger.java:385)
at hudson.util.DescribableList.buildDependencyGraph(DescribableList.java:181)
at hudson.model.Project.buildDependencyGraph(Project.java:168)
at hudson.model.DependencyGraph.<init>(DependencyGraph.java:104)
at hudson.model.Hudson.rebuildDependencyGraph(Hudson.java:3384)
at hudson.model.Hudson$13.run(Hudson.java:2199)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.TaskGraphBuilder$TaskImpl.run(TaskGraphBuilder.java:146)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor.runTask(Reactor.java:259)
at hudson.model.Hudson$3.runTask(Hudson.java:691)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$2.run(Reactor.java:187)
at org.jvnet.hudson.reactor.Reactor$Node.run(Reactor.java:94)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
.......
INFO: Completed initialization
Dec 7, 2010 1:20:23 PM hudson.TcpSlaveAgentListener <init>
INFO: JNLP slave agent listener started on TCP port 12328
Is this still a problem with the latest version of the Ivy plugin?