[Holger Levsen] > As discussed on irc this is because all clients hammer > popcon.debian.org on the same day at the same time (in their local > timezone at least) once a week, so many submissions get lost.
Here is a draft patch to implement a random sleep. The patch is mostly cut-n-paste from sitesummary, which did the same for cron-apt, but is as it stand not tested in popularity-contest. Index: default.conf =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/popcon/popularity-contest/default.conf,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.6 default.conf --- default.conf 8 Jan 2008 17:01:44 -0000 1.6 +++ default.conf 9 Jan 2008 17:36:06 -0000 @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ USEHTTP="yes" # HTTP_PROXY="http://proxy:port";. This overrides the environment # variable http_proxy. +# Random sleep between 0 and $RUNSLEEP seconds before running. 3600 +# is one hour. +RUNSLEEP="3600" + # MY_HOSTID is a secret number that the popularity-contest receiver # uses to keep track of your submissions. Whenever you send in a # new entry, it overwrites the last one that had the same HOSTID. Index: debian/cron.weekly =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/popcon/popularity-contest/debian/cron.weekly,v retrieving revision 1.22 diff -u -3 -p -u -r1.22 cron.weekly --- debian/cron.weekly 8 Jan 2008 17:01:44 -0000 1.22 +++ debian/cron.weekly 9 Jan 2008 17:36:06 -0000 @@ -26,6 +26,22 @@ if [ -n "$HTTP_PROXY" ]; then export http_proxy="$HTTP_PROXY"; fi +# Sleep a random number of seconds to avoid all clients connecting to +# the server at the same time. Based on code from the cron-apt and +# sitesummary package. +if [ -n "$RUNSLEEP" ] ; then + if [ $RUNSLEEP -gt 0 ] ; then + if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then + # A fix for shells that do not have this bash feature. + RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -c"1-5" +) + fi + TIME=$(($RANDOM % $RUNSLEEP)) + sleep $TIME + fi +fi + + # keep old logs cd /var/log umask 022 Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
