On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Diab Jerius <d...@head.cfa.harvard.edu> wrote: > > The latest CPAN Tester's summary indicates disk i/o is the bottleneck > for digesting reports; does this mean that AWS is no longer part of the > problem? Would throwing money at new hardware help?
There are two pieces: (a) metabase.cpantesters.org, which receives reports (b) www.cpantesters.org, which displays reports The problem with (a) is that it's still using Amazon SimpleDB, and their definition of "eventually consistent" for that product is something not unlike how Perl 6 will be released "eventually". :-) I jest, but seriously, when www.cpantesters.org queries metabase to get new reports, we often miss some. There may yet be issues with (b), but mostly, we think it's the handoff between (a) and (b) that is the major problem and until that's fixed its hard to diagnose what else is going on. Fixing (a) requires some medium-large servers that I can use to set up an alternate backend. We're waiting on one, donated by a large Perl-using company. More would help. Donations to the CPAN Testers fund would also help. http://www.enlightenedperl.org/donations.html That said, the biggest shortage is my own manpower to do the migration. If I had servers live and waiting for me, I'd probably feel guilty enough to get it done, but meanwhile, puttering along, missing occasional reports has been something I'm willing to tolerate. David -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Take back your inbox! → http://www.bunchmail.com/ Twitter/IRC: @xdg
