Gav... wrote: > > I've altered the zone setup to point to Java 1.5 Thanks. However please note that most scripts and config are under version control in the forrest/zone SVN. So don't just edit them on the server.
http://forrest.apache.org/zone.html > I've also set the recipient to myself initially to see what if any failures > come in so I can sort them so as to avoid spamming the list during the > transition. > > ---- > > On another note, I see we still have our cronjobs set to 2 hourly. > > One of them updates the trunk source every two odd hours. > > The other three build our versions and run them every two even hours. > > It was moved from 1 hour to two hours due to > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1061 > > I would say that issue is solved now, especially with the recent svn > upgrades. Yes, we should try again. From memory it was mainly about network and I/O troubles on helios. > However, I have another solution that makes better sense imho. That doesn't solve FOR-1061 if the slowness behaviour re-appears. Your idea surely will help, so yeah go for it. > We should go back to 'checking svn'; every hour for new commits, but ONLY do > an 'svn update' IF > any commits have happened during that time. The same for the builds, why > keep rebuilding every > hour or two hours if the source hasn't changed ? > > Take this January and February for example where only 1 commit in each month > took place. > During that time the zone would have done an svn update and rebuild three > sites approximately > 700 times in that period, 698 of them needlessly. > > So, I propose that we instead do a script like this: > > ----------------- > svn st -u | grep * > > if [ $? = 0 ]; then > > svn up > > /export/home/config/update-forrest-trunk.sh > > else > > fi > ----------------- Be careful with that bare asterisk. I wonder how expensive the 'svn st -u' is. Anyway, rebuilding only when neccessary is certainly good, so please do. -David > We then change the cronjob to run the above script every hour instead, and > will do nothing if no commit has happened in that time. I've been running > this on Buildbot for a year now and works great. > > Thoughts? > > Gav...
