On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:40:37PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
+# Select a random day to submit on, to spread the load over time, unless it
is already set.
+select_random_day() {
+ RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2 /dev/null | cksum | cut
-c1-5)
+
[Bill Allombert]
We move the popcon cronjob to cron.dayly, and pick a random weekday
for each submitter. The dayly cronjob check if it is running on this
weekday before reporting, else it abort immediatly.
Here is a draft patch to implement this. It does not address the
renaming/moving of the
I cannot find any reference to it now, but somebody suggested the
following solution to spread the load more evenly:
1. Move the cron job to cron.hourly.
2. Let the cron job keep track of when statistics were last reported.
3. If more than a week has elapsed since the last time statistics were
[Bill Allombert]
I asked for feedback from Holger about the DOS issue and got nothing.
I assume you are talking about the Is it possible to get more data on
this issue, like the relevant apache logs ? question in bug #459910.
As far as I know, Holger is not a Debian sysadmin, so I doubt he got
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:23:22PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 03:49:39PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
I would like to keep popularity-contest out of testing for
1) See how many people use sid versus testing
2) give us a chance to address the DOS issue in a better
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:44:59PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
It won't be removed from testing. Instead the new version will not
propagate to testing and testing will stay with 1.42 and sid will have
1.43 so it will be easy to discriminate systems running testing from
system running sid,
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