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| [04:20] <tsimonq2> When does publisher maintenance typically start? I've heard 6 AM UK time on Sundays but nothing definitive. | |
| [09:20] <cjwatson> tsimonq2: 59 05 * * 0 /srv/launchpad.net/production/launchpad/cronscripts/publishing/cron.daily-ppa >> /srv/launchpad.net/production-logs/lp_publish/cron.ppa.log 2>&1 | |
| [09:21] <cjwatson> One of our more impressively misnamed scripts | |
| [09:35] <tsimonq2> cjwatson: Aha, thanks. | |
| [09:37] <tsimonq2> cjwatson: Wait, so despite the comment in the script and the script naming, this thing is done weekly? | |
| [09:37] <tsimonq2> Hm, looks like it. | |
| [09:37] <tsimonq2> I'd be curious to hear the rationale for that. | |
| [09:47] <cjwatson> tsimonq2: Presumably because running a thing daily that takes several hours is a bit rude. | |
| [09:47] <cjwatson> And nobody ever got round to renaming the thing. | |
| [09:47] <cjwatson> It was probably initially daily. | |
| [09:48] <cjwatson> (And also it should eventually be removed once our publishing machinery is better - it's a workaround.) | |
| [09:54] <tsimonq2> Fair. | |
| [10:12] <tsimonq2> I wonder if that could be sped up if at all possible... I'd imagine the bottleneck is find so the output could be piped to a temp file and then rmdir could run at once? | |
| [10:12] <tsimonq2> (So, get the lock after find runs.) | |
| [10:23] <cjwatson> I doubt that would help measurably. | |
| [10:23] <cjwatson> And the reason this blocks publishing is that it would otherwise be racy. | |
| [10:24] <cjwatson> The correct fix is to chase down all the places where the publisher doesn't do this sort of empty-directory cleanup for itself, I think. (Or it would become irrelevant if we ever do diskless PPAs.) | |