[Popcon-developers] Bug#462268: Bug#462268: popcon: stay out of lenny for a while

[pere@hungry.com (Petter Reinholdtsen)]

[Bill Allombert]
> I asked for feedback from Holger about the DOS issue and got nothing. So
> I rather thing the DOS issue was temporary due to external network issue
> and not a real issue we need to adress. At least I will assume that
> until I get real data. The stable submissions increased even while we
> made no change to unstable.

OK.  I suspect you are mistaken.  Lets test your theory by reverting
the change, and see if the number of submissions drop, stay the same
or increase.  If it was a temporary issue, the submission count should
stay stable or increase, and if it was a real issue, the count should
drop in 20 days.  What do you say?

> I have the following proposal:
> 
> 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.
> 
> This spread the load on the whole week  (this reduce network bandwidth
> issue more that the 1.43 scheme) and does not require a cron.d entry.

Sounds good to me, but lets test the temporary DOS theory first.
Another think we could do is to check how long it is since the last
report, and submit if it is more than a week since the last upload.
If this check is done more than once a day, we might even get some
laptops which are turned on during the night. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen