[Popcon-developers] Debian popcon will soon pass 70 000 submissions

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Bill Allombert]
> When http submissions fails, we revert to smtp submissions anyway,
> so we probably do not lose too much subscribtion.

Well, that is assuming most machines have working /usr/sbin/sendmail.
I doubt that is true any more. :(

At least my laptop do not have it. :)

> I dislike very much the new random sleep code. If the computer is
> shut down during the delay, then the report is lost, and we do not
> revert to SMTP.

Not to happy about it either, but do not see any good alternatives.

> It would be much better to randomize the time the cronjob run, but
> we cannot do that with cron.weekly.

Yeah.  We could generate a cron.d entry during installation, but I
would rather keep the cron entry as a conffile.

> Ubuntu seems to deal with five time more HTTP submissions without
> problems though.

Perhaps they have better hardware?

No idea if the random sleep will solve the problem or not.  Would be
useful to know how the server load is when most reports come in.  We
will see if it improves.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen