[Popcon-developers] Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

[Witold Baryluk]

On 04-23 12:35, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> >> (BTW, popcon is mainly run from cron so interactive performance is not so
> >> critical.)
> >  
> > The issue is not interactive performances but waste of system resource. Users
> > will complain.
> >
> > Cheers,
> 
> Please do get real. This runs once a week at an ungodly hour. 2s or 30s
> is not going to make a collosal difference. 30s is ~0.005% of the weekly
> cpu time. Other cron jobs take far longer. And 30s is better than not
> working.

Agree. I never ever even seen popcon appearing in my ps aux, when cron triggers
daily jobs. It is always things like mandb, locate, which take LOTS
more CPU time and IO bandwidth. I never seen popcon in process list,
which always brings to me question if it works at all :)

Regards,
Witek


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Witold Baryluk
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