portindex updates

[William Davis]

On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:28 PM, William Siegrist wrote:

>
> On Nov 10, 2008, at 1:17 AM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:39:17AM -0800, William Siegrist said:
>> [...]
>>>
>>> The index makes no noticeable impact on server load.  I can run it  
>>> as
>>> often as you want. I havnt timed it on the server lately, but  
>>> assuming
>>> its < 30m, then I can just run it in sync with the rsync server  
>>> updates
>>> which are already every 30m.
>>
>> portindex is run at 0045 right?  The checkin always seems to happen  
>> around
>> 0052, hence my 7-8 minute guess.  Running it here on my local repo,  
>> watching
>> top, it does take up some CPU (>50% of a core), so I wasn't sure how
>> intensive it might be on the server, nor how big of an effect its  
>> intensity
>> would be on the server.
>>
>> If it isn't that bad of a load, we could definitely bump it up to  
>> four to
>> six times a day instead of twice, as a help to upgrade, etc,  
>> commands which
>> use the index; until a better indexing solution is put in place.
>>
>
> PortIndex will now run at 45m after each hour.
>
> -Bill
>


Bill, that is wonderful! Thank you very much, indeed.


William Davis
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