[hibernate-dev] irc team meetings and jbott

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 21 Jan 2014, at 16:11, Steve Ebersole wrote:

> The issue with slowness of ending the meeting was annoying yes.  
> Thanks for finding that.
>
> The other issue is that jbott is sometimes just not there.  It drops 
> off quite a bit.  To give you a flavor, here is its drops from just 
> yesterday:
>
> 01:44 *** jbott <jbott!supybot at nat/redhat/x-kcdixxnxtyoqqrjn> has quit 
> IRC (Ping timeout: 272 seconds)
> 14:03 *** jbott <jbott!supybot at nat/redhat/x-bftkgoghfxdwibyf> has quit 
> IRC (Ping timeout: 272 seconds)
> 22:19 *** jbott <jbott!supybot at nat/redhat/x-wxdxevjybbitcevv> has quit 
> IRC (Ping timeout: 252 seconds)
> 23:23 *** jbott <jbott!supybot at nat/redhat/x-cafuloaglxdbvmqg> has quit 
> IRC (Ping timeout: 265 seconds)

So yeah, these drops was caused by jbott taking ages to sync - while it 
was syncing free node was pinging if it was alive and apparently subybot 
is single threaded so it lost the connection while it was spending 3-10 
minutes on syncing.

I've fixed that now by having rsync ignore 2011,2012 and 2013 folders.

Thus assuming I'm right and done the fixes properly these dropouts 
should not happen anymore and the sync/response for end meeting and 
start meeting should be much faster and more consistent. Let me know if 
you observe it differently.

> There has been at least one occasion when we had a meeting and jbott 
> was simply not in the room the entire time.

Yeah, if that happens something is most likely wrong with its network 
connection - but I can see the bot have been running for ~5 months 
straight now and last time I restarted it was because of network change 
in neuchatel.

Thus if you see it missing let me know - something must have occurred 
that the startup script is not considering but for now I haven't seen 
that.

I've sent mail to core about the changes to let others know.

/max

>
> On Tue 21 Jan 2014 07:45:08 AM CST, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>
>> so I found whats wrong - the jbott been running for 4 years and one 
>> of
>> the things it does when ending meetings is regenerating indexes
>> ....that was fast the first couple of years....now its turned "slow"
>> because it happens sequentially ;)
>>
>> I'll see what I can do to fix that dumb logic.
>>
>> /max
>>
>>
>> On 21 Jan 2014, at 14:36, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>
>>>> We have been having a lot of trouble lately with relying on jbott 
>>>> to
>>>> record the team meetings on irc.  A few times jbott has not been in 
>>>> the
>>>> room.  A few times it refuses to start/end meetings.
>>>>
>>>> Max, is there anything to be done to make jbott more stable?
>>>
>>> jbott had been running for months without problems (at least none
>>> known to me) - then there was
>>> a network disconnect at neuchatel office which meant it was off for 
>>> a
>>> bit and then came back on.
>>>
>>> I know that it has gotten slower at ending meetings, i.e. it now
>>> takes some minutes
>>> for it to upload instead of seconds as in past. I can look into
>>> speeding that up if that is the
>>> problem you are seeing.
>>>
>>> Is that what you are seeing ?
>>>
>>> /max