[Patchwork-maintainers] patchwork.ozlabs.org downtime for maintenance - 15/16 August

[Aaron Conole]

Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org> writes:

> Hi Ilya,
>
>> Ugh.  Yeah, the checks/ requests are definitely something we can
>> improve. Aaron is working on removing vast majority of this type of
>> requests as we speak.  Hopefully, that will be done soon.
>
> OK, sounds good!
>
>> Do you think it'll be fine to unban the robot once it doesn't run that
>> many requests on the checks/ API in particular?  (I expect the number
>> of requests to be less than a 100-ish per day after the fix.)
>
> Yes, definitely. I'm okay with unbanning it sooner, if it's doing useful
> stuff, and we can contain the load somewhat, and/or we need to test
> against production data.

Thanks for help identifying the API usage - I've pushed a new series
that should reduce it quite a bit.  I'm hoping we can unban the RH
robot.

If it continues to show issues, we can address it as well.

> (more that I wasn't sure if it was a legitimate use of the API
> earlier, hence reducing the load via the nft rule)

I've added a custom set of user agents so we can see that it is at least
our set of patchwork polling / updating CI scripts.  Hopefully that also
will help to characterize if the robot is doing too heavy of a workload.

>> That might be useful, thanks!
>
> OK, I will send that separately.

Thanks!

> Cheers,
>
>
> Jeremy