On 9/20/24 11:15 AM, Shubham Kanodia wrote:
The current git-maintenance prefetch command allows daily, weekly, and hourly schedules. However, in repositories with many active developers, timing `fetch` to happen at the same wall clock time can lead to a thundering herd problem for the backend server. Ideally, these fetch requests would be spaced out by a small amount, so as not to lead to a co-ordinated load on the server. I don't see a way to configure this at the moment in a cross-platform way at the moment. Perhaps it might be sensible to offset the cron schedules slightly for users so as to not cause such an issue?
This is already handled by using a random minute of the hour, as implemented in 9b43399057 (maintenance: use random minute in cron scheduler, 2023-08-10), for example. There are similar uses for systemd, launchctl, and schtasks schedulers (look for uses of the get_random_minute() method). Are you noticing that this isn't working as expected? Thanks, -Stolee
