Bug#1035960: All of sudden, the Spanish PO debconf templates is getting full of alien translators :-)

Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> Fri, 12 May 2023 12:04:13 +0200

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Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> (2023-05-12):
> I'll keeping looking at what's supposed to happen on tye, but I'm not
> sure I'll be able to get to the bottom of it on my own.

At least there's a HUGE red flag on tye. Load to the roof, RAM/swap
almost full, lots of dl10n-spider processes running for the same
language, some of them started May 9th.

    kibi@tye:~$ uptime
     10:02:58 up 12 days, 21:47,  2 users,  load average: 63.24, 64.57, 66.51

    kibi@tye:~$ free -h
                   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           1.9Gi       1.7Gi        69Mi       1.0Mi       125Mi        57Mi
    Swap:          511Mi       511Mi       0.0Ki

    kibi@tye:~$ ps faux|grep dl10n-spider|grep -o -- '--check-bts ..'|sort|uniq -c
          4 --check-bts ca
          1 --check-bts cs
          1 --check-bts da
         51 --check-bts de
          7 --check-bts es
          2 --check-bts fr

    kibi@tye:~$ ps faux|awk '/CRON/ {print $9}'|sort|uniq -c
         11 May09
         23 May10
         23 May11
          1 00:15
          1 02:15
          1 03:15
          1 04:15
          1 05:15
          1 06:15
          1 07:15
          1 08:13
          1 08:15
          1 09:15
          2 10:00
          1 10:01

Note that many de.po occurrences appear in the status file for other
languages, looks like processes heavily stomping onto others' feet?


It looks to me there should be some locking at the very least to avoid
that amount of concurrency. And that it would probably be best to start
afresh, killing all those processes, maybe disabling the cron jobs,
cleaning temporary and maybe corrupted data files, and triggering a
single run manually to see if it works.

But then, I have 0 knowledge about the spider, and I'll leave that up to
someone else: I don't want to risk making the matter worse!


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois ([email protected])            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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