Re: Perl Magpie, a next-generation CPAN Testers reporting platform

On 17/04/2025 04:45, Doug Bell wrote:
> There are two Bytemark servers, the first of which I don't know the 
> story, the second of which is donated by Bytemark care of Neil Bowers:
> 
> * cpantesters3.dh.bytemark.co.uk <http:// 
> cpantesters3.dh.bytemark.co.uk> is 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 
> 3.40GHz / 32G memory and has about 1.5TB of hard disk space as the 
> previous database host. This runs the legacy bits that I haven't been 
> able to shut down yet. At last years summit I finally got it below a 12 
> load average by giving up on perfect backwards compatibility and moving 
> almost all of the web app to...
> 
> * cpantesters4.dh.bytemark.co.uk <http:// 
> cpantesters4.dh.bytemark.co.uk> is 1x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4160 CPU @ 
> 3.60GHz / 8G memory and has about an 80G hard drive. This is serving 
> most of the web application these days.
> 
> Then there are two ServerCentral servers, both of which are nominally in 
> the hands of Joel Berger (as he still works there):
> 
> * The current primary database is 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620  @ 
> 2.40GHz / 32G memory with a 2TB hard drive about 75% full of the 
> database data
> 
> * The backup database is 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5620  @ 2.40GHz / 16G 
> memory, and I can't find the hard drives so it's not actually backing up 
> anything. Will have to ask Joel to get someone to open the rack and 
> fiddle with it.
> 
> Finally, there's the monitoring system that I'm hosting:
> 
> * status.cpantesters.org <http://status.cpantesters.org> is a VPS with 1 
> core and 1 GB memory with a 40G hard drive running InfluxDB, telegraf, 
> and Grafana.

This is very interesting information. Thanks for providing it. Do you 
think the github org could get a repository for documenting this? :)

Also, i found something interesting in the status panels which is a bit 
incongruent. This page has data on jobs processed, and it also includes 
a list of errors:

http://status.cpantesters.org/grafana/d/000000004/reports?orgId=1&from=1742112803397&to=1744877603397

One example of such an error is this, and the table says this job was 
processed on 2025-04-16T12:46:14Z.

{"error":"'\/MooX-StrictConstructor-0.013.tar.gz' can't be parsed as a 
CPAN distfile at 
\/home\/cpantesters\/perl5\/lib\/perl5\/Metabase\/Resource\/cpan\/distfile.pm 
line 73.\n\tMetabase::Resource::cp	

What stands out here is that this distribution was uploaded on 
2024-10-18, so this kind of error has likely been occurring a lot. Is 
that significant and possibly related to the outages?

-- 
With regards,
Christian Walde