[Popcon-developers] Bug#462268: Bug#462268: i dont understand this...

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Bill Allombert]
> The number of stable subscription has been raising again before we
> change unstable.

This is true, and I can not explain it.

> The number of machine running unstable is so small that it cannot do
> a difference.

I believe this is false.  As almost all machines in a given time zone
will try to report at the same time (if they got a correct clock), I
believe the 5000 machines reported to run unstable is enough to affect
the result.  As more and more unstable machines was upgraded and
stopped competing for the small time slot used by the other
popcon.debian.org submitters, the number of submissions grew.  And 

> If a DOS did occur, it would take down every web service hosted onnn
> gluck, not just popcon and we would probably hear from it.

Actually, only services being contacted at the same time as popcon
results are submitted, sundays 06:47 for all time zones.  So I believe
it is unlikely we would hear about it, as the DOS situation would be
over very soon, and thus a reload would hide the issue for those
seeing it while accessing other web pages on gluck.debian.org.

As can be seen from <URL: http://popcon.debian.org/ >, the submission
growth has stopped.  After sunday, we should see if the number of
submissions have gone down since I uploaded the package without the
random submission time patch to unstable.  So far the increase since
2008-03-18 has been 794 submissions.  The number of stable submissions
have dropped by 13, and the increase is mostly with installations of
testing.  I'm very curious what these numbers will be on sunday, after
the popcon.debian.org web pages are updated that day. :)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen