[Popcon-developers] Bug#709892: popularity-contest: Unable to submit report

[Ernest Adrogué]

2014-03-17, 23:22 (+0100); Bill Allombert escriu:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 11:35:27AM +0100, Ernest Adrogué wrote:
> > Hi Bill,
> > 
> > 2014-03- 7, 23:36 (+0100); Bill Allombert escriu:
> > 
> > > Could you tell me what is your timezone ?
> > 
> > Central European Time, UTC+1
> > 
> > > Are you using ntp ? Is it on a server running 24/24 ?
> > 
> > It's a desktop machine, although it's left on most of the time.
> > 
> > There is no ntp server running on this computer, but I have however an ntp
> > client (ntpdate) and a weekly cron job that runs /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian.
> 
> This seems to confirm my hypothesis that too many people are reporting at
> the exact same time. I tried to look at the server traffic data, but there
> is not enough granularity to detect the issue.
> 
> Could you try to run (as root)
> sh -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest
> (you might need to adjust the DAY number in 
> /etc/popularity-contest.conf) to see if it works ?

It did work.  Looks like a server overload problem then.

> In that case, you can try to add in /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest
> sleep 500
> just before
> # keep old logs
> 
> to see whether the extra delay fix the issue.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help tracking this!

Thank you too!

Regards.