Question about pw-ci behavior

[Aaron Conole]

Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> writes:

> Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello Aaron,
>>>
>>> I wanted to share some more statistics,
>>>
>>> I see that requests with the pw-ci user agent are making 3,200–4,200
>>> requests per hour (approximately 50–70 requests per minute).
>>> This volume appears excessive and places strain on the Patchwork server.
>>>
>>> Would you be able to check if polling frequency can be adjusted?
>>
>> I'm adding a few things.  NOTE that pw-ci marks the series as done when
>> the states are 'finished' in the status details.  But for example the
>> listed series is still in a 'valid' state for polling.
>>
>> I'm going to set it to mark for superceding the patches that are expired
>> by 30 days.  That should reduce the polling here.  Just had to deal with
>> a different issue on redirects with a different patchwork server (so I
>> added some new code).
>>
>
> BTW, following is the patch I'm testing out right now just for the 'old'
> ones:
>

I've added a date check to the patch as well, and am locally testing it.
When it looks right, I'll push and there will be one last "large" query
and that should check the dates and expire the outstanding series that
we poll against.