Question about pw-ci behavior

[Ali Alnubani]

On 12/9/25 6:15 PM, Aaron Conole wrote:

> 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.
>
Thank you for helping with this and for the updates,

Regards,
Ali