Question about pw-ci behavior

[Aaron Conole]

Ali Alnubani <alialnu at nvidia.com> writes:

> 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,

I pushed it live.  I hope this cools off the requests.

> Regards,
> Ali