847651 - puppet manifests for running hg/git conversions continually on boot

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 927199

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Ideally this means we point a clean box at puppet, and it installs everything needed and starts up whatever processes are needed to run the conversion processes at boot.

Currently we use screen and manual setup; this needs to be automatic.

_ figure out way to run continuously without screen (cron-based; daemon based?)
_ figure out how to start automatically on boot

I'm not sure how we'll spawn off multiple processes and split them up so we take advantage of all cores... something like httpd spawning N child processes up to some configurable limit?  Manually splitting and balancing jobs into N config files?

We may need to split across multiple machines as well, so we'd need to make sure each repo is covered by exactly one of those machines.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Is this still an issue with the new vcs sync software?

Comment 2

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Yes, vcssync{1,2} were built by hand.

Comment 3

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

vcssync{3,4} puppetized is bug 927199; let's track this in there.