[SAC] Fair projectsVM usage (esp. Openlayers)

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Feb 12, 2012, at 7:30 AM, ext Hamish wrote:

> christopher wrote:
>> Looks like naturaldocs got stuck in a loop. That script is
>> part of a cron job that runs every hour, so killing it if i
>> it ever gets in that state is a perfectly reasonable
>> response.
>> (I've gone ahead and done so now.)
> 
> suggest to have the hourly cron job begin by 'pgrep -c'ing for itself
> and pkill'ing the old one if it has not completed. &/or spamming the
> job's owner when that happens.  (will the new one just suffer the same
> loop-fate as the previous?)

Since the job has been running every hour since that one started
without failing, it seems unlikely, otherwise we'd have a whole
stack of them. I've seen it fail in this way precisely twice in
the two years since we moved to the projects server; to be honest,
any software work at this point is probably overkill, but:

  https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/blob/master/tools/update_dev_dir.sh

patches welcome ;)

-- Chris

> 
> 
> (& run it niced too :)
> 
> 
> Hamish
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