Re: More efficient build farm animal wakeup?

On 2022-11-21 Mo 15:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> The buildfarm server now creates a companion to branches_of_interest.txt
>> called branches_of_interest.json which looks like this:
> ... okay ...
>
>> It updates this every time it does a git fetch, currently every 5 minutes.
> That up-to-five-minute delay, on top of whatever cronjob delay one has
> on one's animals, seems kind of sad. I've gotten kind of spoiled maybe
> by seeing first buildfarm results typically within 15 minutes of a push.
> But if we're trying to improve matters in this area, this doesn't seem
> like quite the way to go.

Well, 5 minutes was originally chosen because it was sufficient for the
purpose for which up to now the server used its mirror. Now we have
added a new purpose we can certainly revisit that. Shall I try 2 minutes
or go down to 1?

>
> But it does seem like this eliminates one expense. Now that you have
> that bit, maybe we could arrange a webhook or something that allows
> branches_of_interest.json to get updated immediately after a push?
>
>

Sure, if you think and extra few seconds is worth saving.

cheers

andrew

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