Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (88 mails)

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 24.02.20 um 13:17 schrieb Michael Schroeder:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 01:04:04PM +0100, Carsten Höger wrote:
> > I recently noticed that this file is quite huge in our installation:
> >
> > 2.8G /srv/obs/events/lastnotifications
> >
> > Can this file be removed?
>
> Nope.
>
> > It looks like a logfile to me with new entries added at the end.
> > Is some component of OBS reading the content of that file?
>
> It's a queue of notifications. The API is supposed to read it, read
> events are deleted and thus the file shrinks.>
> A lastnotifications file that big is an indication that the
> delayed job for notification processing is not running in the API.

It is also possible that there is an "invalid" entry in the lastevents file 
(UTF-8 anyone?)
and the backend chokes on that line every time.

I had this some (12-36?) months ago, not sure if I reported it here.
Cleaning up this one line then made the lastevents processor continue.

You should find cryptic messages in the logs when this happens.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

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