Importer stopped since Sunday?

[James Westby]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:08:25 +0100, Max Bowsher <_ at maxb.eu> wrote:
> It looks like someone stopped the UDD importer on Sunday?
> 
> James W. has a 'crontab -e' editor open from around that time.
> 
> Anyone know what's going on, and if it's safe to restart?
> 
> We're failing rather dismally at providing prompt imports at the moment.

Hi,

Firstly my apologies for not sending a mail about this at the time.

Some time on Saturday night the importer started failing hard with
sqlite contention errors. The mass-import process was stuck, so nothing
was being imported, and the cronjobs were failing causing two emails to
be sent every 5 minutes.

Given that nothing was being imported anyway, I stopped the process
until I would have more time to investigate after the long weekend.

I suspect the changes are somehow related to my storm changes, but I
don't know what the relationship is yet. It ran fine for a couple of
days, so we should be fine to restart and process the queue. It may well
fail again though.

Thanks,

James