[openspending-dev] Server issues?

[Adam Stiles]

Thanks, Tryggvi! If it is possible to show how long the wait time is,
that seems like a very useful feature. If I knew how long it was going
to take, maybe a progress bar, or even the reason like "big datasets
currently loading, may be slower than usual" -- I don't think people
mind occasionally waiting a bit longer. But when the user doesn't
know, we assume something's broken when in fact it's doing exactly
what it's supposed to do. If this does get worked on, let me know; I'm
curious about the programming of it.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Tryggvi Björgvinsson
<tryggvi.bjorgvinsson at okfn.org> wrote:
> On mið 12.feb 2014 19:43, Adam Stiles wrote:
>
> Hi -- trying to upload a dataset to openspending.org and it's "still
> analyzing" for over an hour. Is the system down? Thanks.
>
>
> Hi Adam (and everybody),
>
> The system is up and running and we have four processes running through the
> queue of tasks. These tasks are both loading data and analysing data and the
> system goes through it in order. This means that if there are many big
> datasets being loaded it blocks everything else like is happening now.
>
> This is a well known problem. One solution to it would be to separate the
> queues so that loading big datasets doesn't block analysis and I just
> created a ticket for it:
> https://github.com/openspending/openspending/issues/766
>
> Then we could provide more information to let people know how long the queue
> is (this would also help people who are waiting for their datasets to load).
> Everton made this feature request 2 months ago:
> https://github.com/openspending/openspending/issues/729
>
> There's also the possibility of somehow increasing processing workers
> automatically when queue size gets too big. This feature was requested by
> Leandro Martelli also 2 months ago:
> https://github.com/openspending/openspending/issues/730
>
> So if there are any takers on these issues the please go ahead and make
> openspending better for all of us. This would be a big help and you would be
> loved until the end of times (or something like that)!
>
>
> --
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> Tryggvi Björgvinsson
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