[OSM-talk] 12am Freeze

[Grant Slater]

Ben Ward wrote:
> Is there anything that happens at 12am most nights that would stop me 
> from uploading/downloading OSM data using JOSM effectively?  Almost 
> without fail I give up editing around the same time when uploads of 
> about 10 nodes take more than 5 minutes and I decide bed seems more 
> attractive.
>
> Is this just a user load issue or a process which kicks off at 
> midnight that could be moved to a time when us volunteers are actually 
> doing day jobs? 
>

At midnight 
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/www.openstreetmap.org/ruby/stats/stats.rb 
fires to update the daily stats: 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html

It's likely a DB locking issue.