[Tilesathome] Processing delays

[spaetz]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 09:16:38AM -0400, Milenko wrote:
> What's the cause of the ever-increasing processing delay on the t at h server?
> http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/dev.openstreetmap-tah_delay.html
> 
> Seems to have started when we took the break over the weekend that the new API was implemented.

The "oldest unprocessed" is just the age of the oldest uploaded yet unprocessed tileset. Usually a .txt and a .zip file exists with the same name and the server looks for .txt files (which contain the meta data). However in some weird cases (aborted uploads?) there is only a .zip file lying around and never looked at.

That's why and when the oldest unprocessed graph gets out of control, it's nothing serious though. The server should just be a little smarter and clean up those files itself, but it currently doesn't. I might improve this if I find some time.

spaetz