On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:46:15AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> writes: > > > Each Debian popularity-contest submitter is supposed to have a different > > random 128bit popcon ID. However, the popularity-constest server > > <https://popcon.debian.org> receives a lot of submissions with identical > > popcon ID, which cause them to be treated as a single submission. > > Are you getting lots and lots of submissions with one identical popcon ID, > or lots of cases of 10-20 systems duplicating different popcon IDs? I > think those lead to different conclusions.
Both. Yesterday I received the same popcon ID 2600 times, and 4700 differents ID were received two times and 22000 ID were received exactly once. I understand the need for totally identical systems, but then probably it does not make sense for them to report to popcon. A related issue is that the submission time is randomized, but if 2600 systems have identical /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest files, they will report at the same time, causing network spikes. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
