[mythtv] Committing patch to randomise mythfilldatabase times?

[William Uther]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:59:35 -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:

> * On Fri Jan 19, 2007 at 08:19:34AM +1100, William Uther wrote:
>>    Sitting in bug #2194 there is a patch to randomise when
>> mythfilldatabase is run.  Is there any chance of getting this into
>> 0.21?  The Aus TV guide data site is seeing load spikes and it would
>> be very useful to smooth them out.  I've been running this patch for
>> a while and it works.  It already incorporates a bunch of discussion
>> from last time...
>
> I was looking at this again the other day and thinking about  
> putting it
> in even without the other larger related changes that were  
> mentioned in
> the original thread a while back.

Thank you!  :)

> I think it makes sense to try to alleviate some of the load on the
> listings servers in the short-term until other changes mentioned can
> be worked on.

It certainly does :).

BTW - I wrote that patch for XMLTV grabbers.  I've looked at the code  
and it shouldn't interact with the DataDirect "grab when we tell you"  
stuff, but I haven't tested that (I have tested it for XMLTV).

Will          :-}