Re: O(n) tasks cause lengthy startups and checkpoints

On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 09:51:10AM -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> Here's a new revision where I've attempted to address all the feedback I've
> received thus far.  Notably, the custodian now uses a queue for registering
> tasks and determining which tasks to execute.  Other changes include
> splitting the temporary file functions apart to avoid consecutive boolean
> flags, using a timestamp instead of an integer for the staging name for
> temporary directories, moving temporary directories to a dedicated
> directory so that the custodian doesn't need to scan relation files,
> ERROR-ing when something goes wrong when cleaning up temporary files,
> executing requested tasks immediately in single-user mode, and more.

Here is a rebased patch set for cfbot.  There are no other differences
between v7 and v8.

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