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2 | author: Martinp23 |
| 3 | date: 2012-04-06 20:33:38+00:00 | |
| 4 | slug: database-prune | |
| 5 | title: Database prune | |
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6 | category: community |
| 7 | category: development | |
| 8 | category: freenode | |
| 9 | category: infrastructure | |
| 10 | category: technical | |
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14 | Every couple of years, freenode likes to get out the shears and prune the services database. Recently we broke the 80,000 usercount barrier, but the services stats are way ahead: |
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16 | > Sat 13:35:46 -OperServ(OperServ@services.)- Registered accounts: 446777<br> |
| 17 | > Sat 13:35:46 -OperServ(OperServ@services.)- Registered nicknames: 557497<br> | |
| 18 | > Sat 13:35:47 -OperServ(OperServ@services.)- Registered channels: 141373<br> | |
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| 20 | We've noticed that nearly half of the accounts shown there haven't been used in | |
| 21 | the past 6 months! More importantly, over the past few months many people have | |
| 22 | noticed significant waits when issuing certain services commands - and we'd | |
| 23 | like to fix that. | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | Hopefully, the [services | |
| 26 | upgrade](http://blog.freenode.net/2012/04/help-us-test-our-services-upgrade/) | |
| 27 | should help with this, but we're going to coincide this with a database prune. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | As of the services upgrade date, any nicks unused for > 150 days are at risk of | |
| 30 | being dropped. This includes grouped nicks. The easy way to avoid this | |
| 31 | happening is to use each of your grouped nicks (while identified to the | |
| 32 | appropriate account) within the next few weeks - and to drop those that you | |
| 33 | don't need anymore! | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | The testnet (testnet.freenode.net, port 9002. 9003 for SSL) is running a | |
| 36 | database snapshot from mid-March and will be periodically updated from the | |
| 37 | production network. This database instance is being regularly pruned - so check | |
| 38 | there to see how your account will be affected (use /msg nickserv info on both | |
| 39 | the production and test networks to see the differences). | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | Remember that testnet isn't running a real-time duplicate of the production | |
| 42 | network, so when you use nicks which would be expired on the production | |
| 43 | network, they will still appear expired on testnet until the next database | |
| 44 | snapshot is migrated. Don't worry though - the actual pruning will only occur | |
| 45 | on the current database at the time of upgrade. | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | On which note.. an upgrade date hasn't been formally fixed but we're aiming for | |
| 48 | mid-May. | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | Thanks, and don't forget to [test the | |
| 51 | testnet](http://blog.freenode.net/2012/04/help-us-test-our-services-upgrade/)! |