microsoft / microsoft/VFSForGit
Coordinate background jobs between all mount processes on the system
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affects: performance
type: enhancement
- Dominant language
- C#
- Stars
- 6.1k
- Forks
- 474
- Avg merge
- 2d 4h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 8
Description
If GVFS.Service brokered the maintenance job queue, we could avoid situations were multiple timers were more-or-less in sync and causing concurrent background jobs across enlistments.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with GVFS.Service and the maintenance job queue described in the issue, then trace how timers run across mount processes. Define how brokered coordination should prevent concurrent jobs across enlistments and identify the tests needed to demonstrate that behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- csharp, git
- Domain
- distributed-systems, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100