nandi/glean · 49c0781

⑂ 49c0781

Let the Modal container scale to zero

The always-warm container existed to keep the background workers running
continuously; accept them pausing while idle instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

nandithebull committed 2026-09-21T19:10:59-07:00 Browse files

49c0781 parent: 351bd41

@@ -151,9 +151,10 @@ def _snapshot_loop(stop: threading.Event) -> None:
151	151	# Single writer: SQLite tolerates exactly one process writing these files,
152	152	# and the snapshot scheme assumes one container owns the data.
153	153	max_containers=1,
154		- # Glean's background workers (Jetstream consumer, PDS sync, clustering,
155		- # feed fetch) only run while a container is alive, so keep one alive.
156		- min_containers=1,
	154	+ # Scale to zero when idle: Glean's background workers (Jetstream consumer,
	155	+ # PDS sync, clustering, feed fetch) only run while a container is alive, so
	156	+ # they pause between requests and resume on the next one.
	157	+ min_containers=0,
157	158	scaledown_window=1200,
158	159	timeout=24 * 60 * 60,
159	160	cpu=2,

      # Single writer: SQLite tolerates exactly one process writing these files,
      # and the snapshot scheme assumes one container owns the data.
      max_containers=1,
--    # Glean's background workers (Jetstream consumer, PDS sync, clustering,
++    # Scale to zero when idle: Glean's background workers (Jetstream consumer,
--    # feed fetch) only run while a container is alive, so keep one alive.
++    # PDS sync, clustering, feed fetch) only run while a container is alive, so
--    min_containers=1,
++    # they pause between requests and resume on the next one.
++    min_containers=0,
      scaledown_window=1200,
      timeout=24 * 60 * 60,
      cpu=2,