I noticed this in the gopherbot logs recently, and it's possible to reproduce locally in dry-run mode. Gopherbot keeps on repeating some actions every iteration. These actions don't have an effect, and so gopherbot never stops repeating them.
2018/10/22 07:44:15 got corpus update after 252.395017ms
2018/10/22 07:44:15 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536
2018/10/22 07:44:15 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536...
2018/10/22 07:44:15 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537
2018/10/22 07:44:15 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537...
2018/10/22 07:44:16 closing scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71730 ...
2018/10/22 07:44:16 closing scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71850 ...
2018/10/22 07:44:16 closing scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72090 ...
2018/10/22 07:44:16 closing scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72091 ...
2018/10/22 07:44:16 closing scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72110 ...
2018/10/22 07:44:16 closing scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72131 ...
2018/10/22 07:44:16 gopherbot ran in 1.335854405s
Reproduce Steps
$ go get -u golang.org/x/build/cmd/gopherbot
$ go run golang.org/x/build/cmd/gopherbot -dry-run -daemon
2018/10/22 14:27:47 Loading data from log *maintner.netMutSource ...
2018/10/22 14:27:47 Downloading 39043 bytes of https://maintner.golang.org/logs/41 ...
2018/10/22 14:27:47 wrote /Users/dmitshur/Library/Caches/golang-maintner/0041.growing.mutlog
2018/10/22 14:27:55 Reloaded data from log *maintner.netMutSource.
2018/10/22 14:27:56 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536
2018/10/22 14:27:56 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536...
2018/10/22 14:27:56 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537
2018/10/22 14:27:56 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537...
2018/10/22 14:27:56 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71730 ...
2018/10/22 14:27:56 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71850 ...
2018/10/22 14:27:56 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72090 ...
2018/10/22 14:27:56 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72091 ...
2018/10/22 14:27:56 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72110 ...
2018/10/22 14:27:56 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72131 ...
2018/10/22 14:27:56 gopherbot ran in 1.434313646s
2018/10/22 14:27:56 Updating data from log *maintner.netMutSource ...
2018/10/22 14:29:22 Downloading 1242 bytes of https://maintner.golang.org/logs/41 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:22 wrote /Users/dmitshur/Library/Caches/golang-maintner/0041.growing.mutlog
2018/10/22 14:29:22 Reloaded data from log *maintner.netMutSource.
2018/10/22 14:29:22 got corpus update after 1m25.647922592s
2018/10/22 14:29:23 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536
2018/10/22 14:29:23 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537
2018/10/22 14:29:23 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71730 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71850 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72090 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72091 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72110 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72131 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 gopherbot ran in 860.347827ms
2018/10/22 14:29:23 Updating data from log *maintner.netMutSource ...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 Downloading 1317 bytes of https://maintner.golang.org/logs/41 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:23 wrote /Users/dmitshur/Library/Caches/golang-maintner/0041.growing.mutlog
2018/10/22 14:29:23 gerrit code.googlesource.com/gocloud: Ref {CLNumber:34491 Version:0} => 4702bd58135b78127c759a94658b7606e5445e46
2018/10/22 14:29:23 Reloaded data from log *maintner.netMutSource.
2018/10/22 14:29:23 got corpus update after 195.853575ms
2018/10/22 14:29:24 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536
2018/10/22 14:29:24 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536...
2018/10/22 14:29:24 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537
2018/10/22 14:29:24 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537...
2018/10/22 14:29:24 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71730 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:24 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71850 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:24 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72090 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:24 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72091 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:24 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72110 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:24 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72131 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:24 gopherbot ran in 726.996791ms
2018/10/22 14:29:24 Updating data from log *maintner.netMutSource ...
2018/10/22 14:29:41 Downloading 37 bytes of https://maintner.golang.org/logs/41 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:41 wrote /Users/dmitshur/Library/Caches/golang-maintner/0041.growing.mutlog
2018/10/22 14:29:41 Reloaded data from log *maintner.netMutSource.
2018/10/22 14:29:41 got corpus update after 17.501948429s
2018/10/22 14:29:42 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536
2018/10/22 14:29:42 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135536...
2018/10/22 14:29:42 No reviewers or cc: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537
2018/10/22 14:29:42 Adding no-owners tag to change https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/gddo/+/135537...
2018/10/22 14:29:42 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71730 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:42 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/71850 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:42 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72090 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:42 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72091 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:42 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72110 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:42 [dry-run] would've closed scratch CL https://golang.org/cl/72131 ...
2018/10/22 14:29:42 gopherbot ran in 723.348371ms
2018/10/22 14:29:42 Updating data from log *maintner.netMutSource ...
It's pretty harmless, but would be nice to fix.
The underlying issues causing this are:
Fixing those issues should resolve this issue.
/cc @bradfitz @andybons
I noticed this in the gopherbot logs recently, and it's possible to reproduce locally in dry-run mode. Gopherbot keeps on repeating some actions every iteration. These actions don't have an effect, and so gopherbot never stops repeating them.
Reproduce Steps
It's pretty harmless, but would be nice to fix.
The underlying issues causing this are:
Fixing those issues should resolve this issue.
/cc @bradfitz @andybons