2022/11/18/sluggishness

So, yeah, today the queue just kind of got slammed for no apparent reason. Unfortunately, the Nix build we currently use means that we can't just tweak config files according to instructions; we have to either tweak existing Nix config files, or write new ones. Or something like that.

...though apparently there is a documented methodology for adding on the config-stuff we need; I just haven't had the brain-cycles to read any substantial docs yet, much less understand what's going on.

We'll get this beast under control eventually. (See 2022/11/16 "upgrade plan" discussion for what our plan was before the current queuesplosion.)

(The queue is now around 260k -- twice as bad as earlier, and much higher than I've ever seen it before.)