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Scriptworker hangs if script writes really long line

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
devops

Research direction

Start by reading client/balrogclient/api.py lines 155-160 and tracing the Balrogscript log-writing path described in the issue. Re-run the balrogworker submit-toplevel scenario with the roughly 600k output blob, then verify that scriptworker log processing completes without hanging.

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Description

If a balrogworker submit-toplevel task is re-run after all the balrog submit jobs, then the blob printed out by balrogclient here is on the order of 600k. This cause the log processing on scriptworker to hang (or something). Balrogscript currently writes logs synchronously, which meant it hung trying to write the log.

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Python
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Merged PRs (30d)
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