Commit 41049688 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'docs-check-background-migrations' into 'master'

Add info about checking background_migration queue

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!20219
parents 1895f8d9 42fea691
......@@ -69,7 +69,13 @@ before continuing the upgrading procedure. While this won't require downtime
between upgrading major/minor releases, allowing the background migrations to
finish. The time necessary to complete these migrations can be reduced by
increasing the number of Sidekiq workers that can process jobs in the
`background_migration` queue.
`background_migration` queue. To check the size of this queue,
[start a Rails console session](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/maintenance/#starting-a-rails-console-session)
and run the command below:
```ruby
Sidekiq::Queue.new('background_migration').size
```
As a rule of thumb, any database smaller than 10 GB won't take too much time to
upgrade; perhaps an hour at most per minor release. Larger databases however may
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