Wrap a number of things that run in the background

This will reduce the number of "Starting db connection from sentinel context"
warnings, and will help with our metrics.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/groups/attestations.py b/synapse/groups/attestations.py
index 47452700a8..4216af0a27 100644
--- a/synapse/groups/attestations.py
+++ b/synapse/groups/attestations.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from signedjson.sign import sign_json
 from twisted.internet import defer
 
 from synapse.api.errors import SynapseError
+from synapse.metrics.background_process_metrics import run_as_background_process
 from synapse.types import get_domain_from_id
 from synapse.util.logcontext import run_in_background
 
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ class GroupAttestionRenewer(object):
         self.attestations = hs.get_groups_attestation_signing()
 
         self._renew_attestations_loop = self.clock.looping_call(
-            self._renew_attestations, 30 * 60 * 1000,
+            self._start_renew_attestations, 30 * 60 * 1000,
         )
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
@@ -151,6 +152,9 @@ class GroupAttestionRenewer(object):
 
         defer.returnValue({})
 
+    def _start_renew_attestations(self):
+        run_as_background_process("renew_attestations", self._renew_attestations)
+
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def _renew_attestations(self):
         """Called periodically to check if we need to update any of our attestations