Merge branch 'develop' into matthew/filter_members

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/storage/transactions.py b/synapse/storage/transactions.py

index c3bc94f56d..b4b479d94c 100644
--- a/synapse/storage/transactions.py
+++ b/synapse/storage/transactions.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from canonicaljson import encode_canonical_json, json
 
 from twisted.internet import defer
 
+from synapse.metrics.background_process_metrics import run_as_background_process
 from synapse.util.caches.descriptors import cached
 
 from ._base import SQLBaseStore
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ class TransactionStore(SQLBaseStore):
     def __init__(self, db_conn, hs):
         super(TransactionStore, self).__init__(db_conn, hs)
 
-        self._clock.looping_call(self._cleanup_transactions, 30 * 60 * 1000)
+        self._clock.looping_call(self._start_cleanup_transactions, 30 * 60 * 1000)
 
     def get_received_txn_response(self, transaction_id, origin):
         """For an incoming transaction from a given origin, check if we have
@@ -271,6 +272,9 @@ class TransactionStore(SQLBaseStore):
         txn.execute(query, (self._clock.time_msec(),))
         return self.cursor_to_dict(txn)
 
+    def _start_cleanup_transactions(self):
+        run_as_background_process("cleanup_transactions", self._cleanup_transactions)
+
     def _cleanup_transactions(self):
         now = self._clock.time_msec()
         month_ago = now - 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000