Brion Vibber schrieb:
* Various special pages are so slow they've been
disabled. Most of them
could be made much more efficient with better queries and/or by
maintaining summary tables. Some remaining ones are also pretty
inefficient, like the Watchlist. Someone needs to look into these and
make the necessary adjustments to the code.
Could we set the set the length of the watchlist to 50 or something like
that per default, and not making it dependent of the length you choose
in the preferences for the RecentChanges? (I for example have set it to
150, because otherwise the "show changes since ..." is cut off too
early. On the English Wp I'd have to set it even higher.)
Jimbo, we really need some news on this front. If
parts and/or a whole
machine really *is* on order and can be set up in the near future, we
need to know that. If it's *not*, then it may be time to pass around the
plate and have interested parties make sure one does get ordered, as had
begun to be discussed prior to the March 19 announcement.
Even with a second server, and the software and database being faster,
how long will it take until this again isn't enough because articles,
editors and visitors should be growing exponentially in theory. There
will be the foundation, and maybe we'll get some money through it and
can buy new hardware, but will it be sufficient? And for how long? And
aren't there other important things we could spend the money on, if an
other free project or a university would host us for free? But maybe I
cherish an illusion here.
Kurt