Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Part of the problem is that the measure of job queue
length we really
care about is "what was the last job executed?", not "how many jobs
are in the queue?". If we added a job_timestamp column and put an
index on it, we could replace (or supplement) the cruddy poor-quality
estimate we have now with a probably more useful and certainly more
accurate one.
Agree. Adding job queue lag to Special:Statistics would benefit both
users and sysadmins.