If gwtoolset is overloading your server and you need it to stop right away (e.g. its an emergency) contact someone in #wikimedia-operations and explain the situation.

--bawolff
On May 29, 2015 7:48 AM, "charles andrès" <charles.andres@wikimedia.ch> wrote:
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> Dear all, 
> Since Tuesday I’ve started the upload of around 8000 pictures of amoeba, everything was going smoothly until yesterday afternoon.
>
> It seems that at a moment we have saturated our own server with too many parallel request and the GWToolset start facing "HTTP request timed out » , as you can see in the GWToolset log https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=gwtoolset it the same story since yesterday around 5PM.
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> I’ve asked our CIO, and he told me that indeed GWToolset is using the whole bandwidth of our server :-(
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> Now I don’t know what to do? is there a moment GWToolset will stop doing request to the WMCH server? should we restart our server? 
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>
> incidentally , the account used for setting the batch upload receive now several «  Error: 1205 Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (10.0.6.41) « 
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> Do you think it’s related, I saw that someone already mentionned this error while using GWToolset.
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> Thanks to all for your help.
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> Cheers
>
> Charles
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