Just a situation I find myself in. I recently started trying to improve the speed of performance of my mediawiki site. To do so I installed varnish, and set up memcached to run on that server. debian Linux 8 with php7 from backports. Now I got all of the update done and checked to see that the server was running OK: the last step was to rebuild the caching files using the command php rebuildFileCache.php. I've used this before with no complications however this time it filled up my entire diskdrive 923GB and I'm not sure what to do the clean up my mess. The entire system will boot up but the drive is so bloated that I cant even log in in the xterminal desktop. I do have full access as root on the regular terminal. I would really appreciate any tips to handle this. Thanks
If you're using rebuildFileCache.php, you probably have $wgFileCacheDirectory set to specify the location of the cache files. Log in as root and clean out that directory, and that should clear up the immediate problem so you can get back in.
Unfortunately, I don't use varnish so I have no idea what you need to do next. It seems odd that the file cache would fill up like that. Just how many articles are in your wiki?
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:29 PM, John Foster jfoster81747@gmail.com wrote:
Just a situation I find myself in. I recently started trying to improve the speed of performance of my mediawiki site. To do so I installed varnish, and set up memcached to run on that server. debian Linux 8 with php7 from backports. Now I got all of the update done and checked to see that the server was running OK: the last step was to rebuild the caching files using the command php rebuildFileCache.php. I've used this before with no complications however this time it filled up my entire diskdrive 923GB and I'm not sure what to do the clean up my mess. The entire system will boot up but the drive is so bloated that I cant even log in in the xterminal desktop. I do have full access as root on the regular terminal. I would really appreciate any tips to handle this. Thanks
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Thanks Jeff. I'll give that a try. The size of the database is intermediate, I think. I'v got about 30,000 articles with a crap load of mathematics embedded in them. As I said this is my first issue that I've not been able to get resolved quickly.
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Jeff Darlington jeff.darlington@gmail.com wrote:
If you're using rebuildFileCache.php, you probably have $wgFileCacheDirectory set to specify the location of the cache files. Log in as root and clean out that directory, and that should clear up the immediate problem so you can get back in.
Unfortunately, I don't use varnish so I have no idea what you need to do next. It seems odd that the file cache would fill up like that. Just how many articles are in your wiki?
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:29 PM, John Foster jfoster81747@gmail.com wrote:
Just a situation I find myself in. I recently started trying to improve
the
speed of performance of my mediawiki site. To do so I installed varnish, and set up memcached to run on that server. debian Linux 8 with php7
from
backports. Now I got all of the update done and checked to see that the server was running OK: the last step was to rebuild the caching files
using
the command php rebuildFileCache.php. I've used this before with no complications however this time it filled up my entire diskdrive 923GB
and
I'm not sure what to do the clean up my mess. The entire system will boot up but the drive is so bloated that I cant even log in in the xterminal desktop. I do have full access as root on the regular terminal. I would really appreciate any tips to handle this. Thanks
-- John Foster
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Hi,
the question would be: Why do you want to use the rebuildFileCache.php maintenance script? What is the goal you want to achieve? Varnish does (from what I remember when I last setup varnish for MediaWiki) not need the file cache, which is built in MediaWiki, and all these files and caching capabilities would be doubled, as they're already delivered with varnish. Have you followed the (maybe already very outdated) documentation on mediawiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching ?
A bit more details of your configuration would probably help, too :)
Best, Florian
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Thanks Jeff. I'll give that a try. The size of the database is intermediate, I think. I'v got about 30,000 articles with a crap load of mathematics embedded in them. As I said this is my first issue that I've not been able to get resolved quickly.
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Jeff Darlington jeff.darlington@gmail.com wrote:
If you're using rebuildFileCache.php, you probably have $wgFileCacheDirectory set to specify the location of the cache files. Log in as root and clean out that directory, and that should clear up the immediate problem so you can get back in.
Unfortunately, I don't use varnish so I have no idea what you need to do next. It seems odd that the file cache would fill up like that. Just how many articles are in your wiki?
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:29 PM, John Foster jfoster81747@gmail.com wrote:
Just a situation I find myself in. I recently started trying to improve
the
speed of performance of my mediawiki site. To do so I installed varnish, and set up memcached to run on that server. debian Linux 8 with php7
from
backports. Now I got all of the update done and checked to see that the server was running OK: the last step was to rebuild the caching files
using
the command php rebuildFileCache.php. I've used this before with no complications however this time it filled up my entire diskdrive 923GB
and
I'm not sure what to do the clean up my mess. The entire system will boot up but the drive is so bloated that I cant even log in in the xterminal desktop. I do have full access as root on the regular terminal. I would really appreciate any tips to handle this. Thanks
-- John Foster
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This is more a generic sysadmin question.
First step is figure out where all your diskspace has gone - run the command:
du | sort
to find out (The command will list space usage in all the subdirectories of the current directory). Delete files as necessary. Obviously be careful you don't delete anything important.
As Florian said, using file cache and varnish at the same time makes no sense. varnish does the same thing as file cache, but much better. Having both enabled will just make things slower. You should only have varnish enabled.
-- Brian
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 2:29 AM, John Foster jfoster81747@gmail.com wrote:
Just a situation I find myself in. I recently started trying to improve the speed of performance of my mediawiki site. To do so I installed varnish, and set up memcached to run on that server. debian Linux 8 with php7 from backports. Now I got all of the update done and checked to see that the server was running OK: the last step was to rebuild the caching files using the command php rebuildFileCache.php. I've used this before with no complications however this time it filled up my entire diskdrive 923GB and I'm not sure what to do the clean up my mess. The entire system will boot up but the drive is so bloated that I cant even log in in the xterminal desktop. I do have full access as root on the regular terminal. I would really appreciate any tips to handle this. Thanks
-- John Foster
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