I found a server replication lag of 6000 seconds at the moment and I found the same for the last few days. This prevents bot from editing at all. Should we anyway enable editing for this long timout e.g. for one per minute or every 5 minutes or should bot edits always be blocked if the dbreplag is to high. An other idea would be not to prevent bot edits but just wait this time for the next edit.
Regards xqt
----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl An: Pywikipedia discussion list pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 13.02.2012 21:15 Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] problem
On 13 February 2012 21:05, majid magidred@yahoo.com wrote:
When editing a robot, is confronted with the following message, what is the problem?
Pausing 300 seconds due to database server lag
There is no problem. The bot is pausing for 300 seconds because of database server lag.
Wikipedia (for instance) uses multiple database servers: one is the 'main' server, the others are 'slaves'. The 'main' server is the one that receives writes (e.g. page edits), the 'slaves' get this information from the main server.
When there are a lot of edits, there can be some lag between these, which is called 'database server lag'. To prevent this lag from building up, the site signals bots to slow down. This is what you are seeing.
Best, Merlijn
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