Hello all,
today I discovered (thanks to the mailing-list) that a few users have run
several bot-instances in parallel on willow. I'm sure that these people did it
by mistake, but it is annoying nevertheless and it is easy to fix: Use SGE.
The problem is that I wrote several of eMails about "use SGE!" already and
somehow it did not work as good as it should (if you converted you stuff
already: thank you and you can stop to read here ;-)). I understand that we
all are busy with our lives and Wikipedia and that we all love to "do it
right…later", but as you know that resources of the toolserver are limited. So
I hereby declare the following new rule:
All bots have to run by SGE. A bot is every program or script that makes
changes at a Wikimedia project. It does not matter if the bot runs
periodically or continuous. The only exclusions are a.) interactive bots, b.)
bots that can't run by SGE yet and c.) if you start a bot by hand for testing
(no screen, no cron, no while).
The rule will become active at Sunday, 10. February 2013. Exception b is
almost NEVER the case, if it runs on a shell it is VERY likely that it can run
by SGE.
Some time ago I wrote a simple SGE-how-to at [1]. Maybe you all can take a
look and correct things and make things more clear. In very most cases the
using of SGE IS easy.
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/SGE_for_beginners
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Hello all,
for historical reasons s2 and s5 are together on one host (cassia). Because
cassia is quite overloaded, the sharing will end soon and I will move s2 away.
For this I need your help because s2 and s5 share also the user-databases and
there is not hint which user-database is needed where.
So if you use user-databases for joining with s2 (two!) please add the name of
the user-database to [1] until
Friday, 8. February 18:00 UTC.
It will take only a few minutes to add your user-databases there, so please do
it. If you do not your user-databases there your tools will break after the
split, but of course that can be fixed later.
Sincerely,
DaB.
[1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/User:Dab/s2-userdatabaes
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Hello all,
I successfully converted the commons-binary-dump from the WMF to the
traditional dump-format today. I will now re-import commons to everywhere we
have it already, and I will start with cassia (s2+s5)
Tomorrow, Friday, after 13:00 UTC.
During the re-import the commons-copy of cassia will be inaccessible. The
import will take some hours (depending on the load of the server) and to be
safe I say hereby that commons on cassia will be away for 24h.
Another thing: My personal eMail-Server will receive an hardware-update
starting Friday 17:00 UTC: So it could be hard to reach me by mail for a few
hours. In urgent cases, try to reach Nosy.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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Hello all,
good news: We got a s4 and a s7-dump from the WMF, I transfer them to the
toolserver at the moment. Because the integration of Wikidata in hu/hewiki
will start soon AFAIK, I will begin with s7. Because the dumps are in the new
binary-format the actual "import" will be quite fast, the downtime of s7
should not be too long (at few hours at maximum, but I can't promise
anything). So I hereby declare a read-only-time and a downtime of s7
Tomorrow, starting 16:00 UTC.
The handling of s4 will take more time, because I have to convert the dump in
the traditional format first. I will notice you when downtimes are needed.
Sincerely,
DaB.
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