On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, webmaster wrote:
Once again today, someone is complaining about page
load time on the
pump. I am beginning to suspect that this is a bandwidth problem.
It is sooooooooo not bandwidth.
Typical usage is 50-80 k/s each on larousse and pliny. (Usage is a touch
lower on larousse, which serves the English wikipedia, because it's set up
to compress cachable pages that are sent to non-logged-in users for about
25% total savings; and also pliny carries the big database backup
downloads.)
I've gotten ca 1000 k/sec downloads of backup dumps from uni here, even
when the wiki was hella slow.
If you'll look at:
http://www.wikipedia.org/stats/usage_200307.html
you'll see that peak usage does not exceed average by that much.
What has been done to investigate the reason behind
this problem, and
what were the results of said tests? I haven't really heard a
straight answer from anyone saying what the problem is, just
speculation.
When I stare at mysql's process list to see the slowpokes, who comes up
on top?
Search, search, search.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)