On 5/22/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/05/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
The technical overhead could be extreme from something like this, but I'm not sure.
It is, unfortunately. And once you get into the caching required to deal with MediaWiki's hugely bloated arse, the numbers become meaningless.
From memory, it got to the point where the servers keeping the logs
were filling their buffers faster than the hard disks could write the logs down, and so page view logging was switched off.