The Cunctator wrote: Basically where an admin does something which means that everything else gets put on hold until the "something" is completed. For example, deleting a page with a large history (such as when Ed Poor deleted AFD). Chris -- Chris Jenkinson chris(a)starglade.org "Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

"Chris Jenkinson" <chris(a)starglade.org> wrote in message news:43E50127.4090702@starglade.org... IIRC this also happened when SnowSpinner "deprecated" {{if}} by replacing the functional (but horrible, don't get the idea I fail to agree with that :-) code with a notice saying that this template had been deprecated and should be replaced. I recall reports that it took about 15 minutes to recover, but I can't remember whether this was for the DB lock, or for all uses to be replaced. I do know it was surprisingly fast, even for those of us who had been expressing scepticism that any one template could hold the DB to ransom :-) -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]