I've been trying to access Wikipedia for hours now -- to no avail. Immediately before that, simply saving an edit took more than a minute. My knowledge in this field is extremely limited, but I've come to really hate those periodical breakdowns. What is more, I guess newbies will be appalled if they happen to be editing an article during such a time.
My three questions:
(1) Are these shutdowns a worldwide phenomenon, or is it just me (in good old Europe) having difficulty?
(2) Are they planned (some sysop/developer/whoever making some important changes etc.) or do they happen accidentally?
(3) If they are planned, could the community of users be given notice when and approximately for how long Wikipedia will be down?
Kurt Forstner aka KF
(1) Are these shutdowns a worldwide phenomenon, or is it just me (in good old Europe) having difficulty?
Worldwide. Sucks big time.
(2) Are they planned (some sysop/developer/whoever making some important changes etc.) or do they happen accidentally?
Both. We've had some major database updates recently, but we also have occasional problems. A total crash without apparent reason, and this time MySQL max_connections problems, even though we're already at 250 and use pconnect (persistent connections).
(3) If they are planned, could the community of users be given notice when and approximately for how long Wikipedia will be down?
When there's scheduled downtime, it is usually announced on the mailing list. Let us know if you find someone willing to run a complete read-only mirror, that would help.
Regards,
Erik
Erik Moeller wrote:
When there's scheduled downtime, it is usually announced on the mailing list. Let us know if you find someone willing to run a complete read-only mirror, that would help.
I volunteer. What do we need to do?
Heh :-) If it's in your network, you probably just need to copy the source files and the tables from /var/lib/mysql (or wherever your MySQL databases reside) in a nightly cronjob to some other machine that's set up the same way as our current one. Since I don't have access to the Wikipedia server, you need to ask Brion for details regarding the cvs update scripts and so on, but it should all be fairly straightforward. The only difference would be that the database is locked on the read-only serevr.
Everyone else can run a mirror by simply importing the database dumps on a regular basis, though.
Regards,
Erik
How much bandwith use winkipedia ? I haaaave the server but probably not the bandwith.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Moeller" erik_moeller@gmx.de To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Accessing Wikipedia
Erik Moeller wrote:
When there's scheduled downtime, it is usually announced on the mailing list. Let us know if you find someone willing to run a complete read-only mirror, that would help.
I volunteer. What do we need to do?
Heh :-) If it's in your network, you probably just need to copy the source files and the tables from /var/lib/mysql (or wherever your MySQL databases reside) in a nightly cronjob to some other machine that's set up the same way as our current one. Since I don't have access to the Wikipedia server, you need to ask Brion for details regarding the cvs update scripts and so on, but it should all be fairly straightforward. The only difference would be that the database is locked on the read-only serevr.
Everyone else can run a mirror by simply importing the database dumps on a regular basis, though.
Regards,
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