On 01/13/2014 12:19 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
On 13/01/14 15:35, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
What you're discussing is an unnamed user account that's implicitly created and lasts as long as the cookie does. Those are going to pile up *really* fast, especially from browsers that do not keep cookies for any reason.
Not as fast as revisions, and we seem to cope with those. On the English Wikipedia, there were only ~27k anonymous edits per day over the last month, so it would take 10 years to add 100M rows at that rate, and the revision table has ~550M rows and we still haven't bothered to shard it.
We shouldn't assume linear growth over a ten year period. Nonetheless, the technical scalability problems are probably solvable.
Matt Flaschen