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From: "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:22 AM
To: "Happy-melon" <happy-melon(a)live.com>om>; "Wikimedia Foundation
Mailing
List" <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions)
for English Wikipedia.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Happy-melon
<happy-melon(a)live.com> wrote:
[snip]
> It's not just that. On a technological level, considerable sections of
> the
> FlaggedRevs code are called on *every* page view, whether the page has
> FlaggedRevs behaviour or not. Even if it's eventually saying "no, carry
> on
> normally" in 99% of the cases, the question is still asked. And asked on
> every one of those six billion pageviews. When the answer is "yes, we
> need
> to do something special here", of course, the load that the FlaggedRevs
The overwhelming majority of those "six billion pageviews" never
touches mediawiki at all— they're satisfied out of the frontend
caches.
Yes, that is true, and I had neglected that point. The squid infrastructure
was implemented precisely to save the Apache servers from five of those six
billion. Or whatever the number is.
Completely hogwash.
Not sure I'd go that far. My point was that every time a page is rendered,
extension code adds load, whether or not the extension's behaviour is
apparent on that page. Are you saying that that, too, is pure hyperbole?
...and it's not like we're talking about some
extension which was only
ever designed for tiny wikis (as many extensions are), dewp and enwp
were always primary targets for this extension from inception.
Indeed. Your point?
--HM