On Dec 11, 2003, at 22:18, Erik Moeller wrote:
Database server is down; it really, _really_ didn't like being asked how many rows are in the old revisions table for the English Wikipedia.
Who did that? And if it was a sysop query, why the hell are we still/again allowing those? That's like putting a big red "DoS me" sign on our server.
I ran it while testing, to confirm that it was, indeed, monstruously slow on the larger tables.
Well, it is.
However it shouldn't _crash_ the server; that shows (along with the two spontaneous MySQL crashes we've had earlier) that there's still a lot of work to be done on this new machine before we can declare it to be stable and happy.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)