On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Wow, I'm glad to hear that the reporter might be featuring Wikipedia. Great!
The fact that this is a cgi script, rather than a fastcgi script, is a bottleneck, but conversion from cgi to fastcgi is (nearly) trivial, and I've got that ready to go.
Very cool!
Also, the server running wikipedia has 512 meg of memory now, but we can quickly upgrade that to 2 gig if necessary. (And memory is frighteningly cheap these days.) Additional memory will be automatically used by the filesystem to cache frequently accessed files, etc., etc.
It's all good. My only concern is the edit locks.
OK. Well, is there any way to take care of that problem by rewriting the software? What the hell IS an edit lock, anyway?
Showing my technical ignorance again, Larry