On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Andre Engels wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Tim Starling wrote:
logged-in users, that way most edits go to a web server which is close to the master DB.
Would it not be better to keep the mirrors read-only, and have them redirect to the master for write-access? To have writing in several places causes significant overhead in avoiding edit conflicts and such.
There is a lot of hypothesis and discussion here. Have you considered that there are some 40-60 page views for every single edit? What about using some real statistics instead of guessing? (Just my hypothesis.)
And what does that have to do with my point? Are you saying that the overhead does not matter because it will only occur in a small percentage of cases? Then I will answer that redirecting people elsewhere for editing does not matter either, because it is just as small a percentage of cases.
I have no idea what 'real statistics' could either strengthen or weaken the point I am making. There are no 'real statistics' about the amount of time it costs to make edits on all machines as opposed to doing all on one. There has been no Wikipedia implementation on either.
Andre Engels