On Sunday 30 June 2002 09:51, Jan.Hidders wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 08:42:47AM +0100, Neil Harris wrote:
I'm seeing the same problems -- Wikipedia is locked up most of the time, only responding occasionally at random, making it effectively unusable.
Indeed. I still have the impression that it has to do with unsuccesful searches, but I may be mistaken. Does anybody know when Wikipedia's code was updated from CVS for the last time? Or has anybody taken a good look at the log-files to see what it is that is causing Wikipedia to grind practically to a halt? Are we really sure that it is greedy spiders?
I suspect it is searches for users' contributions. These always take a long time and almost always time out, even when browsing was fast just before I do one. It makes no difference how many contributions the user has made. Perhaps an index is missing and needs to be made.
phma