Karl Eichwalder ke@gnu.franken.de writes:

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Are there any statistics publically available? Which SQL statements are issued when?

Broundground for my question is: at certain times de.wikipedia is terribly overloaded (or unresponsive) and I'd like to know the reason why.

Today the same again. Is the the time when google fetches the whole thing? I cannot access the German WP for more than 13' - accessing the English version works, more or less instantly.

You can find statistics on http://de.wikipedia.org/stats for the german wiki and http://www.wikipedia.org/stats for english wiki.

Wikipedia is slow, because the two servers we're using are very overloaded. We should soon get a new dual-opteron which will become the db server.