Wikipedia was inaccessible from about 11:20 to 19:00 UTC this evening/morning/whatever it is where you are.
The problem seems to have been triggered by a runaway database query on the francophone wikipedia; unfortunately coming during our busiest time of day everything just ground to a halt.
I'll try to rig up some better protection from accidents of this sort in the future (automatic timeouts/kills for slow manual queries); in the meantime, sysops always be careful with your queries! Treat our server gentle, and she'll be good to you in return.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
--- Brion Vibber vibber@sal-sun062.usc.edu wrote:
Wikipedia was inaccessible from about 11:20 to 19:00 UTC this evening/morning/whatever it is where you are.
The problem seems to have been triggered by a runaway database query on the francophone wikipedia; unfortunately coming during our busiest time of day everything just ground to a halt.
I'll try to rig up some better protection from accidents of this sort in the future (automatic timeouts/kills for slow manual queries); in the meantime, sysops always be careful with your queries! Treat our server gentle, and she'll be good to you in return.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
The server is female ?
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--- Thomas Corell T.Corell@t-online.de wrote:
Anthere wrote:
The server is female ?
Of course, as you seen today you have to handle she very carefuly and tenderly like a wife.
Smurf
hummmm I like the idea
well, I am no lesbian, so I don't practice sql queries on her ;-)
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At 10:41 PM 3/26/03 +0100, Smurf wrote:
Anthere wrote:
The server is female ?
Of course, as you seen today you have to handle she very carefuly and tenderly like a wife.
Smurf
Husbands take just as much careful handling as wives--both are human and therefore fragile, after all.
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