The English Wikipedia slowed down again today.
From 15:28 to 16:13 (US Eastern Standard Time) only 10
edits got through.
Until we figure out what's causing the slowdown, what kind of First Aid measures can
we apply?
Would restarting any of the servers periodically help?
Suppose it takes X minutes to restart a server, and that the "lag" problem puts
Wikipedia out of operation for Y minutes -- where X << Y. Maybe then this would be a
good "band-aid" for the problem.
Ed Poor