On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 05:41:15PM +0000, Neil Harris wrote:
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Thus, we might regard Wikipedia as being roughly 24 to 48 times more "efficient" in its use of hardware than Google.
No, we can't. It would be so for a linear system. Which is not the case.
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So, a reasonable answer to critics seems to be:
- the developers are already doing very well indeed coping with the
combination of extremely high demand and very limited resources
True.
- they already know there are big growth and capacity problems, and are
working hard on scalability and reliability
True.
- send money, rather than complaining
Always.
P.S. Would it be possible to restart wprc10 (recent changes bot for #ru.wikipedia)? It is down for quite some time now.