At 2:32 AM -0800 3/23/06, Brion Vibber wrote:
Whenever we have a feature that allows going wild on all of them and allow people to use it, it bogs down the databases until we have to remove it. You need to take these into account *first*.
Is there (could there be) a machine that is used for stress testing of new features such as this? This might let them be tried out under real use, without endangering the performance of Wikipedia.
-r