2009/2/16 Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com:
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Alternatively, the number of jobs processed per request could be made a function of the length of the backlog (in terms of time) - the longer the backlog is, the faster we process jobs. Then if the job queue get to being months behind we would all notice it because everything would start running really slowly.
Jobs are not processed on requests. They're processed by a cron job.
According to the documentation, by default they are run on requests, does Wikimedia not use that default?