On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)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?