Tech gurus,
When I emails telling me that the wikipedia is stuck, I go and restart apache thusly:
/apache/bin/apachectl restart
This always seems to solve the problem.
As a temporarily and admittedly horrible crutch, would it be incredibly bad of me to make a cron job to do that once per hour overnight?
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From: Anthere anthere5@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 22:22:02 -0800 (PST) To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] lags
I did not have to time to go through all the mails, so I don't know if so raised the subject, but in spite of the changes yesterday the lags on the fr.wiki are horrible. Yesterday evening, it took between 5 to 20 mn to edit a page. I just saved a couple of them then give up.
We had no contributions at all between 21h and 0h which are usually the busiest time of the day. I guess everybody just gave up.
This has been going on for several days now. The day before, we got the message connexion error very often for example.
People are getting very weary, and I am worried that the contributions will drop tremendously if this goes on for a long time. Most contributors are from Europe. Most can only contribute in the evening. If it doesnot go better, they will just stop. Meanwhile, the en.wiki was not accessible for us either. But, I noticed it was still working for some as people were contributing. It was impossible on the french wiki.
I know you do your best. I saw on the announcement, you made some change to improve the matter. Well, yesterday, it was worse than ever : -(((
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