Nick Jenkins wrote:
It might be better to think of Jeff's servers as the gasping canary, WMF servers as the miner, and slow render time as the toxic gas, the Internet as the mine, the people who will make useful contributions as the gold, the trolls as trolls, and ... actually I think I'm overextending the metaphor, so I'll stop there!
I agree there are limits to even what the WMF hardware can do; I just don't necessarily see that we've reached them, when we don't know anything about his servers or configuration and the issue is not causing problems on en.wp, which is likely to hit such problems first as the largest WMF wiki.
There *are* template-related problems on en.wp at the moment, discussed in the thread from http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-October/034323.html, but I'm still not sure that's an indication that additional limits are needed - but it might be.
--Darkwind