On 10/01/11 22:13, Ariel T. Glenn wrote:
So "soon" took longer than I would have liked. However, we are up and running with the new code. I have started a few processes going and over the next few days I will ramp it up to the usual number. In particular I want to start a separate job for the larger wikis so that the smaller jobs don't get trapped behind them.
Guess I'd better go update the various pages on wikitech now.
Ariel
Thanks Ariel, that's good to hear.
Would it be possible to take this a step further, and for a single job to be started up just for enwiki?
enwiki is unique among all the dumps in that it is the only one that regularly fails more often than it succeeds; even partial dumps are better than none, and enwiki also takes longer than any other dump before it (typically) fails, so retrying it more aggressively than others -- and independently of them, so it does not hold the other wikis up -- would seem appropriate.
Thus, under this proposal, there would be three jobs running:
* enwiki * other large wikis * all small wikis
-- Neil