Forwaded from wikipedia-l... this seems like a good example to me of
something that could be cached. If someone requests "User
Contributions" then if they've calculated it within the last 24 hours,
say, then they should be given the cached version and told that a new
one will be generated after midnight, or similar.
That is, unless people use their User Contributions for some realtime
work.
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From: Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
Date: 01 Feb 2003 17:19:30 -0800
To: wikipedia-l <wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Problem with "User Contributions"
On sab, 2003-02-01 at 14:33, Zoe wrote:
For several days now, when I've clicked on
"User Contributions" on my
user page, Wikipedia has churned for several minutes, and then
displayed the browser's "The page cannot be displayed". I can
sometimes Refresh and eventually it comes up, but today, that's been
completely unsuccessful.
That's cause you edit too much, Zoe. ;)
Seriously, though, yes. Certain operations that involve checking large
numbers of old page revisions are sometimes excruciatingly slow of late.
This is hitting:
* User contributions
* History of oft-edited pages with hundreds of revisions (Village pump,
mav's talk page, current events, talk:main page, vandalism alerts)
* Diff to last edit on the same. (This involves sorting to find the most
recent edit, and that seems to be holding us up.)
Until this is resolved, I'd like to ask that you _don't_ hit refresh
when one of these is churning away like mad, but rather just let it go.
The first query keeps running for a while, and it's just not going to go
anywhere until it's done (or I or Magnus or someone logs in and kills
the query), and a second request might just make it worse. :(
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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