On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Robert Ullmann
<rlullmann(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We aren't going to get enwiki dumps more
often than 6 weeks. (Unless/until
whatever rearrangement Brion is planning.) But at the same time, there is
no
reason whatever that smaller projects can't get dumps every week
consistently; they just need a thread that only serves them. Just like that
"deposits only in 500's and '1000's bills" teller at the bank.
Right now there are 2 threads, right? Adding 2 more threads might make that
6 weeks turn into 13 weeks, or even worse if the process is I/O bound.
The bank teller analogy is a good one, but I'm not sure how many tellers we
have.
If you want to add two more threads you would need to add more servers
to run them. I can't see why they would be I/O bound, they aren't
writing anything to the database so can just use slave database
servers of which there are plenty.