Brion Vibber wrote:
I believe that refers to yesterday's replication lag on the machine running watchlist queries; the abstract dump process that was hitting that particular server was aborted yesterday.
Is Yahoo still using those? Looking at the last successful one for enwiki, it looks like it took a little more than a day to generate. Combined with all the other projects, that seems like an awful lot of processing time spent for something of questionable utility to anyone but Yahoo.