David Gerard wrote:
2009/8/24 Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com:
Most require far too much execution time to be done over HTTP, you hit timeouts too easily.
Huh, that's annoying. Would a progress ticker be sufficient to keep the connection alive and the admin interested?
(I'm putting this forward as an inchoate feature request not quite up to Bugzilla yet :-) )
Actually SMW has something like this. It has a Special:SMWAdmin page used to set up and upgrade the DB tables, and refresh the data. I believe for the data refresh it splits it into chunks and puts it in the job queue.