On 02/08/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
No, it changes depending on which database server was used to make the *ESTIMATE* of the job queue length. Which is why we shouldn't be showing an estimate of job queue length anyway, since it's often HUGELY wrong and it freaks people out. :)
I've long advocated removing this from the Special:Statistics page; it's not information which has relevance to the site, and users seem to use it as a metric for all sorts of things, when it's not.
Rob Church