On 02/08/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)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