Yes, that is strange. I've been measuring response times for about a week, and I believe it has become progressively worse. Perhaps it differs between the wikis? My measurements are available on the adress below. As you can see, response times of 20-30 seconds are fairly common during the hours people tend to be online.
That is bad enough for a regular web site, but catastrophic for a wiki. The rate of new articles has dwindled and thereby broken a previously strong upwards trend.
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%E4ndare:E23/responstider
Jake Nelson wrote:
Funny, I've been noticing how much faster and more reliable it's been the last few days. (Roughly when mod_throttle was turned on.)
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On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 11:26, E23 wrote:
That is bad enough for a regular web site, but catastrophic for a wiki. The rate of new articles has dwindled and thereby broken a previously strong upwards trend.
The sad truth is that we *know* the Wikipedia's too slow. It's been too slow for most of its existence, yet it's still growing -- of course, that's why it's always slow! ;)
There have been occasional /extra/ slow spots that have slowed the growth curve temporarily, and have been generally solved through hardware upgrades. Unfortunately that takes money, so we can't do it as readily as installing a program or tweaking a configuration file.
A minor upgrade to the database server and a complete overhaul of the web server should be coming in a few days; once that's done we can finish moving all the web work off the database server, and then we can think about adding more web servers to split the load.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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