Just 20 minutes ago there was a dramatic slowdown in the Wikipedia. Now I can't access the pages at all. Is Lir doing something nasty in the way of big queries? Is there a regularly scheduled cron job doing this? My attempts to access various pages on the 'pedia are just timing out.
Jonathan
Jonathan Walther wrote:
Just 20 minutes ago there was a dramatic slowdown in the Wikipedia. Now I can't access the pages at all. Is Lir doing something nasty in the way of big queries? Is there a regularly scheduled cron job doing this? My attempts to access various pages on the 'pedia are just timing out.
The gratuitous and slanderous innuendo about Lir is a fine example sharklike behaviour. I see no evidence that she has the technical ability to do what you suggest. Perhaps you should apologize to her.
Eclecticology
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:21:02PM -0800, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Just 20 minutes ago there was a dramatic slowdown in the Wikipedia. Now I can't access the pages at all. Is Lir doing something nasty in the way of big queries? Is there a regularly scheduled cron job doing this? My attempts to access various pages on the 'pedia are just timing out.
The gratuitous and slanderous innuendo about Lir is a fine example sharklike behaviour. I see no evidence that she has the technical ability to do what you suggest. Perhaps you should apologize to her.
"She" turns out to be a young male, at least 18 years of age and probably in his 20's. Cunc can provide more details, I think. It changes my whole perception of "her".
At 18, I would have had no problem remembering people mentioning on the mailing list here "be careful about using the URL interface to doing raw SQL queries, because some queries can REALLY SLOW THE DATABASE DOWN". We have no idea about this young mans technical abilities, good or bad. We do know he was immature and unstable enough to threaten to commit suicide on a public mailing list. He also posted on my Eleutherphilic Creed article yesterday that the Wikipedia didn't provide any value over the same information being scattered all over the web... Sounds to me like he doesn't really care about the Wikipedia itself, and is getting a charge out of getting people here riled up.
Jonathan
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