--------- Original message -------- From: Timwi timwi@gmx.net To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] CVS Date: 07-02-03 10:28
That would be me. my webmail is stupid and didnt send it to the list, my bad. plus i forgot to configure it to show who I am. But yes, i follow lj-dev, and fb quite closely and Im constantly impressed by the things you guys pull off. like memcache, which had me droooling. I just figured since you help run (probably) one of the biggest mysql/apache clusters/websites in the internet, with some of the biggest traffic and DB loads you would have a couple of things to say on the subject. nice to see you here
-Lightning Will
Somebody sent me an anonymous (no name, no from address) e-mail in
response to a mail I sent to this list. Since I don't know who the sender is, I guess I'll have to reply through the list. Please let me know if this is not the correct way of doing it.
I'd be very grateful if the sender of the mail showed themselves.
> are you timwi from LJ by any chance?
Yes.
> cause if you are, im thinking you might have some ideas to try to > reduce load to our servers and optimize this whole sheebang.
Why does it take a Timwi from LJ to do database optimisations? :-)
Anyway - yeah, I was going to have some looks at it later on. I'm waiting for my first patch to go through first though -- I wouldn't like to spend time on it if it's not going to be used anyway.
I noticed that pages with a lot of links (like the "List of XYZ topics" pages) take a long time to edit. I'm imagining it updates some table for all those links even if just one of the links was changed, or something. Is that the case? Perhaps if someone could point me at a particular file and line where this is happening? Thanks in advance! :)
Greetings, Timwi
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Hi,
02.07.2003 14:01:47, Lightning <> wrote:
But yes, i follow lj-dev, and fb quite closely and Im constantly impressed by the things you guys pull off. like memcache, which had me droooling. I just figured since you help run (probably) one of the biggest mysql/apache clusters/websites in the internet, with some of the biggest traffic and DB loads you would have a couple of things to say on the subject.
Hm. You say you are following lj_dev, but you seem to be missing something. First, I am not running any servers, let alone LiveJournal ones, apart from my little development installation which I use only for testing. Hopefully, I'll have a Wikipedia one soon too. Secondly, both MemCacheD and FotoBilder (and S2 as well) were programmed almost entirely by Bradfitz and Avva; I and other volunteers were not invited to participate in the development of it.
Nevertheless, I have learnt quite a bit about database optimisation from LJ, and I suppose I could take a look at Wikipedia code.
P.S.: If this is off-topic, please let me know and I'll stop.
Greetings, Timwi
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