Pierre Abbat wrote:

I get timeouts on both en and fr, and have gotten connection refused, for the past half hour or so.

I've spent the last hour or so getting it more or less back online. I'm running *extremely* late for class, so if it breaks again in the next few hours, somebody else is gonna have to fix it.

I've disabled updating of the view count and site stats (two database writes on every page view!) for the time being, in the hopes that this will slightly improve performance. Since the db still descends into uselessness after a couple minutes, I put the whole English wikipedia temporarily into read-only mode.

It will automatically pop out after a couple hours when traffic should be lower, or sooner if another developer wants to mess with it.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)