Hi,
don't know if this issue came up already - in case it did and has been
dismissed, I beg your pardon. In case it didn't...
I hereby propose, that pbzip2 (https://launchpad.net/pbzip2) is used
to compress the xml dumps instead of bzip2. Why? Because its sibling
(pbunzip2) has a bug bunzip2 hasn't. :-)
Strange? Read on.
A few hours ago, I filed a bug report for pbzip2 (see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pbzip2/+bug/922804) together with some test
results done even some few hours before that.
The results indicate that:
bzip2 and pbzip2 are vice-versa compatible each one can create
archives, the other one can read. But if it is for uncomressing, only
pbzip2 compressed archives are good for pbunzip2.
I propose compressing the archives with pbzip2 for the following
reasons:
1) If your archiving machines are SMP systems this could lead to a
better usage of system ressources (i.e. faster compression).
2) Compression with pbzip2 is harmless for regular users of bunzip2,
so everything should run for these people as usual.
3) pbzip2-compressed archives can be uncompressed with pbunzip2 with a
speedup that scales nearly linearly with the number of CPUs in the
host.
So to sum up: It's a no loose and two win situation if you migrate to
pbzip2. And that just because pbunzip2 is slightly buggy. Isn't that
interesting? :-)
cheers,
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Planning for the full redesign to kick off early 2016. When I say
"full redesign" I mean it, so let's not talk small stuff about whether
json or xml is a batter format; let's talk about a design that will
allow us to plug in various formats easily, for example.
Starting point for discussion here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114019
See the last link on the description.
What we can start on now: are these the right components to break the
dumps into? Can we indeed cover all sorts of dumps this way? What
existing software can we re-use? WHat sort of grid computing or other
package can we use for the "black box" in the diagram? Etc. etc. We
want to get as much of this hashed out ahead of time so that we can get
the maximum out of the session.
Ariel
Dumps are still not available on labs after two weeks. No one has said
anything on why they are down or if they will be fixed.
Dumps are still not being run twice a month.
Bryan
Hi,
Although the English language dump for October has completed successfully there are problems with some other languages - the Spanish, German and Russian dumps dated 20151002 failed at: "Articles, templates, media/file descriptions, and primary meta-pages".
Could someone could look into this?
Thanks,
Chris
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Chris Newell
Lead Technologist
Internet Research & Future Services
BBC Research & Development