[Labs-l] wikidata-dev-3 instance causing 80M/s of disks writes

[Ryan Lane]

There's a weird sed statement that runs every hour on wikidata-dev-3:

sed -i s/C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\wikidata
-client/Wikidata/g
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_language
s_LanguageLtTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_i
ncludes_db_DatabaseSQLTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests
_phpunit_includes_normal.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpun
it_includes_SampleTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_php
unit_includes_MWFunctionTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tes
ts_phpunit_includes_api.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpuni
t_includes_GlobalFunctions_wfUrlencodeTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverag
e/20120925/tests_phpunit_languages_utils.dashboard.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcov
erage/20120925/includes_filebackend_FileBackendStore.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/
phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_includes_CssContentTest.php.html
/var/www/testcov
erage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_includes_db_ORMRowTest.php.html
/var/www/te
stcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_includes_search_SearchEngineTest.php.h
tml
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_Diff_includes_DiffOpAdd.ph
p.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_includes_api_ApiQuer
yTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_api_ApiQueryAllCa
tegories.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_logging_LogEnt
ry.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_Wikibase_lib_tests
_phpunit.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_maintenance_M
aintenanceTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_inc
ludes_normal_CleanUpTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_Wikibase_repo_includes_EntityView.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_api_ApiQueryQueryPage.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_DataValues_DataValues_tests.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_includes_GlobalFunctions_wfGetCallerTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_Wikibase_repo_tests_phpunit.dashboard.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_includes_CdbTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_languages_LanguagePlTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_DataValues_ValueParser_tests_valueparser_ValueParserTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_DataValues_DataTypes_DataTypes.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_filebackend.dashboard.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_api_ApiQueryFilearchive.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_includes.dashboard.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_specials_SpecialUnwatchedpages.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/languages_utils.dashboard.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_Diff_includes_DiffOp.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_includes_cache.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_Wikibase_repo_includes_actions_EditItemAction.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_specials_SpecialUncategorizedimages.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_api_ApiQueryDeletedrevs.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_debug_Debug.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_resourceloader.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_Wikibase_lib_includes_changes_EntityRefresh.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/tests_phpunit_languages_LanguageGaTest.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_Article.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/extensions_Wikibase_repo_includes_api.dashboard.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/20120925/includes_installer_Installer.php.html
/var/www/testcoverage/phpcoverage/2

This causes performance issues for other virtual machines in the same host.
Can the wikidata folks please handle this some less disk intensive way?

- Ryan
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