[Mediawiki-l] Job Queue Never Decreasing

[Tim Starling]

APseudoUtopia wrote:
> I'm running MW 1.15.1. I'm having a problem with the Job Queue. I
> noticed that on Special:Statistics, the job queue length is always
> 1,200. Ever since I started the wiki, it has been the same thing -
> 1,200 - the entire time. The wiki does have a light load, so I tried
> setting $wgJobRunRate to a higher number such as 5, then browsing the
> site a bit and monitoring the JobQueue length. Nothing changed.
> 
> How can I get more information on this? Such as, what jobs are
> actually in the queue? Why aren't they running?

This is most likely due to a known bug in Special:Statistics, which
causes it to give inaccurate numbers for the number of jobs remaining
in the queue. You can get an accurate count by running an SQL query,
say using phpMyAdmin:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM jobs;

-- Tim Starling