[Wikipedia-l] Is anybody else noticing the timeouts and lags?

[Brion VIBBER]

Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> The last few days, every so often the wikipedia slows to a crawl and
> won't load the page change properly. I've 'lost' a few edits that way
> because it's timed out. 

Saving verrryyyy llloonnnggg pages seems to precipitate this. I just 
cropped off the upload log ([[Wikipedia:Upload log]]) from several 
gazillion lines each with two links, and it took a few minutes to finish 
saving, blocking the database until it was done.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)