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)