On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Robert Ullmann rlullmann@gmail.com wrote:
We aren't going to get enwiki dumps more often than 6 weeks. (Unless/until whatever rearrangement Brion is planning.) But at the same time, there is no reason whatever that smaller projects can't get dumps every week consistently; they just need a thread that only serves them. Just like that "deposits only in 500's and '1000's bills" teller at the bank.
Right now there are 2 threads, right? Adding 2 more threads might make that 6 weeks turn into 13 weeks, or even worse if the process is I/O bound.
The bank teller analogy is a good one, but I'm not sure how many tellers we have.