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Replication lag on enwiki's toolserver database mirror
How long until it clears?
Days [ 0 ] ** [0.00%]
Weeks [ 2 ] ** [28.57%]
Months [ 4 ] ** [57.14%]
Years [ 1 ] ** [14.29%]
Is adding a hash for revision text worth this?
No [ 6 ] ** [85.71%]
Yes [ 1 ] ** [14.29%]
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post Tue 10th April 2012, 9:59pm
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post Mon 14th May 2012, 6:53pm
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post Mon 14th May 2012, 7:42pm
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Looks like they're adding a field to the en.wiki db; every entry in there has to be touched, and it is taking longer than initially anticipated.

If I followed the breadcrumbs correctly, it may have to do with this;

https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?...revision=109565

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post Sun 20th May 2012, 5:38am
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Looks like they're adding a field to the en.wiki db; every entry in there has to be touched, and it is taking longer than initially anticipated.


Yes, the new field is a hash value for every revision of every page, which will help check whether a series of edits actually made any change. I don't see any evidence that such a check could ever happen often enough that an ordinary string comparison of the page text is insufficiently fast.

In the mean time a whole lot of toolserver scripts, queries, and bots are broken or buggy, including some that are very important for behind the scenes maintenance.
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jsalsman   Replication lag on toolserver enwiki mirror   Tue 10th April 2012, 9:59pm
jsalsman   So much for weeks.   Fri 11th May 2012, 7:19pm
Retrospect   So much for weeks. If the developers would just ...   Mon 14th May 2012, 12:00pm
Emperor   Would anyone care to dumb this down a bit?   Mon 14th May 2012, 6:53pm

 

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