I confirmed this on IRC, but just feeding the archives here.  I'm also
convinced that the client IP hashing bug we just found explains this
problem.  It's good we took a look at the other problems, but the main one
seems the IP hashing.  We'll brain bounce more tomorrow on how to fix that.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Update; I read Dan's thread about hashing, read this thread, and a
> penny dropped ;).
>
> This is totally explainable by the fact that we /expect/ to see
> multiple pageIDs per IP. And we are! The hashing problem just means
> those aren't /appearing/ to be the same IP.
>
> On 15 September 2015 at 18:05, Erik Bernhardson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We've deployed the change to bucketing, but we are still seeing the same
> > issue in the collected data.
> >
> > Again we are generating a unique 64 bit random number when the user gets
> to
> > the page. We are seeing this same 64 bit unique number being reported by
> > multiple ip addresses.
> >
> > Since deploying the new schema number with the updated bucket selection
> we
> > have seen 13 distinct tokens coming from 42 distinct ip addresses. This
> > shouldn't be possible.
> >
> > mysql:[email protected] [log]> select count(distinct
> > clientIp) from CompletionSugges
> > tions_13630018;
> > +--------------------------+
> > | count(distinct clientIp) |
> > +--------------------------+
> > |                       42 |
> > +--------------------------+
> > 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> >
> > mysql:[email protected] [log]> select count(distinct
> > event_pageViewToken) from CompletionSuggestions_13630018;
> >
> > +-------------------------------------+
> > | count(distinct event_pageViewToken) |
> > +-------------------------------------+
> > |                                  13 |
> > +-------------------------------------+
> > 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> >
> >
> >
> > My best guess at this point is that something has changed in the way
> these
> > clientIp's are collected and is incorrect.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Erik Bernhardson
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for taking a look over this. I've incorperated your suggestions
> >> into a patch[1] and if all looks good will send that out in SWAT. We
> should
> >> be able to look at the data collected overnight and see if things are
> more
> >> sane tomorrow.
> >>
> >> [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/238306/
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> You are queueing a logging callback every time a request is sent (which
> >>> is roughly every time the user types another character in the search
> box)
> >>> until the tracking module finishes loading and
> mw.searchSuggest.request is
> >>> restored. On a slow connection the user might type several characters
> and
> >>> trigger several log events by then. If you filter for queries from the
> same
> >>> non-unique IP, you will probably see something like "a", "ab", "abc"...
> >>>
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