Thanks Dan, sounds like a great plan for this specific situation.

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:27 PM, dan-nl <[email protected]>wrote:

> first, i suggest that we put off all large image uploads, > 10mb ( unless
> we have a concrete value that would work ), until we resolve the thumbnail
> issue.
>
> during the zürich hackathon i spoke with aaron schultz, faiden liambotis,
> and brion vibber regarding approaches to dealing with this issue. in
> summary, the idea aaron came up with is to create initial thumbnails on
> download of the original mediafile to the wiki. this should block the
> appearance of the title on the new files page and anywhere else until the
> thumbnails and title creation/edit have completed. aaron thought, and
> faidon and i agree, that further throttling of gwtoolset will not help
> resolve the issue.
>
> i am currently looking into implementing this approach.
>
> with kind regards,
> dan
>
> On May 12, 2014, at 11:58 , Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > From the Ops & Multimedia mailing lists:
> >
> > We just had a brief imagescaler outage today at approx. 11:20 UTC that
> > was investigated and NYPL maps were found to be the cause of the outage.
> >
> > As Gergo's unanswered recent message in this thread suggested, we're
> actively working on a number of changes to stabilize GWToolset and improve
> image scaler performance in order to avoid such outages. I assumed that
> since everyone involved is participating in this thread, that you were
> waiting for these changes to happen before restarting the GWToolset job
> that caused the previous outage a couple of weeks ago, or that you would
> warn us when that job would be run again. There seems to be a communication
> issue here. By running this job, you've taken down thumbnail generation on
> Commons (and all WMF wikis) and we were lucky that someone from Ops was
> around, noticed it and reacted quickly. This could have been easily avoided
> with better coordination, by at least scheduling a time to run your next
> attempt, with people from Ops watching servers at the time the job is run.
> Please make sure that this happens for the next batch of NYPL maps/massive
> files that you plan to upload with GWToolset. All it takes is scheduling a
> day and time for the next upload attempt.
> >
> > Gergo and I will keep replying to this thread to notify everyone when
> our related code changes are merged.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Gergo Tisza <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Uhh... let's give this another shot in the morning.
> >
> > I went through last day's upload logs; on average there are ~600 uploads
> an hour, the peak was 1900, the negative peak around 240. (The numbers are
> at http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=wmBRJm1G in case anybody finds them
> useful.) So that's around 4 files per minute in worst case.
> >
> > If we are aiming for no more than 10% of Special:NewFiles to be taken up
> by GWToolset, that means 5 uploads per run of the control job (10% of the
> 50 slots at Special:NewFiles) - the upload jobs can't really be throttled,
> so we must make sure they come in small enough chunks, no matter how much
> delay there is between the chunks). Also, we want to keep below 10% of the
> total Commons upload rate - that means 24 images per hour, which is roughly
> five runs of the control job per hour.
> >
> > So the correct config is
> >
> > GWToolset\Config::$mediafile_job_throttle_default = 5;
> > $wgJobBackoffThrottling['gwtoolsetUploadMetadataJob'] = 5 / 3600;
> >
> > I'm leaving the max throttle at 20 so that people who are uploading
> small, non-TIFF images can get a somewhat higher speed.
> >
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