On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/01/13 22:09, Asher Feldman wrote: > > That message actually means that memcached is working. The messages > > keys used as locks are added via the memcached add call, which only > > returns successfully if the key doesn't already exist. That could not > > acquire lock message means that the key already exists, the "lock" is > > already held and the work associated with it being done by another > process. > > There is another option: memcached is down and the lock cannot be > created, but nobody holds it, either. > That certainly could be the case, but mediawiki should also log memcached connection failures if so.
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