Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Caching Problem with Mobile Main Page?

2013-05-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:19:13PM -0700, Asher Feldman wrote: 1) Our multicast purge stream is very busy and isn't split up by cache type, so it includes lots of purge requests for images on upload.wikimedia.org. Processing the purges is somewhat cpu intensive, and I saw doing so once per

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Caching Problem with Mobile Main Page?

2013-05-05 Thread Asher Feldman
Faidon - thanks for the more accurate trackdown, and fix! On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Faidon Liambotis wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 03:19:13PM -0700, Asher Feldman wrote: 1) Our multicast purge stream is very busy and isn't split up by cache type, so it includes lots of purge requests for

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Caching Problem with Mobile Main Page?

2013-05-03 Thread Arthur Richards
+wikitech-l I've confirmed the issue on my end; ?action=purge seems to have no effect and the 'last modified' notification on the mobile main page looks correct (though the content itself is out of date and not in sync with the 'last modified' notification). What's doubly weird to me is the 'Last

Re: [Wikitech-l] [WikimediaMobile] Caching Problem with Mobile Main Page?

2013-05-03 Thread Asher Feldman
The problem is due to recent changes that were made to how mobile caching works. I just flushed cache on all of the frontend varnish instances which indeed appears to have fixed the problem but it isn't actually fixed. Note, the frontend instances just have 1GB of cache, so only very popular