Hi Chris, What normally happens is that we have a cron job that runs the script "runJobs.php" on each wiki once per day. Each wiki's "runJob.php" runs seperately from other wikis. This updates special pages, etc., and usually runs without problem. What happened this time is that on a few wikis, the process running "runJobs.php" was running out of memory ... this wasn't very obvious to us as the wikis in question aren't the largest nor had particularly large "job" queues. Uncyclopedia and star wars usually have the largest when this doesn't get run daily. So we believe there was a particular update being run as one of the "jobs" that was causing trouble ... I don't have the specifics on which one... but we recognized what was preventing the script from finishing and increased the memory allocated to those processes.
Thanks, John Q. Chris Stafford wrote: > any chance we can get some insight on what was making it hang? was it > stuck in a loop? anything we can help do or not do to prevent it? > > On 9/17/07, *John Q* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > I see that the engineers appear to have found the issue and are > re-running this. When I checked the eq2 job queue just now it was 48k > ... I'll check this again in 24 hours to see if the script has further > reduced that number. > > Thanks, > John Q. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikia-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
