To be honest,

We don't need these daily. They simply don't provide enough granularity to
be useful on a daily basis.
Even weekly might be overkill.

Slow the crons down and save Wikia some CPU cycles. I rather see those
cycles up front on a Squid! ;)

If you still really want these stats that much, I suggest setting up a new
slave with a low synch speed.
(Obviously it won't matter if this slave is a few minutes/hours behind)
Slow the cron down to a weekly or bi-weekly run, instead of daily.

Heck.. (en) Wikipedia hasn't been able to successfully complete a stats-run
in months!
Anyone who uses these stats for anything half-way important... should
probably reconsider.


My 3 cents,
(2 cents Canadian. hahaha!)

-- 
Jamie Hari
Editor-in-Chief
Marvel & DC Database Projects



On 12/2/07, JohnQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Robin... thanks for letting me know. Looking into it.
>
> As background, processing stats on a daily basis takes a fair amount of
> computing power...  first, we dump the full db every day (which we'll
> continue to do for backup purposes)... then we run a MediaWiki program
> that calcs the stats. This whole process has been taking over 24 hours
> to complete... at which point our cron job to calc the stats starts up
> again. We're looking at ways to alternate processes and locations...
> which would be a short-term solution... but we're hoping to release a
> new way of calc'ing the stats that accesses a backup db directly rather
> than working through the db dumps.
>
> Anyway... thanks again for pointing that one out... I'll have the guys
> take a look.
> John Q.
>
>
>
>
> Robin Forlonge Patterson wrote:
> > http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm
> > is dated Feb 14. The same link gave me a fairly
> > up-to-date version a few days ago, although I
> > noticed that there were more blank cells athan
> > usual. Is this a known problem?
> >
> > [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
> > 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
> > New Zealand
> > Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
> > http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
> > And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
> > cooperative MediaWiki site
> >
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