https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18483





--- Comment #25 from Andrew Garrett <[email protected]>  2009-07-05 
19:19:34 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> It seems that the issue is that the linktable updates that trigger cascading
> protection run through the job queue and are thus potentially delayed if the
> job queue is long.  The solution, therefore, is to ensure that the
> templatelinks and imagelinks tables are updated quickly after a
> cascade-protected page is updated.
> 
> IIRC someone (Tim?) is working on an improved job queue construction; as
> suggested in comment#12, a 'priority stream' should be considered in that
> system.  In the meantime (and perhaps even regardless), it would seem to be
> sensible to update these tables *immediately* as part of the page save, if the
> page is cascade-protected.  Since only admins can save cascade-protected 
> pages,
> this whould not be a DoS vector.

Requires serious rearchitecture, which is not justified by a minor problem for
which a basic workaround exists.


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