ori added a comment.

In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118162#1795369, @jcrespo wrote:

> - The cron jobs run as wikiadmin, which are on purpose not limited in 
> execution time, so there is no protection against them overflowing a database 
> server




In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118162#1795406, @daniel wrote:

> - rewriting the dispatch logic to rely on the job queue has long been on the 
> todo list, see T48643: [Story] Dispatching via delayed jobs (instead of cron 
> script) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48643>. It's not trivial to get 
> right, though.


Ok, so it sounds like we have:

- A very severe problem.
- Agreement on how to mitigate it.

@Lydia_Pintscher, could you please make this a priority? Especially since the 
sprint goal of checking if this has been resolved has just been accomplished 
for you by Jaime.


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