stevertigo wrote: > Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: >> nagios? >> ganglia? >> 4-CPU apache? >> scap? >> swap? >> memcached node? >> <eyes glazing over> >> Is it fixed now? Oh, good. :-) > > Off the top of my head... > > "Nagios" is ostensibly the report server and caching manager and > "ganglia" IIRC is a page caching manager.
Actually neither of them are "caching managers" or have any direct role in caching. This isn't the forum to go into a detailed discussion of what they do mean, and a google search would do just as well to fill Carcharoth in, if he was actually interested, which he obviously isn't. > "Caching" basically just > means keeping wiki pages in RAM so that things get fetched quickly - > most people are not logged in so they get the same HTML and reuse the > same CSS. This is not particularly accurate either. > The main concept was that the error not only caused caching servers > that were supposed to keep pages in RAM had to dump these pages into > swap memory, but it affected a main caching node through which other > nodes... do stuff... apparently. "Memcached" is the name of the > caching software, or rather one of them, and the first one implemented > here. IIRC it was first developed for /. (?), I think you mean LiveJournal. > and kind of kept WP > barely alive through the great traffic growth spurts of 04 and 05. > > I looked up "scap" and still dunno what it is. http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Scap Liam Wyatt wrote: > Just like there's a certain amount of (anti)prestige associated with being > one of the admins who've managed to delete the mainpage > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Main_Page is > there also a barnstar for being a techie who has unintentionally taken the > whole site down? :-) We don't make a big deal of it. Unlike deleting the main page, crashing the site is an easy mistake to make. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
