FYI.

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From: Ben Hartshorne <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Deploying Swift for thumbnails next Mon-Thurs Feb 6-9
To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>


Hi Everyone,

Just to let you know, this deploy started this morning (with a few hiccups)
and Swift is now serving a small percentage of production traffic (about 6
queries per second).  As before, please find me in IRC or leave a message
on the SwiftMedia/Issues page if you have bugs to report.

Thanks!

-ben (aka maplebed on IRC)

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Ben Hartshorne
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Next week we're going to switch the back end system that hosts
> thumbnail[1] images.  We have been using 
> ms5<http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/?r=day&cs=&ce=&m=&c=Miscellaneous+pmtpa&h=ms5.pmtpa.wmnet>(a
>  Sun server running linux) to serve all thumbnails.  We are switching to 
> Openstack
> Swift <http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Swift>, a clustered object
> store.  Though we have done testing and expect no problems, I want to
> publicize the change so that if issues do appear, they are quickly directed
> to the right place.
>
> Here's the schedule:
> * Monday Feb 6th: move 0.4% of all thumbnail traffic from ms5 to swift.
> Only thumbnails with "/thumb/a/a2/"[2] in the URL will be affected.
> * Tuesday: move 12.5% of traffic - thumbnails with "/thumb/a/" or
> "/thumb/b/" will be affected
> * Wednesday: move 50% of traffic - thumbnails with "/thumb/(a-f or 0 or
> 1)/" will be affected
> * Thundlay: move 100% of traffic - all thumbnails will be served from Swift
>
> Potential symptoms that might  be related to this change on Monday:
> * a thumbnail image with /a/a2/ simply fails to load
> ** try changing the number preceding 'px' to generate a different size
> image[3]
> * you delete an image and the thumbnail is still available
> ** try purging the cache[4] and see if that makes it go away
> ** try changing the number preceding 'px' and see what happens
> * you move an image to a new name and it's still available at the old
> name, when either the new or old name has /a/a2/ in the URL
> ** please provide full URLs for both the new and old names
>
> If any of these things happen, or if something else odd happens with
> images or thumbnails and you feel it might be related, please join
> #wikimedia-tech in IRC and ping me (maplebed) or Aaron (AaronSchulz).  If
> neither of us are available or you would prefer to just leave us a message,
> add a note to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/SwiftMedia/Issues.  :)  If
> things are severely broken, you can ask someone in the #wikimedia-tech to
> page me.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> -ben
>
> [1] In case you don't know what I mean by thumbnail images, I'm talking
> about all URLs that start http://upload.wikimedia.org/ and have /thumb/
> in the path.  When an image is uploaded to a wiki (or commons), Mediawiki
> automatically generates scaled versions of the image.  These are what I
> call 'thumbnails'.  Nearly every time an image is used in a wiki page it is
> actually a thumbnail being used.  Try going to any wiki page with an image,
> right click on the image, and choose 'view image'.  You'll get something
> like
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Liberty_Head_Nickel_1883_NoCents_Obverse.png/100px-Liberty_Head_Nickel_1883_NoCents_Obverse.png[5]
>  as the URL (this was taken from enwiki's featured article today)
>
> [2] For example, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons*
> /thumb/a/a2/*Little_kitten_.jpg/800px-Little_kitten_.jpg [6]
>
> [3] For example,
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Little_kitten_.jpg/
> *799px*-Little_kitten_.jpg
>
> [4] Find the URL for the main image file (rearrange the URL to find the
> original image - /wikipedia/commons -> commons.wikipedia.org) and add
> "?action=purge" to the end of the URL (eg
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_kitten_.jpg?action=purge
>
> [5] Image in the public domain
>
> [6] cc-by 3.0, 
> Alexanderwdark<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Alexanderwdark&action=edit&redlink=1>
>
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