Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've deleted all the slow refreshLinks2 jobs which have apparently been >> preventing the job queue from making any headway for the last few months. >> Some people report that they have received hundreds of edit notification >> emails in the last few hours, due to the months of backlog now being cleared. > > So are there no alarm bells that go off when the job queue is > unreasonably long, or do people just not listen to them? Perhaps we > could have a bot in #wikimedia-tech that would complain every hour if > the oldest job in the queue is more than X days old?
If you check the server admin log, you'll find that this is the latest in a long series of attempts to fix this problem. I don't think it's completely fixed yet. I'm not sure what good a complaining bot would do, any more than a complaining user which we seem to have plenty of. Deleting the jobs was not a solution, and can't really be repeated without breaking things. There's still a fair bit more programming to do. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
