Steve Sanbeg wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:11:33 -0800, Tomasz Finc wrote: > >> Steve Sanbeg wrote: >>> After the last batch of problems were fixed, enwiki was getting dumped >>> almost weekly. But there was no dump in December, and since it seems to >>> be held up dumping the full history with an ETA of Jan 22nd, it seems >>> like it will be at least a few more weeks. >>> >>> So I wanted to check on what kind of schedule to expect. Is this a >>> temporary issue, so we can go back to frequent dumps again once this is >>> done? Or were the frequent dumps a temporary thing, and this is the >>> norm? >>> >>> Would it be difficult to run the current version & full history >>> concurrently on a separate schedule, to allow the current versions to be >>> dumped more frequently? >> Within the last year we've tried to schedule monthly releases at the very >> least. Most consumers are perfectly happy with that data set as the time >> required to go through the copy and process is long enough to where >> anything more recent is unnecessary. >> >> Now with several fixes and the re compression of the text external storage >> we had gotten down to two week cycles for most if not all wikis. >> >> That short release cycle was certainly attractive but not a hard >> requirement. >> >> Since we've crept just over the month cycle I'm certainly tempted to run >> another non full history snapshot in order to catch up. Assuming its >> not too resource intensive. >> >> --tomasz > > OK, thanks. It would definitely be useful for me if we can keep two week > cycles most of the time, and not slip to more than a month. I was > concerned that getting more frequent data was dependent on something else > failing for the dump to be created more frequently, which would be a > shame. Anyway, I'll keep checking for the next dump. > > Thanks > -Steve > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I have an enwiki snapshot running on a separate instance. Will post as soon as it finishes. --tomasz _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
