On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Russell Blau <russblau(a)imapmail.org> wrote:
Well, based on the overwhelming response to my last
message, I guess
nobody but me cares if thyme is lagged by three or four or five
weeks....
I found your post very helpful for a status update of the current
situation. The lag has a huge effect on the WP 1.0 bot that is used to
track article assessments on enwiki, and which has a large user
database as well.
Thyme finished processing the updates in the second
block a few hours
ago, but the replag is continuing to increase. This is very worrisome,
and possibly there is something else going on there that the SHA-1
updates have been masking. All the TS admins seem to be on summer
holiday; is there anyone around who has mysql root access and can look
for problems on thyme?
Just to see if it makes any difference I killed the running WP 1.0
process on thyme. Right now the replag seems to be decreasing at a
tiny rate, less than 10 minutes per hour. There are 411 hours of
replag.
For what it's worth, I would personally prefer a short complete outage
(or make the server read-only) if that would leave us with no replag,
rather than waiting for weeks or months while the replag slowly
decreases.
- Carl