On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 23:04 +0300, Isam Bayazidi wrote:
squid will help when there is more reading than
writing .. for the
Wikipedia.. for small Wikis, probably there is more writing than
reading.. with editing and writing, squid won't have much effect I guess
(unless I don't fully understand the purpose of squid)
There's alway more reading than writing, but only anonymous requests are
cached currently- it wouldn't help for editing right now.
At the same
time, of course, I do recognize that donors care about
what *they* care about, and frequently of course this would be their
own language wikipedia. That's not a bad thing, it's only natural.
And I don't want to discourage donors who want to help -- particularly
not if the alternative is to have them fund a fork out of frustration.
If it is technically possible, and the funding cover all costs of it,
it will be great to open such door, as Wikipedians will start to look
for local donors who may be interested to support that language
Wikipedia, and probably, this will help to make the "global" resources
and donations more effective in terms of resource sharing.
An additional apache or (even more useful) another DB would help of
course.
However, i think that there's a lot of potential left in caching
(roughly 1/3 of all requests still aren't cached while the number of
edits should be something like 2% of all requests). See my earlier post
about this. Something like sponsored bounties for bigger tasks could
motivate developers to spend more time on these things.
Also the DB needs a decent 64bit Kernel to use the full RAM, something
that's impossible to do without a second DB.
I am no expert here, but in simple language, how much
boost in the speed
Wikipedia will have ? 10% ? 50% ? more ?
and will those additions allow things like the "Search" to be enabled ?
or "Search" is resource eating in a way that we will not see it back any
time soon ?
It's expensive for the DB, it might be ok to enable it again when both
DB's are set up, although sooner or later the growth will eat that
performance as well.
It seems to be a bit like highways- the more you build, the more are
needed..
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Gabriel Wicke