On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 11:26, E23 wrote: The sad truth is that we *know* the Wikipedia's too slow. It's been too slow for most of its existence, yet it's still growing -- of course, that's why it's always slow! ;) There have been occasional /extra/ slow spots that have slowed the growth curve temporarily, and have been generally solved through hardware upgrades. Unfortunately that takes money, so we can't do it as readily as installing a program or tweaking a configuration file. A minor upgrade to the database server and a complete overhaul of the web server should be coming in a few days; once that's done we can finish moving all the web work off the database server, and then we can think about adding more web servers to split the load. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)