[Labs-l] Memcached issues on piramido

Wed Jan 30 22:07:44 UTC 2013

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Platonides <platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30/01/13 22:09, Asher Feldman wrote:
> > That message actually means that memcached is working.  The messages
> > keys used as locks are added via the memcached add call, which only
> > returns successfully if the key doesn't already exist.  That could not
> > acquire lock message means that the key already exists, the "lock" is
> > already held and the work associated with it being done by another
> process.
>
> There is another option: memcached is down and the lock cannot be
> created, but nobody holds it, either.
>

That certainly could be the case, but mediawiki should also log memcached
connection failures if so.
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