[Labs-l] Memcached issues on piramido

Wed Jan 30 23:34:19 UTC 2013

On 01/30/2013 04:37 PM, Platonides 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.
> 
> What is piramido (an instance, a project, a software...) ?

It is an instance (http://piramido.wmflabs.org/) running MW and memcached.

Matt Flaschen