[Labs-l] Catscan2 out of action? (continuation)

Fri Oct 10 15:04:58 UTC 2014

Hi, (Trying again as this didn't come thrugh, please delete if it's a
duplicate.)

Hi,
>
> (joind this list after this was sent, might not connect to the right thread.)
>
> Related to this the developer (CCed here) who created the touch table used at the Vasa museum, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Vasamuseet#Touch_tables, are getting "403 forbidden" replys on questions like "http://tools.wmflabs.org/catscan2/catscan2.php?language=en&depth=1&categories=1600s&comb%5Blist%5D=1&doit=1&format=json" from the table. It's working fine from both his and mine normal browser though.
>
> Could it be blocked or is there some other reason for the 403? Are there any logs available to see what's happening?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> /Axel
>
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/magnustools/toolstatus.html
>
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Dmitry Trofimovich <killwindows at yandex.ru <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l>>
> wrote:
>
> >>* Hello!
> *>>* Catscan2 worked badly recent 3 weeks. It retrieves lists with a big delay
> *>* and if you set a deeper depth (4 and more) it can't handle request.
> *>* It returns
> *>* > ERROR : MYSQL error : Lost connection to MySQL server during query
> *>* [INSERT INTO /* SLOW_OK LIMIT:2000 NM */ /* CATSCAN2 */ temp
> *>* or something like this (I saw the similar one with "DELETE FROM" as well).
> *>* There's a bot in Russian Wikipedia which depends on this service. It
> *>* updates ~700 project pages every day. Now it can update only about 20% of
> *>* that and it spends about 20 hours instead of 4 hours for one run.
> *>>* Jeremy Baron tried to investigate this recently (thanks Jeremy). But I
> *>* didn't get his conclusion.
> *>>* Is there anyone else who can fix catscan2 (or continue investigation) ?
> *>>* I could try but I'm a newbie in Labs :( If no one does then I'll start
> *>* myself :(
> *>>* -- Nirvanchik (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nirvanchik <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nirvanchik>)
> *>>>* _______________________________________________
> *>* Labs-l mailing list
> *>* Labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l>
> *>* https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l>
> *>-------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/attachments/20141010/78ba08ef/attachment.html>
>
>
> /axel
>
> ====================================
> Axel Pettersson
>
>  +46 (0)730 59 58 13
> haxpett at gmail.com
>
> Twitter: @Haxpett <https://twitter.com/#%21/haxpett>
> Blogg: http://haxpett.wordpress.com/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/attachments/20141010/5bafbe8d/attachment.html>