[Licom-l] License transition vote setup

Fri Apr 10 15:32:08 UTC 2009

Michael Schultheiss wrote:
> Robert Rohde wrote:
> > Since all of the wiki's content is being run though SSL, is it
> > possible that the extra overhead associated with all of Mediawiki's
> > CSS, JS, and other calls is overtaxing things?  Even given Mediawiki
> > propensity to call up lots of supplemental pages it doesn't seem
> > reasonable that a single editor could be bad enough to cause dropped
> > connections.
> > 
> > Or perhaps Tim may have some ideas for what can cause requests to
> > occasionally fail on an otherwise clean install.
> > 
> > Unfortunately since the problem was intermittent (and often fixed by
> > hitting reload) I don't really have any direct way to demonstrate it.
> 
> The error logs have entries like:
> 
> [Fri Apr 10 15:15:35 2009] [error] access to
> /skins/common/commonPrint.css failed for 87.186.103.210, reason: Client
> exceeded connection limit.
> 
> I can look into increasing the connection limits but that server has
> rather limited resources and I'd hate to overload it.

I've upped the connection limits for wikimedia.spi-inc.org.  They're
currently limited to 15 connections per IP address, with the original
limit set to 5 connections per IP address.  I can adjust the limits
further as necessary as long as we don't overload the server.

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Michael Schultheiss
E-mail: schultmc at spi-inc.org
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