Its amazingly simple what needs to be done:
either
software wise:
make wikipedia less database reliant, namely, most of wikiepedia's CPU time is being
wasted on
relational operations for ultimately simple queries. EG, when you go to a page, it hits
the
Database, this is clearly unnaccetable for a site of this scale. Simple solution is to
dump out
current versions of articles to file for orders of performance increase. And you could
even have
pre-prepared edit pages as well. And im even told that the database is still being hit
for
"recent-changes", whereas it should be dumped to file every 1-5 minutes.
hardware wise:
put up a donation sign and run a completely transparent donation campaign. eg: say
"we need $4000
for a new server, we have 2000 so far".
The hardware donation issue will eventually become necessary, but it would be an
emabarrassing
course of action given what should have been done software wise ages ago.
I'll do it if you give me an admin account.
--- Karl Eichwalder <ke(a)gnu.franken.de> wrote:
Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> writes:
Yes, the server is overloaded because there are
too many people trying
to use the site.
If the server cannot answer within a acceptable time frame (10 s?), it
should say so. Letting editors wait for a longer period of time, is
userunfriendly.
If the database is too busy, return this info to the editor
immediately, please.
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