-------------------------------------------------- From: "Gregory Maxwell" <gmaxw...@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:22 AM To: "Happy-melon" <happy-me...@live.com>; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Happy-melon <happy-me...@live.com> wrote: > [snip] >> It's not just that. On a technological level, considerable sections of >> the >> FlaggedRevs code are called on *every* page view, whether the page has >> FlaggedRevs behaviour or not. Even if it's eventually saying "no, carry >> on >> normally" in 99% of the cases, the question is still asked. And asked on >> every one of those six billion pageviews. When the answer is "yes, we >> need >> to do something special here", of course, the load that the FlaggedRevs > > The overwhelming majority of those "six billion pageviews" never > touches mediawiki at all— they're satisfied out of the frontend > caches. Yes, that is true, and I had neglected that point. The squid infrastructure was implemented precisely to save the Apache servers from five of those six billion. Or whatever the number is. > Completely hogwash. Not sure I'd go that far. My point was that every time a page is rendered, extension code adds load, whether or not the extension's behaviour is apparent on that page. Are you saying that that, too, is pure hyperbole? > ...and it's not like we're talking about some extension which was only > ever designed for tiny wikis (as many extensions are), dewp and enwp > were always primary targets for this extension from inception. Indeed. Your point? --HM _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
