Comments on: Database errors on most Wikipedias

By: Church of emacs

Church of emacs — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:35:08 +0000

Harshith : Hey, Is wikitravel.org also down? I am unable to access the websites from a long time.

Wikitravel is not hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Any server issues on either site are not connected to the other.

By: Harshith

Harshith — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:41:06 +0000

Hey,

Is wikitravel.org also down? I am unable to access the websites from a long time.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:08:50 +0000

Thanks for letting us all know.

By: میلاد

میلاد — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:44:33 +0000

Thank’s for you’re support.

By: myself

myself — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:00:25 +0000

This type of problem can actually be anticipated since space disk can be monitored all the time. I hope wikipedia would have funds to upgrade its servers and data storage facility.

By: Phillip Patriakeas

Phillip Patriakeas — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:14:08 +0000

The deletionists are right! Wikipedia *is* running out of space, it’s just not the English WP which is! =O

(I actually can’t believe no one else has said anything to this effect yet)

By: catrope

catrope — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:14:53 +0000

Przemek :
I suggest using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios for disk space monitoring – you can even make it send sms alerts BEFORE the disk gets filled, and it works ! :)

We do use Nagios, but it looks like somehow no one noticed the almost-out-of-space alert.

By: Przemek

Przemek — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:28:56 +0000

I suggest using http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios for disk space monitoring – you can even make it send sms alerts BEFORE the disk gets filled, and it works ! :)

By: Thor Malmjursson

Thor Malmjursson — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:54:14 +0000

catrope
There seems to be the misconception out there that a wiki being on s3 somehow means it has a lower “priority” or that s3 somehow is structurally less stable than the other DB clusters. None of these things are true. If I wrote anything suggesting otherwise, I apologize for not being clearer.

It’s ok, Roan, no biggie – just when you posted yesterday in the -tech channel and on here, iirc you made a reference to small wikis, which gave me the impression that the ones I mentioned (meta, en.wikinews) were considered “small” in relation to others and therefore less important –

I administer a wikipedia which is in *my* eyes, small, tpi.wikipedia and my comparison was thinking that you were labelling things like en.wn small in comparison to others on s3.

Obviously, i made a boob, but thank you for clarifying.

By: Robert Stojnic

Robert Stojnic — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:08:46 +0000

catrope :

Mind filing a Bugzilla bug about this?

Original reporter submitted it as:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24726

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