[Wikia-l] Wikistats reverting to Valentine's Day version?

[JohnQ]

... and enjoy those currency jokes while you can...(at least I hope it's 
short-lived).   :) :)

Jamie Hari wrote:
> To be honest,
>
> We don't need these daily. They simply don't provide enough 
> granularity to be useful on a daily basis.
> Even weekly might be overkill.
>
> Slow the crons down and save Wikia some CPU cycles. I rather see those 
> cycles up front on a Squid! ;)
>
> If you still really want these stats that much, I suggest setting up a 
> new slave with a low synch speed.
> (Obviously it won't matter if this slave is a few minutes/hours behind)
> Slow the cron down to a weekly or bi-weekly run, instead of daily.
>
> Heck.. (en) Wikipedia hasn't been able to successfully complete a 
> stats-run in months!
> Anyone who uses these stats for anything half-way important... should 
> probably reconsider.
>
>
> My 3 cents,
> (2 cents Canadian. hahaha!)
>
> -- 
> Jamie Hari
> Editor-in-Chief
> Marvel & DC Database Projects
>
>
>
> On 12/2/07, *JohnQ* <johnq at wikia.com <mailto:johnq at wikia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Robin... thanks for letting me know. Looking into it.
>
>     As background, processing stats on a daily basis takes a fair
>     amount of
>     computing power...  first, we dump the full db every day (which we'll
>     continue to do for backup purposes)... then we run a MediaWiki
>     program
>     that calcs the stats. This whole process has been taking over 24 hours
>     to complete... at which point our cron job to calc the stats starts up
>     again. We're looking at ways to alternate processes and locations...
>     which would be a short-term solution... but we're hoping to release a
>     new way of calc'ing the stats that accesses a backup db directly
>     rather
>     than working through the db dumps.
>
>     Anyway... thanks again for pointing that one out... I'll have the
>     guys
>     take a look.
>     John Q.
>
>
>
>
>     Robin Forlonge Patterson wrote:
>     > http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm
>     <http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm>
>     > is dated Feb 14. The same link gave me a fairly
>     > up-to-date version a few days ago, although I
>     > noticed that there were more blank cells athan
>     > usual. Is this a known problem?
>     >
>     > [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
>     > 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
>     > New Zealand
>     > Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
>     > http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp <http://wc.rootsweb.com/%7Erobinp>
>     > And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
>     > cooperative MediaWiki site
>     >
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