[Wikia-l] site lag

[JohnQ]

Hi Cizaña... yes, understand the concern.

For advance warning, if a DPL command is modified on-page and starts to 
effect the site usually we first try to identify what specific query it 
is and then we'll just edit that page, change the command, and leave a 
note on the talk page... but we have to act immediately if it's really 
affecting everyone.

In this particular case, we had a hard time pinning down where the 
request was coming from and, once we did, we removed it but some users 
were adding the command in other places (I think - a bit fuzzy about 
that right now).

The commands are typically pretty complex. We understand the intent 
isn't malicious and only turn off DPL on a wiki if we really don't have 
any other choice (like this time). Then we work with them to turn it 
back on.

I'm hoping we'll have a way to sandbox this soon so that it won't be a 
concern. :)

Thanks,
John Q.


Cizaña wrote:
> If the issue is reproducible on other wikis would be great to know 
> what we should avoid doing.
>
> About the restrictions i hope we get a notice on what will be the 
> restriction with a few days in advance so each wiki has time to cope 
> with their lists if they are going to be affected.
>
> Thanks
> Ciz
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 4:28 PM, JohnQ <johnq at wikia.com 
> <mailto:johnq at wikia.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     DPL is currently disabled on one or two wikis and we'll be having a
>     discussion with them. In addition, we'll be working on ways to sandbox
>     these requests in several ways on the backend.
>
>     An ancillary issue during all this is that one of our cache
>     servers was
>     acting up. We've restarted that one.
>
>     Thanks for your patience,
>     John Q.
>
>
>     JohnQ wrote:
>     > Hi Scott ...
>     >
>     > I have someone looking into it. Yesterday it was the DPL
>     extension and
>     > I've asked inez to completely disable that extension on the wiki in
>     > question if it's happening again.
>     >
>     >  From yesterday's problem with this we have some ideas on how to let
>     > everyone still use DPL but limit the effects... We'll look into
>     that
>     > as soon as we're back from Seattle.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > John Q.
>     >
>     >
>     > Sent from my iPhone
>     >
>     > On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:22 PM, "Scott Hanson" <
>     scarecroe at gmail.com <mailto:scarecroe at gmail.com>>
>     > wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >> Hi,
>     >>
>     >> Is there scheduled maintenance today, or is this leftover from
>     >> yesterday's issues?
>     >>
>     >> Thanks,
>     >> Scott
>
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