TF2 Wiki talk:Current events

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Current Events?

What do you do in a current event? I know what a current event is but do we do something different on these? Are these just little notes Nos gives to people if something is happening that he's trying to fix? That's what I'm getting out of this. Perhaps we should use this to try to get people together to improve one article a week. Or even better, put up a little something on the main page that redirects people to an article that we, as a community, should all try to pitch in to improve. It doesn't have to be a stub or something, just any old random (non-featured) article.--CountDOODOO 19:22, 1 March 2008 (CST)

Mediawiki performance

Hi, I don't know if you tried this, but we had a serious performance problem with mediawiki until we disabled the page view count. DjMerguez 10:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

I haven't, but I think I know the issue now. Its a problem with Apache not properly killing of the child processes. I've got a script running now that checks the response times of the site, and if they're slow, it restarts apache. It seems to be handling the issue for the time being. I'm looking for a more permanent solution, but haven't found one yet. --Nos 14:11, 26 May 2008 (CST)

Apache is slow

Apache is not very good in handling many requests per second. That is due to its forking mechanism that takes up a lot of RAM. So you could either stack up your RAM or switch to a webserver that is more efficient in handling many requests, like Lighttpd (that also Wikipedia uses ;)) Btw, Medic page does not load for me at all, is that only for me? -- neXXus 3 June 2008 (CST)

Okay, we're trying lighttpd out. So far, things look promising. Load is much lower, but we'll see how it goes after more than 20 minutes or so :). The medic page was having issues. I removed the Languages template which seems to cause issues. Not sure why. Maybe somebody with more wiki knowledge than I have can look into it. -- Nos 4 June 2008

The speed is really nice now, good work! -- neXXus 14 June 2008 (CST)

Once upon a time I was the sysadmin for GuildWiki (before the owner sold it to Wikia). I guess the change to lighttpd was sufficient, but I think the problem with your Template:Languages is that every time a page using the template gets rendered by MediaWiki, it checks for the existence of piles of pages. This might suck depending on your hardware/software/visitor load. --Fyren 23:03, 30 June 2008 (UTC)