Re: [MediaWiki-l] Database Issues Upgrading from 1.14 to 1.19

2012-09-04 Thread Dave Humphrey
Changing to use the cache directory did indeed work fine, and thanks for the note about the PoolCounter which we'll look into. On 2 September 2012 19:52, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 02/09/12 00:37, Dave Humphrey wrote: - An issue with the MediaWiki localization db cache

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Database Issues Upgrading from 1.14 to 1.19

2012-09-02 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Dave Humphrey d...@uesp.net wrote: My next guess on what to try is to set $wgCacheDirectory to a local directory which should completely avoid using the database for any localization messages if I understand things correctly. Yes, that's right.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Database Issues Upgrading from 1.14 to 1.19

2012-09-02 Thread Tim Starling
On 02/09/12 00:37, Dave Humphrey wrote: - An issue with the MediaWiki localization db cache when used with a high traffic site. The DB store for the localisation cache is not really intended for high-traffic sites, it's intended to make small wikis work out of the box without extra

[MediaWiki-l] Database Issues Upgrading from 1.14 to 1.19

2012-09-01 Thread Dave Humphrey
We've twice tried to upgrade our MediaWiki site (www.uesp.net) running MediaWiki 1.14 to 1.19 but had the same problem each time. The basic upgrade process and resulting issue goes like: - Set wiki to read only mode. - Backup database and copy into a new database. - Upgrade the new database to