Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kunal Mehta <lego...@member.fsf.org>
* Package name : poolcounter Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> * URL : https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PoolCounter * License : GPL-3.0-or-later Programming Lang: C Description : network daemon which provides mutex-like functionality PoolCounter is a network daemon which provides mutex-like functionality, with a limited wait queue length. If too many servers try to do the same thing at the same time, the wait queue overflows and some configurable action might be taken by subsequent clients, such as displaying an error message or using a stale cache entry. It was created to avoid massive wastage of CPU due to parallel parsing when the cache of a popular article is invalidated (the "Michael Jackson problem"[1]). I'm packaging poolcounter so it can be used with MediaWiki. [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/prince-death-wikipedia/