Re: [MediaWiki-l] Objectcache table - records expiry time 2038

2018-02-06 Thread Brian Wolff
Generally speaking objectcache is used as a last resort form of caching if you dont have apcu, memcached, redis, or something else configured. Truncating the contents of the table will make the next couple of requests to mediawiki slower as some of the cache entries will need to be rebuilt. But it

Re: [MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki podcast: "Between the Brackets"

2018-02-06 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Nicey, congratulations! Consider adding it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_podcasts :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2018-02-06 17:51 GMT+02:00 Yaron Koren :

[MediaWiki-l] New MediaWiki podcast: "Between the Brackets"

2018-02-06 Thread Yaron Koren
Hi everyone, I decided to start a podcast in which I interview developers and users from the MediaWiki community - it's called "Between the Brackets". The first episode was just published today - it's an interview with Cindy Cicalese, who worked with MediaWiki for a long time at MITRE and is now t

[MediaWiki-l] Objectcache table - records expiry time 2038

2018-02-06 Thread John Horne
Hello, We are running an old version of mediawiki (1.24.2), and have noticed recently that overnight we are seeing that the disk utilisation is reaching nearly 100% for almost an hour. During the night, at different times, we run a database backup (mysqldump) and a database check (mysqlcheck). It