Re: [Toolserver-l] Newbie question: definition of a "heavy job" for toolserver

2010-11-17 Thread Alex Brollo
2010/11/17 River Tarnell > > You shouldn't worry too much about resource use as long as it's not > excessive. > We (TS admins) will let you know if you seem to be using too many > resources. This is exactly what I'd like to know. :-) > > Feel free to send me your best link to a tutorial "Unix

Re: [Toolserver-l] Newbie question: definition of a "heavy job" for toolserver

2010-11-17 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Brollo: > Have I some Unix tool to evaluate server resource used running a script? Yes, but it depends on operating system. If you're using a Solaris server (willow), use prstat: $ prstat -aU $LOGNAME Or on Linux (nightshade), use top: $ t

Re: [Toolserver-l] Newbie question: definition of a "heavy job" for toolserver

2010-11-17 Thread Alex Brollo
2010/11/17 River Tarnell > Alex Brollo: > > My question is: how many pywikipedia readings/editing per hour are a > "heavy" > > toolserver job? > > We don't usually measure resource use in "pywikipedia readings/editing per > hour" ;-) The most common indicators of resource use are CPU time and > m

Re: [Toolserver-l] Newbie question: definition of a "heavy job" for toolserver

2010-11-17 Thread River Tarnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Brollo: > My question is: how many pywikipedia readings/editing per hour are a "heavy" > toolserver job? We don't usually measure resource use in "pywikipedia readings/editing per hour" ;-) The most common indicators of resource use are CPU time

[Toolserver-l] Newbie question: definition of a "heavy job" for toolserver

2010-11-17 Thread Alex Brollo
Hi all, I'm a new and very ntimidited toolserver user :-) Presently I'm doing some "Hello world" tests only, as I told in a previuos message, but I'd like to run from toolserver my pywikipedia bot, Alebot, that is a rather busy one ( http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/BotActivityMatrix.htm).