Hello,
If I think positive, I have the hope that we can move relatively shortly
the 20% of tools to labs that are producing 80% of our load. So than we
should come back in a stable situation on toolserver with acceptabel
performance. This "stable time" we can use than to run tools until they
are obsolete or moved to labs.
For now you should analyse the system and predict what we will need in
such or an other scenario. It can be that we need so or so some new
database servers, some more storage or whatever. If you need place and
power in the rig, replace old stuff.
In the moment it can also be helpful to be hard and kill some bots/tools
with a relative bad cost-benefit-relation (Perhaps every user can also
check this for it's own, because it's hard to decide from the outside.).
A statistic with the loads of tools would be nice for this.
The actual situation of Toolserver is a shame for Wikimedia Germany!
One actual example is the zoom-viewer[1], it's a tool that is "in
production" on commons. Yesterday I want to use it, but it was unusable
slow. I was so frustrated, but after months with tons of these problems
on the server I feel that it makes no sense to fight against the
situation, if WMDE decide to invest nothing. It's nearly impossible to
develop on this server in the moment, because you get no felling for the
performance of your changes in simple request can take 30sec or so.
Again, only a shame!
For the long term I (as WMDE member) would support Toolserver to win
flexibility and in-dependency. I learn that decisions from WMF can take
months or years. Projects sponsert by WMDE (like my "Multilingual
Maps"[2]) die perhaps because there is no server available.
WMDE has money and it's relatively cheap to invest money into techniques
compared to pay persons in high-wages Germany. I don't believe that we
lose only one donor if we spend money for a server system.
It would be nice if someone could explain me why it should be useful and
secure for free knowledge to collect everything on one system. Yes, I
understand the financial aspect but I also know the fire in the Library
of Alexandria and the Nazi book burnings.
With more than one system in the world the developers can decide where
the best environment and best support is for there work. This option
will motivate all to increase the quality of service. With only one
system we have to live with some decisions and also WMFlabs will become
old over the years and better systems will come.
Greetings Tim alias Kolossos
[1]
http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/iip/wip.php?f=Dresden-Neumarkt-Kulti-2013-04.jpg
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_maps_Wikipedia_project
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