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Job queue on English Wikipedia is "empty", but also seems not to be running
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The job queue on English Wikipedia is reported as having zero jobs (presume this means "empty") at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=statistics and has done so since 22:22, 3 July 2013 - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT#Category:Musical_theatre_articles_missing_an_image_in_infobox However, template edits occur sufficiently frequently - see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=10&tagfilter=&title=Special%3ARecentChanges - that the job queue should rarely be empty.

Yesterday, I made an edit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:BS-overlap&diff=prev&oldid=563708442 which should have placed over 10000 pages into the job queue - but it did not. My edit should have caused certain pages (such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Isle_of_Wight_Central_Railway and anything which transcludes that) to appear in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:RDTs_with_overlaps_but_no_base_icon but they have only been appearing there when a transcluding page was edited for some other reason (for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Isle_of_Wight_Central_Railway&diff=563742718&oldid=537800308

I can only conclude that the job queue, if it is running, is very full; and that the size is so large (integer overflow?) that the API cannot cope and so reports zero.


Version: 1.22.0
Severity: major

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:43 AM
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I believe they moved JobQueues to Redis backend which doesn't display the size of queue. Whether the jobs are running or not and how many there are I can't answer.

reedy@tin:~$ mwscript showJobs.php enwiki
82621

(In reply to comment #1)

I believe they moved JobQueues to Redis backend which doesn't display the
size of queue.

That's correct (cf. bug 50635).

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50635 ***