Wiki Maintenance: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 00:24, 16 December 2013

Hints about taking care of the wiki.. for better or worse.

Links

Maintenance Scripts

ssh into the dreamhost site
cd wiki.hacdc.org/
php-5.4 maintenance/[somescriptname].php

Content Backup

php-5.4 maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full --report > MW_fullbu_14Dec2012.xml

Gave lots of div by 0 errors, but output seems ok. Have not tried importing it though.

Bad Bot Accounts

php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete >> rmunused.txt &
... run w/o the --delete flag first
tailf rmunused.txt
go read a book

Misc

css tweaks -> http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css
find what IPs have been requesting too many pages..
cat ~/logs/wiki.hacdc.org/http/access.log| awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c |sort -n

Status and Maintenance Record

2013.12.14

The wiki's software is up to date. It's running very slowly and has been for a long time. Created content backup: MW_fullbu_15Dec2013.xml

There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts. Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots. I tweaked the removeUnusedAccounts.php script.. took out the check for logs. Ran and deleted ~146k accounts, couple thousand remain.. dunno why yet.

Ran updateArticleCount.php (was seeing count errors when editing)

..and why is the memory usage so high? top - 15:04:00 up 269 days, 10:53, 2 users, load average: 7.47, 7.45, 6.52 Tasks: 13 total, 4 running, 9 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 56.2%us, 3.6%sy, 19.9%ni, 19.5%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16433988k total, 16262920k used, 171068k free, 1267844k buffers Swap: 7823644k total, 584084k used, 7239560k free, 4145820k cached

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-Hints about taking care of the wiki..  for better or worse.
+Hints about taking care of the wiki..  for better or worse. {{TOCright}}
-=== Bad Bot Accounts ===
+===Links===
+* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts
+* http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php
+* http://wiki.dreamhost.com/MediaWiki
+===Maintenance Scripts===
 * ssh into the dreamhost site
 * cd wiki.hacdc.org/
-* php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php >> remunused.txt
+* php-5.4 maintenance/[somescriptname].php
+===Content Backup===
+* php-5.4 maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full --report > MW_fullbu_14Dec2012.xml
+Gave lots of div by 0 errors, but output seems ok.  Have not tried importing it though.
+=== Bad Bot Accounts ===
+* php-5.4 maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete >> rmunused.txt &
+*: ... run w/o the --delete flag first
+* tailf rmunused.txt
+* go read a book
+===Misc===
+* css tweaks ->  http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/MediaWiki:Common.css
+* find what IPs have been requesting too many pages..
+*: cat ~/logs/wiki.hacdc.org/http/access.log| awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c |sort -n
+----
+----
+==Status and Maintenance Record==
+===2013.12.14===
+The wiki's software is up to date.
+It's running very slowly and has been for a long time.
+Created content backup: MW_fullbu_15Dec2013.xml
+There are exactly 1 gazillion spambot accounts.  Ok, it's actually 149,292 total accounts, most of which are bots.
+I tweaked the removeUnusedAccounts.php script..  took out the check for logs.
+Ran and deleted ~146k accounts, couple thousand remain..  dunno why yet.
+Ran updateArticleCount.php  (was seeing count errors when editing)
+..and why is the memory usage so high?
+<code style="color: blue;">
+top - 15:04:00 up 269 days, 10:53,  2 users,  load average: 7.47, 7.45, 6.52
+Tasks:  13 total,   4 running,   9 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
+Cpu(s): 56.2%us,  3.6%sy, 19.9%ni, 19.5%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.6%si,  0.0%st
+Mem:  16433988k total, 16262920k used,   171068k free,  1267844k buffers
+Swap:  7823644k total,   584084k used,  7239560k free,  4145820k cached
+</code>
+----

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