Chad wrote:
> On Sep 20, 2009 10:49 PM, "Tim Starling" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> APseudoUtopia wrote: > I'm running MW 1.15.1. I'm having a problem with the
>> Job Queue. I > noticed t...
>> This is most likely due to a known bug in Special:Statistics, which
>> causes it to give inaccurate numbers for the number of jobs remaining
>> in the queue. You can get an accurate count by running an SQL query,
>> say using phpMyAdmin:
>> 
>> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM jobs;
> 
> On that note, is there really any better way we could
> do this? Right now if I'm remember correctly we check
> the results of an EXPLAIN for an estimate. Is select
> count(*) just impossibly slow, even if we cached the
> result for an hour or whatever?

It's only slow if there are a large number of jobs. We could just do
the EXPLAIN, and if it's less than say 10000, then we could follow it
up with a COUNT(*) to get a more accurate result.

-- Tim Starling


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