Manual:Maxlag parameter/uk

If you are running MediaWiki on a replicated database cluster (like Wikimedia is), then high edit rates may cause the slave servers to lag. One way to mitigate slave lag is to have all bots and maintenance tasks automatically stop whenever lag goes above a certain value. In MediaWiki 1.10, the maxlag parameter was introduced which allows the same thing to be done in client-side scripts. In 1.27, it was updated to only work for  requests.

Параметр maxlag може передаватися до api.php через параметр URL або дані POST. Це — ціле число секунд. Наприклад, [/w/api.php?action=query&titles=MediaWiki&format=json&maxlag=1 це посилання] показує метадані про сторінку "MediaWiki", тільки якщо затримка перевищує 1 секунду, тоді як [/w/api.php?action=query&titles=MediaWiki&format=json&maxlag=-1 це] (з -1 у кінці) показує фактичну затримку без метаданих.

Якщо вказаний лаг перевищено на час запиту, то повертається код стану 503 (або 200 при запитах API, див. T33156), з тілом відповіді у такому форматі:

Встановлено такі заголовки HTTP:


 * Retry-After: a recommended minimum number of seconds that the client should wait before retrying
 * X-Database-Lag: The number of seconds of lag of the most lagged slave

Recommended usage for Wikimedia wikis is as follows:


 * Use maxlag=5 (5 seconds). This is an appropriate non-aggressive value, set as default value on Pywikibot. Higher values mean more aggressive behaviour, lower values are nicer.
 * If you get a lag error, pause your script for at least 5 seconds before trying again. Be careful not to go into a busy loop.
 * It's possible that with this value, you may get a low duty cycle at times of high database load. That's OK, just let it wait for off-peak. We give humans priority at times of high load because we don't want to waste their time by rejecting their edits.
 * Unusually high or persistent lag should be reported to on irc.freenode.net.
 * Interactive tasks (where a user is waiting for the result) may omit the maxlag parameter. Noninteractive tasks should always use it. See also API:Etiquette.

Note that the caching layer (Varnish or squid) may also generate error messages with a 503 status code, due to timeout of an upstream server. Clients should treat these errors differently, because they may occur consistently when you try to perform a long-running expensive operation. Repeating the operation on timeout would use excessive server resources and may leave your client in an infinite loop. You can distinguish between cache-layer errors and MediaWiki lag conditions using any of the following:


 * X-Database-Lag header is distinctive to slave lag errors in MediaWiki
 * No Retry-After in Varnish errors
 * X-Squid-Error header should be present in squid errors
 * The response body in slave lag errors will match the regex

Для цілей тестування ви можете навмисно розробити програмне забезпечення, що відмовляється від запиту, передаючи від'ємне значення, наприклад, у такій URL-адресі: [/w/api.php?action=query&titles=MediaWiki&format=json&maxlag=-1 /w/api.php?action=query&titles=MediaWiki&format=json&maxlag=-1].

The maxlag parameter is checked in MediaWiki.php, and also applies to the action API.