Extension:PoolCounter

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PoolCounter Release status:Extension status beta
DescriptionTemplate:Extension#description	Provides a MediaWiki client for the pool counter daemon
Author(s)Template:Extension#username	Tim Starling, Platonides
Database changesTemplate:Extension#needs-updatephp	No
LicenseTemplate:Extension#license	GNU GPL2+
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The PoolCounter extension provides a MediaWiki client for the pool counter daemon.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called PoolCounter in your extensions/ folder.

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

  wfLoadExtension( 'PoolCounter' );
  

• Y Done - Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.24 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension() If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.24 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'PoolCounter' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/PoolCounter/PoolCounter.php";

Daemon

The C poolcounterd daemon is in the daemon/ directory. It requires libevent to be installed (libevent-dev on Debian-based systems). Run make to build it, and sudo make install to install it.

To make sure it is running, you can run echo 'STATS FULL' | nc -w1 localhost 7531, which should produce output similar to the following:

uptime: 0 days, 0h 0m 21s
total processing time: 0.000000s
average processing time: 0.000000s
gained time: 0.000000s
waiting time: 0.000000s
waiting time for me: 0.000000s
waiting time for anyone: 0.000000s
waiting time for good: 0.000000s
wasted timeout time: 0.000000s
total_acquired: 0
total_releases: 0
hashtable_entries: 0
processing_workers: 0
waiting_workers: 0
connect_errors: 0
failed_sends: 0
full_queues: 0
lock_mismatch: 0
lock_while_waiting: 0
release_mismatch: 0
processed_count: 0

Configuration

The extension can be configured with the global $wgPoolCountClientConf, which is an associative array with the following keys:

servers

An array of server IP addresses. Adding multiple servers causes locks to be distributed on the client side using a consistent hashing algorithm.

timeout

The connect timeout in seconds.

See also

• $wgPoolCounterConfManual:$wgPoolCounterConf
• wikitech:PoolCounter