[Web4lib] mediawiki and excessive CPU usage

[Ken Irwin]

Hi folks,

We've got a wiki running on our library website (using MediaWiki 1.6.8) 
and have noticed that since installing it our CPU usage is almost always 
right up at 99% of capacity. About 100 distinct processes related to the 
wiki run about 2000 times every minute. It may be that a high-traffic 
wiki needs all this legwork to keep itself up-to-date and functioning 
well, but this is a super low-traffic wiki. Does anyone know if it's 
possible to get wiki to chill out a bit? ($cpuQualudes = "yes";)

We're thinking of installing additional wikis on the same machine for 
different purposes, and we'd like to not fry its little brain. Any advice?

Thanks
Ken

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Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University