Attempt to solve the job runner situation

Hi all,

Tonight, between 23:00 to 24:30 EST, Ryan and I had the chance to work on the job runner situation [0].

The problem was two-fold. Part of the problem was due to a high level of database writes that was filling the database server storage partitions. The main reason of the problem was because of an ever increasing quantity of jobs being added to MediaWiki's job runner system. Details of the issue are described in [0].

Symptoms of the problem were described in those e-mails: [1][2][3]

Ryan took the decision to truncate SemanticMediaWiki data and delete all SemanticMediaWiki related jobs.

We hope it solves the situation.

  [0]: http://status.webplatform.org/post/66161202718/semantic-mediawiki-update-jobs-problem-repair-in
  [1]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2013Nov/0005.html
  [2]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2013Nov/0015.html
  [3]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2013Nov/0017.html

Renoir 
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