I was doing an update earlier in potlatch and it was taking for ever to respond, however I noticed later in the changesets that a bot was running at the time, I thinking bots should be run over night when it's quite, then I realised where the bot is maybe night time, oh well, perhaps bots should pace themselves in some way so not to overload the system
Discussion
ایہہ 11؍October 2010ء 23:02 تے «smsm1» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Bots should just be banned.
ایہہ 12؍October 2010ء 07:50 تے «drlizau» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
You should be aware that when it is nighttime at my place it is daytime across the other side of the globe.
It is impossible for a bot to "run at nighttime" because it is always daytime somewhere.
ایہہ 12؍October 2010ء 14:19 تے «Gnonthgol» ٹپݨی کیتی گئی سی۔
Looking at http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/smaug.openstreetmap/index.html the database has a lower load between 00:00 and 06:00 GMT. It would seem that that is the best time to run bots.