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Connection Time-Outs

ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
edited June 2007 in H.Q. Reception Desk
I keep getting an error page in Firefox about Penny Arcade taking too long to respond. I mean, at least 1 every 5 refreshes. What's the deal?

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Same.

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2007
    Me three.

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  • FunkyWaltDoggFunkyWaltDogg Columbia, SCRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I'm getting them too, but they are a known issue.
    Ramius wrote: »
    The timeouts are a known hardware issue which I've been informed is being corrected in the near future.

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Well, if they're happening more recently, might be because:
    http://internethealthreport.com/Main.aspx?Period=RH1

    AT&T is currently taking a crap right now.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Last two weeks I've been having the site taking a dump on me for about 1-2 miutes at least 5-10 times an hour. Happens from work or home, with multiple browsers.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    ITT: Redundancy

    (I'm having the problem too, while posting this reply too)

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  • Atlus ParkerAtlus Parker Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I'm having the same problem not just with the forums but with the comic pages as well. When one fails to load the other fails to load as well.

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  • KreutzKreutz Blackwater Park, IARegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Atlus Parker wrote: »
    I'm having the same problem not just with the forums but with the comic pages as well. When one fails to load the other fails to load as well.

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Happened last night during the debate.

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  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    It's the load balancer, which will hopefully be replaced soon. Nothing we can do about it until it is.

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited June 2007
    It's hella annoying, I agree.

    Amazingly, it is not annoying enough to be keeping people away; we had a record-high one-day pageview count last week.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited June 2007
    could it be related to extra stress from the new caching thing?

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  • SmasherSmasher Starting to get dizzy Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Really? Last week and not two weeks ago? I'd have thought the pounding the forums got during the SC2 announcement would have taken the cake.

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited June 2007
    uhhhh, lemme dbl-check

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited June 2007
    yep.
    Wednesday, May 30, 2007 417,440 pageviews

    The previous record was:
    Monday, April 23, 2007 417,355 pageviews



    My best guess is it has something to do with the article in PC Gamer?

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited June 2007
    Cardboard Tube wrote: »
    could it be related to extra stress from the new caching thing?

    not sure what you mean by "caching thing"? I believe the load balancer itself is a caching thing, and it is broken.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited June 2007
    When the "mark threads as read" cacheing type affair was changed from cookie based to server based, there was some talk that it puts extra stress on the server, I wondered if that was relevant.

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited June 2007
    ah, no. That puts load on the database server, which is at the far back end of the chain. Our problem is in the load balancer which is at the far front of the chain. The database server is doing peachy, last I heard.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    And if it were the DB server, wouldn't you get "Couldn't connect to MySQL" or something like that?

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  • RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited June 2007
    nah, with vBulletin I think you get a fancy schmancy error message and I get an email that says "can't connect to MySQL" or something like that.

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Blade server? Blade server.

    ducks

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