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[SPLIT] Slow forums

RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
edited August 2006 in H.Q. Reception Desk
I've noticed that the forums have felt... unresponsive all day. Often times I have to click a link over and over for a minute or two to get into a thread.

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  • Dyrwen66Dyrwen66 the other's insane Denver CORegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Yeah, same problem. I seem to have to click everything twice just to get it to load.

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  • ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Hm. I think I know what is causing that. Is this a problem for many other people?

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  • EpiphyteEpiphyte Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    alphamonkey wrote:
    Hm. I think I know what is causing that. Is this a problem for many other people?
    I'm having the same issue alpha. Also, ocassionally I will get the "You have been banned" message when I try to enter a thread or another subforum.

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  • The_Infernal_MachineThe_Infernal_Machine Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    For a brief period of time, when I was just lurking on the forums, a message "You are banned from these forums" popped up.

    I closed the window, opened a new one, and the screen went away. My name isn't in the "who got banned" thread, so I think it's a bug.

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  • ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Nevermind. I put in the premium gas to speed things up :wink:

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited August 2006
    Whatever you did, it really seems to have worked. Things are moving very, very quickly now.

    Great job, Alpha.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    I'm getting intermittent slowness from the forums. Every few minutes it starts to take a long time (a minute or so) to load a page, then goes back to normal.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited August 2006
    Haven't noticed it. Things have been positively zippy all morning.

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  • CycloneCyclone IARegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Things are still running slower for me. Nothing unbearable, but noticeable.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    It just happened again to me. It's more like every 15-20 minutes.
    I guess it might be a different problem than what was happening before, maybe just something wrong with me.

    Edit: ok, the timing is pretty random. It's happened more frequently just now. When it happens the site just stops for 30 seconds to a minute, can't load any pages, but I don't get an error or page not found. It keeps thinking it's loading but nothing happens until the slowdown goes away. Clicking other links or refreshing runs into the same problem.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited August 2006
    This is interesting...

    I hit my first slowdown for the day, and when I got into SE++, this happened:

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    oh, and when I went to post this, this happened.

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  • redstormpopcornredstormpopcorn Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    That's just those two images not loading; it's showing the alt-text for them instead.

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  • ShadeShade Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Everything seems ok except H/A for me, which is wracked by some unknown agony.

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  • Doctor SnakeDoctor Snake PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    things are running intermintently slowly for me as well. There was a long period of probably 8 hours in which I could not access the forums at all.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited August 2006
    Sometimes it takes a good minute or two for a page to load (if at all). But it's not a permanent thing, once it loads the forum will be well again, if only for a while.

    Happens mostly when I submit a post, but on occasion I get it when trying to see a thread or other part of the forums.

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  • Doctor SnakeDoctor Snake PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Frequently, I cannot access the forums at all. Sometimes, if I reset my router and modem, I am able to.

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  • ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Rorus Raz wrote:
    Sometimes it takes a good minute or two for a page to load (if at all). But it's not a permanent thing, once it loads the forum will be well again, if only for a while.

    Happens mostly when I submit a post, but on occasion I get it when trying to see a thread or other part of the forums.
    Yeah I know about this bug. In a cruel twist of fate, our load balancer has a bug in it that causes it to reboot which takes 60-70 seconds. I know. I have awesome luck. I've got a call into support, and this is a severity two service interruption, so it should be resolved sooner rather than later.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited August 2006
    Ah cool, thanks for the heads-up. Appreciate it.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Good to hear.

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  • ZedroZedro Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    The forums are still unresponsive for me.

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  • EWomEWom Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    alphamonkey wrote:
    Hm. I think I know what is causing that. Is this a problem for many other people?

    Yeah, sometimes I can't get into a forum or thread. It's very slow, and I often get TimeOut errors.

    On occasion closing and reoponing FireFox (w/ latest updates) fixes it short term, but that lasts about 6min or so, then the same thing happens. And the mroe I close and reopen the less it works.

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  • Mom2KatMom2Kat Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Started this morning. I click a link it seems to be loading fine, but then stalls out. I hit refresh and page loads quite quickly.

    IE 6, XP Pro, no tabbed browsing.

    Thanks Alpha for all you do.

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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    I have to click on everything twice. Been like that for about a week now. Also today the comic isn't loading. That's not new either, seems like the front page gets updated before the comic goes up. Often hours before...

    Oh also, if I hit F5 (reload) nothing happens, ever. It just sits there churning and I have to hit STOP, BACK, etc..

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    OH GOF IT'S TERRIBLE RIGHT NOW
    I can barely do anything between the hangs. It was a struggle merely to post this.



    Several hours later, still quite severe.

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  • Non-Existent FreezerNon-Existent Freezer Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    I've been having quite a bit of trouble with this, but only in Firefox. Usually when something doesn't work in FF and I assume that it should, I check it out using IE. It's been loading perfectly with IE, but with FF I haven't been able to get anything to load for the past several minutes. I'm going to say that's probably just a coincidence though. Or maybe a conspiracy.

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  • redxredx I(x)=2(x)+1 whole numbersRegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    uh...well, would the setting for when it times out be tied to the browser?

    if it was kinda marginal, that could be the diffrence.

    I'm getting a lot of time out errors in firefox, if that is not what you are talking about.

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    In Safari, it works fine for a while, but slows down the longer I'm on.

    However, when I reload from the my bookmark for the index, it goes back to average speed.

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  • redxredx I(x)=2(x)+1 whole numbersRegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    fucking wierd. Just stoped working. I tried it in IE it worked. Then it worked in firefox. I like, right away it started working. like, would be a hell of a coincidence if it was something purely load related.

    wacky.

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  • Non-Existent FreezerNon-Existent Freezer Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    redx wrote:
    I'm getting a lot of time out errors in firefox, if that is not what you are talking about.
    Yes, that is what I was referring to. As I said, it could just be a matter of the forums being temporarily wonky and the whole browser thing could be purely coincidental.

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  • TheGreat2ndTheGreat2nd Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    The forums are starting to stutter on and off. In bursts, I would say.
    :|

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  • chrpnkchrpnk Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    TheGreat2nd wrote:
    The forums are starting to stutter on and off. In bursts, I would say.
    :|

    Yeah, same here. It works for a few minutes, then it stops. I close firefox and open it back up and a few minutes later it stops again.

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  • ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    New load balancer is being sent. No tracking number as of yet. I'll keep you guys posted.

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