It's been pretty slow, with frequent but sort of random, timeouts. Using Firefox 3.5 current.
(I'm sure everyone else noticed this too, and probably sent a billion PMs or whatever)
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Triple BBastard of the NorthMARegistered Userregular
edited August 2009
Request times are taking forever today. For me, at least.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
Recently I've been having an odd problem, seems to have crept up during all this weird slowness.
When I check my subscribed threads, one of the little buttons/lights that tells you if there's a new post (blue dot!) will not load. Instead it will just display the mouse-over alt text stuff instead of the image. Which makes the column extra wide, and everything looks weird. It seems to be just one of the dots, randomly...not like all the orange with blue don't load, or all the gray with blue. It will be just one random dot/pic.
Edit : Does the same with the 'skip to last post' little file/tab pic.
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YamiNoSenshiA point called ZIn the complex planeRegistered Userregular
Recently I've been having an odd problem, seems to have crept up during all this weird slowness.
When I check my subscribed threads, one of the little buttons/lights that tells you if there's a new post (blue dot!) will not load. Instead it will just display the mouse-over alt text stuff instead of the image. Which makes the column extra wide, and everything looks weird. It seems to be just one of the dots, randomly...not like all the orange with blue don't load, or all the gray with blue. It will be just one random dot/pic.
Edit : Does the same with the 'skip to last post' little file/tab pic.
I've been getting that too. If I mouse over it, the image will appear.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
Recently I've been having an odd problem, seems to have crept up during all this weird slowness.
When I check my subscribed threads, one of the little buttons/lights that tells you if there's a new post (blue dot!) will not load. Instead it will just display the mouse-over alt text stuff instead of the image. Which makes the column extra wide, and everything looks weird. It seems to be just one of the dots, randomly...not like all the orange with blue don't load, or all the gray with blue. It will be just one random dot/pic.
Edit : Does the same with the 'skip to last post' little file/tab pic.
I've been getting that too. If I mouse over it, the image will appear.
HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited August 2009
The load times have been picking up again this week. Sometimes I just plain ol' timeout. And often when making posts I'll time out but the post goes through anyway.
Recently I've been having an odd problem, seems to have crept up during all this weird slowness.
When I check my subscribed threads, one of the little buttons/lights that tells you if there's a new post (blue dot!) will not load. Instead it will just display the mouse-over alt text stuff instead of the image. Which makes the column extra wide, and everything looks weird. It seems to be just one of the dots, randomly...not like all the orange with blue don't load, or all the gray with blue. It will be just one random dot/pic.
Edit : Does the same with the 'skip to last post' little file/tab pic.
I've been getting that too. If I mouse over it, the image will appear.
I just wanted people to know that I am still working on this bug.
I put in a fix about 24 hours ago that seems to be helping.
Tech Details:
We seem to be IO bound on our database server. I'm going to order some additional memory and move some services around to give the forums more space.
The tweaks I put in increased the maximum packet size for MySQL, increased the maximum buffer size for FreeBSD sockets, and added additional dedicated space to table indices.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
I just wanted people to know that I am still working on this bug.
I put in a fix about 24 hours ago that seems to be helping.
Tech Details:
We seem to be IO bound on our database server. I'm going to order some additional memory and move some services around to give the forums more space.
The tweaks I put in increased the maximum packet size for MySQL, increased the maximum buffer size for FreeBSD sockets, and added additional dedicated space to table indices.
I have no idea what those technical details mean, but I'm sure you'll find a way to reverse the polarity in time. Keep up the good work. :^:
I just wanted people to know that I am still working on this bug.
I put in a fix about 24 hours ago that seems to be helping.
Tech Details:
We seem to be IO bound on our database server. I'm going to order some additional memory and move some services around to give the forums more space.
The tweaks I put in increased the maximum packet size for MySQL, increased the maximum buffer size for FreeBSD sockets, and added additional dedicated space to table indices.
I have no idea what those technical details mean, but I'm sure you'll find a way to reverse the polarity in time. Keep up the good work. :^:
Big memory, packets, and buffer good.
Small memory, packets, and buffer bad.
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PaperLuigi44My amazement is at maximum capacity.Registered Userregular
I just wanted people to know that I am still working on this bug.
I put in a fix about 24 hours ago that seems to be helping.
Tech Details:
We seem to be IO bound on our database server. I'm going to order some additional memory and move some services around to give the forums more space.
The tweaks I put in increased the maximum packet size for MySQL, increased the maximum buffer size for FreeBSD sockets, and added additional dedicated space to table indices.
I have no idea what those technical details mean, but I'm sure you'll find a way to reverse the polarity in time. Keep up the good work. :^:
I still seem to be having issues. Not getting quite so many time-outs that throw the "this page cannot be found", but still tons of slowdown
Yeah, I've been having significant slowdown today, on the order of some pages taking almost a minute to load, but unlike before, I haven't actually had any errors
I've been getting sporadic "database error" pages, but this morning was super-bad for slowdown. I opened up three threads in different tabs, and it took at least 120 seconds to get them loaded in.
AegisFear My DanceOvershot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered Userregular
edited August 2009
I'm curious, what does IO bound mean? Is it that we have too much daily traffic for the server to keep up with so we're always hitting the maximum that it can handle?
I'm curious, what does IO bound mean? Is it that we have too much daily traffic for the server to keep up with so we're always hitting the maximum that it can handle?
From what alpha said, I get the impression he means there's not enough memory to hold everything, so it has to swap to the hard drive a lot.
Hard drives are the Model Ts. Memory is the rocket car.
To extend/modify the car analogy, I'd say that, since you analogy implies different tech (modernity?) levels.
Hard drives are the superfreighter. Huge, but take a while to load and unload, don't exactly fly.
RAM would be Semi, or perhaps a freight train. Much less capacity, but goes a lot faster.
Cache would be a ballistic missile. Very little space, but super fast.
To extend/modify the car analogy, I'd say that, since you analogy implies different tech (modernity?) levels.
Hard drives are the superfreighter. Huge, but take a while to load and unload, don't exactly fly.
RAM would be Semi, or perhaps a freight train. Much less capacity, but goes a lot faster.
Cache would be a ballistic missile. Very little space, but super fast.
Does that mean that CPU registers are a series of tubes?
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(I'm sure everyone else noticed this too, and probably sent a billion PMs or whatever)
When I check my subscribed threads, one of the little buttons/lights that tells you if there's a new post (blue dot!) will not load. Instead it will just display the mouse-over alt text stuff instead of the image. Which makes the column extra wide, and everything looks weird. It seems to be just one of the dots, randomly...not like all the orange with blue don't load, or all the gray with blue. It will be just one random dot/pic.
Edit : Does the same with the 'skip to last post' little file/tab pic.
I've been getting that too. If I mouse over it, the image will appear.
Thirded. I thought it was just me!
Same for me. They've been timing out for the past 3-4 days, and it was pretty slow before that.
This happens to me, too!
I put in a fix about 24 hours ago that seems to be helping.
Tech Details:
The tweaks I put in increased the maximum packet size for MySQL, increased the maximum buffer size for FreeBSD sockets, and added additional dedicated space to table indices.
I have no idea what those technical details mean, but I'm sure you'll find a way to reverse the polarity in time. Keep up the good work. :^:
Big memory, packets, and buffer good.
Small memory, packets, and buffer bad.
Yeah, I've been having significant slowdown today, on the order of some pages taking almost a minute to load, but unlike before, I haven't actually had any errors
I think if we all band together we can keep laying down jacksons until they get fixed.....
I'm assuming our benevolent benefactors provide all the needed funding.
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From what alpha said, I get the impression he means there's not enough memory to hold everything, so it has to swap to the hard drive a lot.
Hard drives are the Model Ts. Memory is the rocket car.
Hard drives are the superfreighter. Huge, but take a while to load and unload, don't exactly fly.
RAM would be Semi, or perhaps a freight train. Much less capacity, but goes a lot faster.
Cache would be a ballistic missile. Very little space, but super fast.
Does that mean that CPU registers are a series of tubes?