bofors Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Over the past few weeks, there have been rather frequent episodes of really bad board performance. Sometimes the forum is just absurdly slow and other times it just plan fails to even load. I assume the admins. are aware of these problems, but I would like to know if there is a plan to fix whatever is causing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I've experienced the same thing in the past few hours. Just a little feedback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaberSHO Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Yep, its been having trouble for at least the past week on and off, but in the past few hours, the site just refused to load. Others on IRC noticed the same problem. Just adding another report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 same thing here except i thought for a while it was just the digg effect but it has been happening for weeks now. Especially in the mornings around 7 AM CST in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_4e Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Yeah, all the admins and mods are well aware of the situation and are trying very hard to get things all figured out. I'll leave it for them to give a "why" but just keep in mind they're working very hard in order to get it working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted November 20, 2006 Author Share Posted November 20, 2006 I'll leave it for them to give a "why" but just keep in mind they're working very hard in order to get it working. I am sure that it must be all Microsoft's fault (just waiting for confirmation). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 yes it must be that f***g Bill again.Microsoft strikes back i guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Over the past few weeks, there have been rather frequent episodes of really bad board performance. Sometimes the forum is just absurdly slow and other times it just plan fails to even load. I assume the admins. are aware of these problems, but I would like to know if there is a plan to fix whatever is causing them. Yes, the admin team are aware of it. And they are trying to fix it. I thought I'd post on behalf of the admin team, since they haven't said anything here yet. To quote from sHARD>>: Still a few lingering tweaks related to the problems we've been having the last two weeks. There was a modification in the Apache/PHP/MediaWiki triangle of magic that turned it more into a lopsided hexagon. Well, that's as technical as it's gonna get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 actually it seems to be much better this week or im just getting lucky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 That's right. It's great now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostgame Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 I have noticed that the board goes offline and online sporadically-it's always been that way, since I joined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted November 24, 2006 Share Posted November 24, 2006 Blame apache we are aware of it and a solution is being researched. Also the server got upgraded a few weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 400 simontasely users is a lot for every website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 This site can easily cope with 600-700 users without any huge slowdowns. As I said earlier the problem is with apache messing up randomly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Ok, btw it is terrrible slow on this moment, most topics time out when opening or i get a page to see after 3 minutes. Hadnt had any problems today before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Thanks for all the input guys. We're working hard to pin down the problem and get it fixed. We've been proud of our performance in the past and want to maintain that. Having said that, if any of you are server (mainly Apache/SQL) experts, please let us know. We'd appreciate your assistance! -Mash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 what apache version is the site using? I read recently you upgraded the php, so myabe its time to upgrade the apache, btw does it return to normal if you restart apache? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 It works but as for this time. When i open a page i have to wait 25 seconds for it to display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wow Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 forget about the fine. All my pages time out on this moment. Surfing is almost impossible now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 with I Explorer :it never loads the forum with Firefox :it loads when the fox wants with Netscape :it loads but slow as hell.hemm......but it loads! why is it like this? no idea i m not receiving any money from Netscape developers .just in case i put this to inform the staff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 Mash, check where the bottleneck is, first: CPU, RAM, HDD. CPU is checked with uptime (shows the load) RAM is checked with free (see the swap usage and free RAM without buffers) and with vmstat at swap in/swap on fields (if there is too much activity there, then it is a problem). Also, with vmstat you see context switches (too many processes/threads). HDD is checked with iostat and see iowait value and transactions per second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asapreta Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Only now the board is performing well. All day it was bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Yeah i cant connect for an hour sometimes, Forget Apache just use ISS its teh bomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted November 29, 2006 Author Share Posted November 29, 2006 Having said that, if any of you are server (mainly Apache/SQL) experts, please let us know. We'd appreciate your assistance! We have got to be able to have somebody in the OSx86 community who can fix this. This problem seems like it is getting worse, yesterday was a disaster. If you still need help, please make it a front page item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Mash, check where the bottleneck is, first: CPU, RAM, HDD.CPU is checked with uptime (shows the load) RAM is checked with free (see the swap usage and free RAM without buffers) and with vmstat at swap in/swap on fields (if there is too much activity there, then it is a problem). Also, with vmstat you see context switches (too many processes/threads). HDD is checked with iostat and see iowait value and transactions per second. The bottleneck for the server when we had high load (front page digg etc.) was the 1GB RAM, we upgraded that. The problem is not a hardware problem, its a software problem. Only now the board is performing well. All day it was bad. My guess is sHARD came online and restarted apache. We have got to be able to have somebody in the OSx86 community who can fix this. This problem seems like it is getting worse, yesterday was a disaster. If you still need help, please make it a front page item. We're getting closer to a solution every day. Yesturday was very poor though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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