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[Clarity]

Well, I just had them look inside the case, and it appears 2 of the 3 hamsters that turn the server wheel had died. I'm shutting down the forum for a second now while we oil the wheel, get a couple more rodents, and get it all rolling again.

[bkochmc]

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Nice job getting those hamsters pulling their weight again.

[Clarity]

We should be good for a while now.

We got new Florida hamsters. They are SO fast...

I am going to be doing some backend work around the site, so if you get little hiccups around here between now and, say, 3pm ET, it's probably me. (Like that 3+ minute one just a moment ago.)

[Taosman]

Thanks, "C"!
Much better, now!

[Clarity]

As of a quarter to 4, I'm still working around the site. Slow load times here and there over the last hour are my doing, but I'm about to stop for the day.

[Thump]

Originally Posted by Clarity

As of a quarter to 4, I'm still working around the site. Slow load times here and there over the last hour are my doing, but I'm about to stop for the day.

Noticed that.

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[Clarity]

All done. Should be a bit faster.

We either need to stop telling people about BP, or I need to start thinking about putting the database on a dedicated machine.

[MililaniBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Clarity

We either need to stop telling people about BP, or I need to start thinking about putting the database on a dedicated machine.

We are less than 100 members from 10,000...it'll probably get much busier as we approach the NC game and then NLOID...

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[GoBucks89]

Seems to load slowly when I'm posting, but if I'm just viewing threads it's not too bad. I counted 11 seconds from the time I hit "reply" until I was actually able to start writing. I'm writing this from work and so bandwidth should not be a problem.

[Taosman]

We need to start applying the $79.95 fee!
That will speed things up!

[Clarity]

I'm collecting data that Jelsoft has asked for. It's purely a server issue, and I've already been told we're right about at the point where web needs to be on one box, and the mysql database handling on another. Which feels a bit like one of those road construction scenarios, where, by the time they're done widening, it needs to be widened again.

My goal right now is to maximize production of what we have. There's no good reason why we should have 20+ second wait times at moments when there are 500-600 users on at once.

This may well mean a downgrade or removal of some services. Full-text boolean searching for example. Across a 1.7gb database, if 10-12 users are doing complex searches at once, it's a database spike. Searching is already off for unregistered users, so I may simply have to undermine our search handling a bit to offset the impact on the server.

We're also being hurt a bit by the fact that our old machine (hopkins.buckeyeplanet.com/bryants.net) is dying. The power supply is failing, and that server was handling some of the heavier image requesting, which means those tasks are falling back to labounty.

Anyway, it's something I'm actively working on. I should be turning data over to Jelsoft tomorrow or Thursday at the latest, which means I hope to have solutions in place by Thursday or Friday.

I believe those solutions will resolve the worst of the delays during peak load times (mid-day), but understand that with more users (and a metric [censored] ton of more unregistered browsers/lurkers/readers) the baseline for this situation is going to continue to get worse, even if the worst of it should get much better in the short term.

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Was the site inaccessible to you guys just a few minutes ago?

[Thump]

Still getting loading hiccups.