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bstone · Sep 17, 2001, 01:27 PM

On both my Powerbook G3/400 and iMac DV 400 at work, the MacNN boards are SO slow. Slow enough to the point where I dread coming on the boards even tho I love to.

Can anyone give me any ideas on how I can speed them up? I don't recall them being this slow anymore.

Thanks!

cteselle · Sep 17, 2001, 03:08 PM

There is really nothing that *you* can do. The problem lies in the MacNN server and UBB6. Rumor has it, that MacNN is *working* on replacing/upgrading the server. Although this rumor has existed for several months now.

My only suggestion would be to use the forums after midnight, its pretty quick for me since there are less users at that time...

PBG4 User · Sep 17, 2001, 08:50 PM

This slowness issue is what keeps me a lurker. It takes 5-10 minutes to post a reply for me, and I know it isn't my computer or my internet connection.

I really hope they do fix it. I've visited many different forums, but none have near the volume of posts/posters that this site does. There is also a good signal/noise ratio here as well.

FormerLurker · Sep 18, 2001, 02:56 AM

...and at 3:45 AM EST, the Lounge has COMPLETELY crashed....

agentz · Sep 18, 2001, 06:48 AM

Its odd. I find that the performance of the fora varies greatly. For a while there when I was using it on my lowly wee iBook at home things would go like a dog. Even here at work on my *ahem* Dell with shedloads of bandwidth things go like a three legged cow on a skateboard.

But...

Today, things seem to by absolutely flying.

Maybe its not just these boards (yes, I know that there is an identifiable problem that is being looked into) that are the problem... has anyone else noticed a general slowdown when trying to access certain sites? We've been seeing reports of excess traffic generated by SirCam and the likes having an effect on things.

Indigo Boy · Sep 19, 2001, 12:36 PM

Phew... I was beginning to think it was just me and my setup (though I can load scads of other pages in the same time it takes me to load one of the MacNN Forum pages).

I love to peruse and use these boards, but the slowness is a bit of a bummer.

Scotttheking · Sep 19, 2001, 10:02 PM

It's not you guys.
It's the server.

bluedog · Sep 27, 2001, 05:22 PM

The boards have been SOOOO slow, and now with the corruption stuff. Can the site admins, replace this with another system? I've seen boards run well with the load we get here.

MacNN is my *primary* source of news and I'm feeling really frustrated by this slowness.

ae77 · Sep 28, 2001, 12:21 AM

Boards are very very slow here too.

zac4mac · Sep 28, 2001, 05:30 PM

I don't believe it. I finally got to the reply window.
It's now 4:30, been trying to post since before 2:00. Keep getting "page time-out" errors. It took a good 20 minutes to get to this post and the rest of the time to connect to the reply window. Still has 10 items(icons I think) to load.

Please, somebody fix this...

Scotttheking · Sep 28, 2001, 05:57 PM

It is being worked on.

gorgonzola · Sep 28, 2001, 06:04 PM

The last few days have been because we were hacked hardcore, so that is not really normal operation. Someone is fixing it now. Should be better for the weekend.

New server is scheduled to go online on Monday, if all goes well.

ac2c · Sep 29, 2001, 05:49 PM

We can only hope that what you say is true and we can look forward to a slightly more satisfying experience here on the board. Hopefully with the new server you will be installing some decent security where this won't happen again. (Well of course you are - no one would go back up with a new server without heacy security - as I look at a list of several thousand hacked servers in the news).

Matsu · Sep 29, 2001, 07:26 PM

Originally posted by gorgonzola:

New server is scheduled to go online on Monday, if all goes well.

Hey smelly cheese,

Surely you jest??? Haven't we been waiting for this server upgrade for a while now? Will you then, as was promised months ago, move AI onto the old MacNN server and 'Resume Publication'? Or is AI deader than MOSR.net?
That's a really strange ghost town of a site. I discovered it while looking around for alternatives to this sad place. Strange. It works, but it hasn't been updated for over a year, and the newest post is from April 2001. An interesting record of the anti-Meader origins.

fIX BLoOdY AI, oR dOn'T, WhATeVEr. It'll probably look like MOSR.NET soon if you ever get it back up.

Xeo · Sep 29, 2001, 10:51 PM

Originally posted by Matsu:
Strange. It works, but it hasn't been updated for over a year, and the newest post is from April 2001.

LOL. I love how you say "over a year" yet you clearly say it was updated in April which is 5 months ago. I do agree though, it's pretty dead. If they would just give someone ssh access I'm sure they'd be happy to run it. Hell, I'd do it if I had time.

Anyway, I thought I'd mention that I cannot, at all, access the forum thread listings, for any forum. I got here by clicking the link from the main page. I get "Document contains no data" errors.

I hope for the best on Monday.

Matsu · Sep 30, 2001, 02:57 AM

Originally posted by Xeo:
LOL. I love how you say "over a year" yet you clearly say it was updated in April which is 5 months ago.

yep, aren't there 5 months in a year???

I meant that the newest post in the forums is from April 2001. The board's main page itself hasn't been updated for over a year. Kinda like the old AI: where the boards were active but the news page wasn't. All moot now since neither part seems to be active.

OreoCookie · Sep 30, 2001, 04:13 AM

What server hardware is used for macnn?

philzilla · Sep 30, 2001, 09:24 AM

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
What server hardware is used for macnn?

sometimes, it feels like a ZX81...

vsurfer · Sep 30, 2001, 09:27 AM

MacNN is my preferred forum by far. Great bunch of contributors and great bunch of moderators. A lot of helpful and knowledgeable people.

But I was really beginning to wonder about my setup - how could my high bandwith connection be going Soooooo slow? Many times I just gave up on it and went elsewhere. But another infopop UBB forum I visited served up pages quite fast, so I figured there had to be a wee problem here.

Well, it's Sunday morning now (a light traffic time I'd guess), and things seem to be moving along a lot faster. It's good to be back.

iMacDV G3 400
320 MB RAM
Cable OS9.1 / OS X 10.0.4

Scotttheking · Sep 30, 2001, 01:44 PM

Originally posted by OreoCookie:
What server hardware is used for macnn?

It is currently a P2-350 with 256MB of ram.
It will soon (hopefully) be a Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz with 1GB of ram.

Running linux, of course.

OldManMac · Sep 30, 2001, 11:38 PM

The threads that most people would be interested in, OS X & OS X Usage and support, are impossible to get into. I've got a cable modem, and, after almost a minute of sending a request, I get a failure to connect message! I've just signed on to MacAddict.com, although their forums don't seem to be as nicely laid out as MacNN. Hopefully, this will be straightened out soon! If not, Aufwiedersehen!

OreoCookie · Oct 1, 2001, 10:06 AM

P2 350 -- that explains a lot, sounds like my machine in the office (K6-2 400). No wonder the forums slow down significantly when the load is high ...
What about MacOS X, is the hardware too expensive?

applenut1 · Oct 1, 2001, 11:16 PM

seems pretty good now but perhaps that's because no one is on.

did you change servers?

Scotttheking · Oct 2, 2001, 12:08 AM

Server isn't in yet.
The hack has been fixed, so it's faster.
Just hang in there.

dark3lf · Oct 2, 2001, 07:18 AM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:


It is currently a P2-350 with 256MB of ram.
It will soon (hopefully) be a Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz with 1GB of ram.

Running linux, of course.

Why not run Darwin or at least FreeBSD or better yet, QS 800 DP w/ 10.1?

bluedog · Oct 2, 2001, 07:48 AM

Originally posted by Scotttheking:


It is currently a P2-350 with 256MB of ram.
It will soon (hopefully) be a Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz with 1GB of ram.

Running linux, of course.

OMG!

Their running the boads on a P2!

That's about it then. Cya.