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mikithecrackhead · Mar 19, 2001, 11:25 PM

once a month is routine maintainence , but everyother day is b#^& sh!t what is goin on? how long is this gonna last?

fobside · Mar 20, 2001, 12:16 AM

sooooo slow.

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krove · Mar 20, 2001, 12:33 AM

I can't even access OS X General Discussion....just sits there, loading and loading...

What's up? I hope all of these issues are resolved soon, 'cause it is largely a pain in the ass just to read topics and reply...

krove

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Chuck_star · Mar 20, 2001, 01:05 AM

I think the server must be running off my old 486sx. Cause I'm having 80's flashbacks every time I click MacNN on my toolbar.

DV · Mar 20, 2001, 01:12 AM

I actually waited until the OS X-General Discussion finished loading (oh, about 5 minutes) and all it had was the banner at the top (time-out maybe). The slowness seems to be directly related to the size of the forum.

DV

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Scott_H · Mar 20, 2001, 01:15 AM

Maybe Misha shouldn't have closed the below thread

http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Foru...ML/001846.html

Cipher13 · Mar 20, 2001, 01:16 AM

Misha, jeez, I told you, use the AI server to download your porn!

Cipher13

gorefan68 · Mar 20, 2001, 01:17 AM

Kiss my ( | )

GAGAHhhahhaHA

0 Ca$h

EmAn · Mar 20, 2001, 06:27 AM

These boards seem to feel alot like AI lately.

Misha · Mar 20, 2001, 06:46 AM

At peak times UBB is reaching its max. of serving about 7,000 requests per minute. Those are the requests that are going through; thousands more are not. We have ordered new hardware to alleviate this problem and expect it to be installed and configured by the end of the week... please bear with us...

kaceygones · Mar 20, 2001, 09:27 AM

Don't worry, Misha. You can't please all of the people all of the time
and some of us aren't happy unless we're complaining.

Slow is much better than Down.
kacey

P.S. It would be nice, though,
if you mentioned that you moved
a thread when you close it...

cteselle · Mar 20, 2001, 11:43 PM

Originally posted by Misha:
At peak times UBB is reaching its max. of serving about 7,000 requests per minute. Those are the requests that are going through; thousands more are not. We have ordered new hardware to alleviate this problem and expect it to be installed and configured by the end of the week... please bear with us...

just curious, but what are the hardware specs of the forum server?

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coitus · Mar 31, 2001, 11:04 PM

I am just echoing the sentiment of others. Over the course of the past week things have slowed to a crawl and I routinely time-out on my DSL connection. It takes anywhere from 45-seconds to a couple of minutes to get the forums to load. I understand the increased traffic causing slow-downs but I've never had things crawl quite like this.

Has macnn.com really started getting that much more traffic over the course of the last year or what? Any word on the new hardware?

coitus

Cipher13 · Apr 1, 2001, 04:27 AM

It was slow even today, with 12 members - 10 guests, Jsnuff1, and myself.
12 people online and its pathetic...?

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