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mkbhatia · Oct 9, 2006, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

Yup, same here—slower than ever.

It now (almost) invariably takes between 15 and 30 seconds to connect to forums.macnn.com, and then it has to load (which is about the same as before).

Is this the case for others? There may be a config issue, but Im trying to sort that out.

m.

imitchellg5 · Oct 9, 2006, 03:43 PM

This has been happening for me. It is very slow right now. Your new servers seem like a downgrade so far.

mkbhatia · 04:28 PM

Ok, I made some more tweaks (including fixing registration). Please let me know if you still see performance issues.

m.

Update: the server may be *too* fast and we had forgot to adjust the MYSQL parameters to allow for tons of extra connections, I have increased the number of available simultaneous connects on gg by about 50 percent. Let's hope the problem was that simple.

rickey939 · Oct 9, 2006, 04:30 PM

I haven't seen the slowness for the last 20 minutes or so, that is a good sign.

mkbhatia · Oct 9, 2006, 04:35 PM

Me neither. Thanks Rickey. Next problem: encoding. If this is all good for the next day. We'll do that update (v3.6.2) on Thurs/Friday. The more feedback the better!

turtle777 · Oct 9, 2006, 04:53 PM

Posting still takes 20 sec. Not everytime, but I just had it again.

-t

mkbhatia · Oct 9, 2006, 05:01 PM

Is that reqular post or quickly reply?

Just experienced the delay. Not sure what it is. Must be some sort of configuration. Still looking.

m.

mkbhatia · Oct 9, 2006, 05:03 PM

testing quick reply

rickey939 · Oct 9, 2006, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

Me neither. Thanks Rickey. Next problem: encoding. If this is all good for the next day. We'll do that update (v3.6.2) on Thurs/Friday. The more feedback the better!

Will the default templates need to be changed to take advantage of any new features in v3.6.2 from what we have now?

rickey939 · Oct 9, 2006, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Posting still takes 20 sec. Not everytime, but I just had it again.

-t

I just had the delay using Quick Reply...

turtle777 · Oct 9, 2006, 05:08 PM

Quick reply is slow.

Also pulling up new posts. Takes up to 20 sec.

-t

mkbhatia · Oct 9, 2006, 05:23 PM

yeah, sometimes it seems slow, sometimes fast. not sure if it's related to the new server or someting else (all signs point to the new server).

m.

mkbhatia · Oct 9, 2006, 05:34 PM

Ok, upgraded our mysql server (may have been an interaction with the latest version of apache 2 we installed on the new server)....still working..

turtle777 · Oct 9, 2006, 05:42 PM

Feels like the one-legged hampstor again.

I thought we gave him the pink slip

-t

mkbhatia · Oct 9, 2006, 05:49 PM

ok, testing without persistent connections.

m.

brassplayersrock² · Oct 9, 2006, 05:50 PM

it took about 30 seconds for the forums to load just now, last night it was really fast

Rumor · Oct 9, 2006, 06:13 PM

Could it have something to do with light vs heavy traffic?

mkbhatia · 06:27 PM

Well the new server allowed many, many more connections to the db. I had previously allowed persistent connections, but have disabled them now. I am hoping that this does the trick. I haven't seen the slowness, but again, all reports are encouraged!

m.

 · Oct 9, 2006, 08:52 PM

Seems pretty fast right now. I couldn't even get on this morning it was so slow.

mkbhatia · Oct 9, 2006, 09:36 PM

Cool, i think that may have done the trick. Please report slowness. If no reports, then we can move to the upgrade later this week!

m.

rickey939 · Oct 10, 2006, 09:20 AM

I'm not getting any more slowness so far today...w00t!

Dakar · Oct 10, 2006, 12:07 PM

It's been sporadically slow for me.

More curious is I've gotten the first technical error email has been sent staff posts in a loooong time.

mkbhatia · Oct 10, 2006, 12:40 PM

The database server was offline for about 2-3 min for repair of a database. Not sure if that contributed to the error.

Curious, though, on the slowness. Time? Task?

m.

rickey939 · Oct 10, 2006, 02:59 PM

Still good here.

mkbhatia · Oct 10, 2006, 04:10 PM

Ok, I'll wait for another day before upgrading to the new v3.6.1. Please post performance issues, if any.

m.

rickey939 · Oct 10, 2006, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

Ok, I'll wait for another day before upgrading to the new v3.6.2. Please post performance issues, if any.

m.

Fixed.

turtle777 · Oct 10, 2006, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by rickey939

Fixed.

Why not wait for v9.3.9, while we're at it ?

-t

rickey939 · Oct 10, 2006, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Why not wait for v9.3.9, while we're at it ?

-t

v7.7.7 would be killer turtle cool.

imitchellg5 · Oct 11, 2006, 03:41 PM

It has been very fast right now, even with 17 webpages open. Yay!

mkbhatia · 05:18 PM

Thanks, I Have asked Demo/Tooki when we can coordinate the upgrade as it requires some template upgrades.

vBulletin 3.6.2 Released - vBulletin Community Forum

waiting on the reply.

Update: Got the thumbs-up from Demonhood, so we're going to upgrade today/tomorrow.

m.

turtle777 · Oct 11, 2006, 04:31 PM

Does that mean the new template is coming ?

The end of the world is nigh !

-t

turtle777 · Oct 11, 2006, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by rickey939

v7.7.7 would be killer turtle cool.

Seconded.

-t

rickey939 · Oct 11, 2006, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Does that mean the new template is coming ?

The end of the world is nigh !

-t

No, the template is being changed slightly...not the skin.

mkbhatia · Oct 11, 2006, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by what_the_heck

Does that mean the new template is coming ?

The end of the world is nigh !

-t

Just the updated v3.6.2 with new features for now. Frank is MIA.

m.

rickey939 · Oct 11, 2006, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

Just the updated v3.6.2 with new features for now. Frank is MIA.

m.

Poor Frank, not sure if we'll ever see it completed. Damn.

As for the update, it's happening tonight?

mkbhatia · Oct 11, 2006, 06:20 PM

As soon as pete and I can coordinate our schedules!!

m.

rickey939 · Oct 11, 2006, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

As soon as pete and I can coordinate our schedules!!

m.

And have you had a chance to look into the encoding issues?

rickey939 · Oct 13, 2006, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

As soon as pete and I can coordinate our schedules!!

m.

Is this happening this weekend?

mkbhatia · 03:48 AM

Just finished hte upgrade. Demon has already updated many of the (important) templates. I will post more about the update in the morning. We've been working on this for about 6 hours now and I'm tired.

m.

ps i will now turn my energies later this week to track down the Safari encoding issue. But please, no questions before this weekend =)