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Kevin · Aug 20, 2006, 10:01 PM

Been having a hard time posting anything at a decent speed. And the forums are kinda slow.

Did someone take a hamster off the wheel?

It's not Saturday night. Put the hamster back.

mkbhatia · Aug 20, 2006, 10:36 PM

Hmmm...we have scheduled a memory upgrade in the server in the next few days to address some of the issues. Pease let me know if you continue to see this. I have upped the numer of simultaenous connections and will be monitoring the servers. Please continue to post here if you see slowness or other issues.

m.

turtle777 · Aug 21, 2006, 08:10 AM

Yeah, it's still ging on. Maybe we should get the hampstor a scooter, instead of the crutches...

-t

Kevin · Aug 23, 2006, 12:34 PM

Getting these now

"The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

turtle777 · Aug 23, 2006, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Kevin

Getting these now

"The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

Yeah, had that, too.

MacNN back on the crawl...

-t

seanc · Aug 23, 2006, 03:02 PM

Indeed, i'm getting those messages and it's incredibly slow. Time to reboot perhaps?

mkbhatia · Aug 23, 2006, 03:24 PM

Yes, I am working on the issue. My apologies for the problems.

m.

EFFENDI · Aug 23, 2006, 03:37 PM

Very slow for me on a 6mbit cable connection.

mkbhatia · Aug 23, 2006, 03:41 PM

fixed. eaccelerator was not starting up properly. it should be now.

please post here if you see continued slowness.

m.

CharlesS · Aug 23, 2006, 04:29 PM

post post post!

Still getting the "The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

turtle777 · 05:01 PM

test test test

Edit: no problems

-t

mkbhatia · Aug 23, 2006, 05:34 PM

more testing...

Peter · Aug 23, 2006, 05:44 PM

working perfectly for me... Very very fast actually

seanc · Aug 23, 2006, 06:04 PM

Test...

Edit: MUCH better

Thanks.

turtle777 · Aug 29, 2006, 12:30 PM

I get the "Server is too busy..." error over and over.

Is the hampstor on lunch break ?

-t

residentEvil · Aug 29, 2006, 12:45 PM

i as well. heck of a time posting.

voodoo · Aug 29, 2006, 02:31 PM

Server too busy pages have been popping up all day.

V

seanc · Aug 29, 2006, 02:41 PM

Maybe the accelerators broken again.

Dakar · Aug 29, 2006, 11:22 PM

It really hit during lunch time (12 - 2 EST)

Dakar · Sep 6, 2006, 11:51 AM

Also getting "server is busy" when I hit the back button on my browser, but a quick reload always brings the page up -- never a 'server is busy' page.

seanc · Sep 6, 2006, 11:55 AM

And I just got 2 notifications to your 1 post.

Dakar · Sep 8, 2006, 09:22 AM

This is the earliest in the day I've seen a "Server is too busy" notification yet.

Maybe I missed it, but has something changed in the past month that we've started getting these? Increased traffic? Decreased bandwith?

seanc · Sep 8, 2006, 09:30 AM

vBeso got added and we're hosting the Delicious Monster forums.

Dakar · Sep 8, 2006, 09:40 AM

Ah, ok. So we are handling a bigger load.

Edit: Well, I guess/hope we won't be adding electronista/gamerscan sections to the forum then.

seanc · Sep 8, 2006, 09:49 AM

Hopefully mkbhatia is working on the server upgrades.

Dakar · Sep 8, 2006, 10:04 AM

I thank him in advance for his hard work. I very much appreciate these forums.

Everyone's hard work here allows me to avoid mine.

turtle777 · Sep 8, 2006, 10:34 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar

Everyone's hard work here allows me to avoid mine.

LOL, so true

-t

mkbhatia · Sep 8, 2006, 11:55 AM

We have just ordered a faster/more powerful server. In the meanwhile, we just installed a reverse proxy to help cache all static content. I think that helped alot, but we'llhave to see. Anybody still seeing issues? What times?

m.

turtle777 · Sep 8, 2006, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

Anybody still seeing issues? What times?

LOL, I just wanted to read this thread when you posted a reply.

I got the "Server busy" error about 10 times.

-t

mkbhatia · Sep 8, 2006, 12:04 PM

Yep, that's didn't work so well. Still troubleshooting this.

m.

mkbhatia · Sep 8, 2006, 01:21 PM

We increased the load meter (point at which the forums display a "Server busy" message) and have re-enabled squid, the reverse proxy for caching static content. I'd be interested in others' feedback on performance after these changes.

m.

rickey939 · Sep 8, 2006, 02:04 PM

Haven't seen it so far in the past 30 minutes...

seanc · Sep 8, 2006, 02:16 PM

I haven't seen it all day, but sometimes it'll be there constantly on other days.

imitchellg5 · Sep 8, 2006, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

We have just ordered a faster/more powerful server. In the meanwhile, we just installed a reverse proxy to help cache all static content. I think that helped alot, but we'llhave to see. Anybody still seeing issues? What times?

m.

Xeon Xserve!? It happens to me around 2-6PM, never early in the morning.

seanc · Sep 8, 2006, 03:18 PM

Ironically, MacNN doesn't use Macs to host the forums

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imitchellg5 · Sep 8, 2006, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by seanc

Ironically, MacNN doesn't use Macs to host the forums

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Really? That is suprising. Well if they use Windows Server than no wonder that we're having issues

Dakar · Sep 12, 2006, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

We increased the load meter (point at which the forums display a "Server busy" message) and have re-enabled squid, the reverse proxy for caching static content. I'd be interested in others' feedback on performance after these changes.

m.

MacNN held up beautifully during 'Showtime'

I rarely see the server busy message now.

seanc · Sep 12, 2006, 01:54 PM

I was getting the server busy message yesterday. Seems fine now.

Kevin · Sep 13, 2006, 04:10 PM

Got the "Server Busy" error about 8 times in the last 1/2 hour.

turtle777 · Sep 13, 2006, 11:14 PM

I got some today as well.

-t

mkbhatia · Sep 14, 2006, 03:35 PM

Please see my other thread regarding the new server, on which we spent almost $3K. I'm fairly sure that will handle anything we throw at it. We may also look into the squid proxy cache again, but that is what caused the login errors last weekend.

m.

Dakar · Oct 2, 2006, 10:28 AM

Saw my first server is busy message in weeks.

imitchellg5 · Oct 4, 2006, 07:57 PM

The Lounge has been ridiculously slow for me lately, but I haven't been getting any busy messages.

seanc · Oct 5, 2006, 02:02 AM

I've also been getting server busy messages a plenty. Have the new servers been put into action yet?

mkbhatia · 04:55 PM

The new server is now up and running. The forums have been moved over and setup, but not yet taken live. That will be done this weekend. Following a few days of testing on the new server, we will upgrade to v3.6.1.

Hopefully that will solve the the server busy messages.

m.

seanc · Oct 5, 2006, 04:13 PM

Yay. Thanks for all the work m. I appreciate it.

Dakar · Oct 5, 2006, 04:39 PM

*high five*

mkbhatia · Oct 6, 2006, 06:05 PM

Ok, the forum server just switched over. It will take a few hours (maybe a day) for things to propogate through DNS.

You can check if you are using the new server by doing a dns lookup on forums.macnn.com. If it points to .184 (and you have restarted your browser), you are probably using the new server. If you are still pointing to .181, then your DNS has not updated yet and you are using the old server.

Here is a sample (from the command line)

mkbhatia$ nslookup forums.macnn.com
Server: 4.2.2.2
Address: 4.2.2.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:
forums.macnn.com canonical name = sm.macnn.com.
Name: sm.macnn.com
Address: 207.58.150.184

This means I'm using the new server. Please let me know if you see any issue with the new server. We are officiially in testing for a few days (before the v3.6.1 upgrade).

m.

turtle777 · Oct 9, 2006, 03:15 PM

I haven't seen any speed increase. One of my posts took forever to go through.

Edit: this post took about 25 sec.
And yes, the new DNS has been propagated.

Dunno...

-t

Oisín · Oct 9, 2006, 03:28 PM

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).