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Looks like the site speed has been suffering for the last fifteen minutes........that or someone has spammed it.
Mike Bobbitt said:I'd like to think it's 'having problems again' and not 'still'.
The good news: I've learned one "don't do that" process... guaranteed to make the site slow. So, I won't do that.
neko said:Weird, three times in the past couple of days the site has done this when I've tried to post.
neko said:Weird, three times in the past couple of days the site has done this when I've tried to post.
Trinity said:Then stop posting.. and the site won't go down ;D
Mike Bobbitt said:I can explain that... Many of the slowdowns occur when we max out our memory. This causes some database write actions to be locked or stalled while they wait for some memory to free up. When you're browsing around you're not engaging the database in (many) write functions. When you post, you're attempting to update several tables that a lot of people are accessing... these are the ones that are frequently locked when we run out of memory, and so your request gets added to the "locked" queue and you have to wait until things sort themselves out. Meanwhile, other users may be browsing around without noticing much difference.
Then, other times, it's just slow for everyone.
Mike Bobbitt said:I can explain that... Many of the slowdowns occur when we max out our memory. This causes some database write actions to be locked or stalled while they wait for some memory to free up. When you're browsing around you're not engaging the database in (many) write functions. When you post, you're attempting to update several tables that a lot of people are accessing... these are the ones that are frequently locked when we run out of memory, and so your request gets added to the "locked" queue and you have to wait until things sort themselves out. Meanwhile, other users may be browsing around without noticing much difference.
Then, other times, it's just slow for everyone.
That's it! We need more subscriber's It was so bad at once when I tried while at school, I thought the internet was gone.Mike Bobbitt said:Unfortunately not, it's a hard stop, we just run out of memory and the server is already maxed out, we can't add any more.