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    #62
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    i think boards servers are just not good enough for the ammount of members there are here.

    i tried opening the attachment in this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054896892

    and it took a good 30 seconds just to load half the pic then i closed it :mad:


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    #63
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users Posts: 6,852 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    It's really gone to fcuk the last couple of days :(

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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    #64
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    its pretty quick now, i know another board running the exact same software and it runs about 10x quicker than here. Hope this can get sorted


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    #65
    Gazza22
    Registered Users Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    Yeah i'm finding it a bit slower lately though not by a huge means...

    Seems to take it's time loading when i first log onto Boards


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    #66
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Commander Vimes wrote:
    i used adblock on firefox to get rid of start-adserver because i got sick of spending an hour a day looking at firefox saying "waiting for star-adserver".

    didn't actually solve the problem though. it still goes slow randomly, then suddenly comes back as if its been pushed through. got that database error just now

    Same here.
    It was sluggish all evening and at times taking 40 seconds or more to load a page.
    More or less normal speed now.

    Wish it would stay like it is now,it drives ya mad when its slow its like having 56k all over again :(


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    #67
    Asok
    Registered Users Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    Well if any of ye fancy donating a few 2850's I'll forward ye on the shipping address.


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    #68
    irishboy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭irishboy21


    Asok wrote:
    Well if any of ye fancy donating a few 2850's I'll forward ye on the shipping address.

    Why doesn't the Admins prune users via the ACP ? Looking at the Members List there are 500+ PAGES of members with no posts and it's 30 members per page 30 x 500 = 15000 :eek:.

    Boards needs a clean up. May start with "Has not logged on for x days".

    x could be 365.

    My 2 cents, keep the change.


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    #69
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    irishboy21 wrote:
    Why doesn't the Admins prune users via the ACP ? Looking at the Members List there are 500+ PAGES of members with no posts and it's 30 members per page 30 x 500 = 15000 :eek:.

    Boards needs a clean up. May start with "Has not logged on for x days".

    x could be 365.

    My 2 cents, keep the change.

    Wouldn't really make a huge difference, to be honest.


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    #70
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    Asok wrote:
    Well if any of ye fancy donating a few 2850's I'll forward ye on the shipping address.

    I would buy a sub if i knew it would make a difference :)


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    #71
    Endurance Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭Endurance Man


    When it starts slowing down go check how many users are browsing ;), iv been checking this all week and every time iv found 1000+ users, i think this may be the cause, just to many people. Boards is a victim of it own popularity :).


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    #72
    Asok
    Registered Users Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    Fighting Irish wrote:
    I would buy a sub if i knew it would make a difference :)

    One way to find out!


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    #73
    Asok
    Registered Users Posts: 6,628 ✭✭✭Asok


    Btw Kileoin banned from feedback,

    Just because you delete a post doesnt mean I can't see it :)


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    #74
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Does he not know about the email notification to subscribed threads? :D
    Ah well, live and learn...


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    #75
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,122 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    I've never had much boards problems on Eircom broadband, but now on Smart BB, and timeouts are quite common. It's strange that it doesn't seemingly affect everyone simultaneously.

    More often than not, it's replying I've issues with, with Opera reporting a newreply.php error. Other times, I can get the thread pages, but clicking a thread can lead to a blank page with "Done" at the bottom, or a server error screen.

    Oddly, after 11pm or so, it seems to be grand, I suppose it's the number of users logged in.

    Would the likes of disabling avatars or something lessen the load?


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    #76
    regi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,279 ✭✭✭regi


    Might be time to look at overall growth and load. Shame, was hoping we'd be OK for a while longer, but its still growing.

    I'll have a good poke at it this weekend.


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    #77
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    i find that i keep timing out at 3am, whenever i'm still up at that hour, or the page will take about 5 minutes to load.


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    #78
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    thats the 3am backup


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    #79
    Sparky
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Regi wrote:
    Might be time to look at overall growth and load. Shame, was hoping we'd be OK for a while longer, but its still growing.

    I'll have a good poke at it this weekend.

    We need servers the size of googles :D


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    #80
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    Sparky-s wrote:
    We need servers the size of googles :D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform

    * 719 racks
    * 63,272 machines
    * 126,544 CPUs
    * 253 THz of processing power
    * 126,544 GB (approx. 123.58 TB) of RAM
    * 5,062 TB (approx. 4.77 PB) of hard drive space
    :eek:


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    #81
    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    tish i have a better set-up as a back up machine at home, i swear


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    #82
    irishboy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 128 ✭✭irishboy21


    agent smith wrote:
    thats the 3am backup
    How is that run, ie how is it set to 3am all the time? I have a vB forum and would like to have this feature. ;)


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    #83
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    irishboy21 wrote:
    How is that run, ie how is it set to 3am all the time? I have a vB forum and would like to have this feature. ;)

    I'd guess a cron job which takes apache down and does the backup, though you could do it by changing a symlink pointing to the website to a page saying "Please hold..." either, if you liked.


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    #84
    maxheadroom
    Registered Users Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭maxheadroom


    FYI - I was timing out trying to connect to www.boards.ie, muppet.boards.ie and pie.boards.ie. wang.boards.ie was working fine.

    Firefox gives me this error for the other addresses:
    The connection was reset
    The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

    Now they're all back to normal.


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    #85
    TempestSabre
    Registered Users Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    Overall its slow for me aswell. Probably for the last 2-3 weeks. Seems random though. One post fine. The next slow.


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    #86
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    can be really bad. took over a minute to load the Satellite board tonight


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    #87
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Response time at the moment is like wading through treacle wearing flippers. :eek:

    Not your ornery onager



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    #88
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Just got this error:

    vBulletin datastore error caused by one or more of the following:
    1. You may have uploaded vBulletin 3.5 files without also running the vBulletin 3.5 upgrade script. If you have not run the upgrade script, do so now.
    2. The datastore cache may have been corrupted. Run Rebuild Bitfields from tools.php, which you can upload from the do_not_upload folder of the vBulletin package.

    Fatal error: vBulletin datastore cache incomplete or corrupt in /includes/init.php on line 185

    Not your ornery onager



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    #89
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Regi has been sick for the last few days (Ohhhh NOES!). He's going to look into this this weekend he says.

    We may just need another server but I don't want to blow the cash if we dont and its NOT going to fix the problem. Its not like we have wads of cash to throw at servers for no reason...

    DeV.


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    #90
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    time for another boards fund raiser!


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    #91
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    If you really want money accept subscriptions by a method other than Paypal.
    I would subscribe this minute but I refuse to get involved with Paypal.
    Seriously. Boards is great value for money.

    /Edit How hard is it to take Visa?


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