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The story with the slowdown and its fix.

DeVore · 2006-05-14 14:49:45

Lo all, I´m writing this from Spain because I wanted to give you all an update on the slowdown and whats happening. Our best explanation of this problem is that on occasion, particularly at peak times, our servers are getting bottlenecked and then wait-state various threads (unix threads, not boards threads) pending…

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#62 18-05-2006 9:08pm
Cloud

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Oh yea, search enabled - get to it!

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#63 18-05-2006 9:14pm
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What this boardstracker, your opinion link?
mmm interesting

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#64 18-05-2006 9:30pm
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Hadn't heard of boardtracker. Damn, all those automated searches must use a lot of puter power. Is that anything to do with the problem? Or do we send their server a copy of every new post?

Anyroads, I've just searched for slowdown, to see if there were any threads giving more technical details about the speed issue. Nothing recent popped up, is that because the details are on the Admin/Mod side or was I just using the wrong keyword?

I don't know anything really about dbs, but I'd be interested to watch the discussion unfold about how this gets fixed. I might even learn something! Is there a breakdown of what type of requests are keeping the machines busy? Are they even maxed out?

Oh and since I don't really post that much, might as well take the opportunity to thank yis for all the hard work you put in. No doubt about what someone was saying above - slow boards is well good, way better than no boards!
muchos gracias.

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#65 18-05-2006 9:52pm
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zabbo wrote:

I think everyone uses the 'My Posts' feature which is a hacked search string(or something)

Everyone time i log on, a jump into 'my posts' its the only way I can remember what i was posting.

Spose if *everyone* done that, there'd be trouble.

Use Quick Links > Subscribed Threads instead. It does not make baby Boards cry!

Not your ornery onager

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#66 18-05-2006 10:04pm
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She's losing power, Cap'n!

2 minutes ago, cloud, no sigs

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054931678

beaker: Page generated in 35.99503 seconds with 10 queries

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=354

beaker: Page generated in 38.68612 seconds with 14 queries

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#67 18-05-2006 10:39pm
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Scotty, Im getting fluctuations in power, move to warp 3, What? We are.

Oh christ.

Cloud with sigs.
TCN
beaker: Page generated in 48.07002 seconds with 14 queries

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#68 18-05-2006 10:44pm
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Computers/Technology about 1 min ago

beaker: Page generated in 1.31188 seconds with 14 queries

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#69 18-05-2006 10:48pm
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I see BoardTracker is paying us a visit:)

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#70 18-05-2006 10:50pm
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Gardening/DIY

beaker: Page generated in 56.23682 seconds with 14 queries

Thats via www.boards btw.

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#71 18-05-2006 10:59pm
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Im on the www.boards.ie also, flying along for me

a few mins ago at Online Buying/Auctions.

beaker: Page generated in 0.89102 seconds with 14 queries

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#72 18-05-2006 11:32pm
Esel

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For the past ten minutes, Boards has been slower than a 15 year old obese Labrador with severe arthritis - and that's being kind.

'Search' and 'New Posts' must die! :mad:

Not your ornery onager

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#73 18-05-2006 11:33pm
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LOL - For the hell of it, I decided to do loads of searching by stalking newbies. Came accross this wonderfully sneaky spammer. Posted several times in the test forum so that no-one would notice, and it would improve his sites google rank

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#74 18-05-2006 11:36pm
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Pretty lousy tonight alright

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#75 19-05-2006 12:13am
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Fine on 56k. Faster than my bband...odd.

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#76 19-05-2006 10:15am
Cloud

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Search disabled again. Thanks for the testing, there was a noticeable increase in load on our graphs, which I hope to post after more testing...

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#77 19-05-2006 12:00pm
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One or two minutes ago. Worked on Refresh.

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054933726

There seems to have been a problem with the boards.ie database.
Please try again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.

Not your ornery onager

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#78 19-05-2006 12:05pm
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I'm getting the same, and refresh brings up the "invalid thread" message.

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#79 19-05-2006 4:02pm
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Was boards down for the last four hours?

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#80 19-05-2006 4:03pm
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Yes.

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#81 19-05-2006 4:17pm
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Life complete again.

Mike.

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#82 19-05-2006 4:30pm
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ffs lads, could you not have left it down for another two hours or so? i was actually getting study done for this damn exam!

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#83 19-05-2006 4:56pm
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Just wondering if you guys have ever load tested boards to try and identify some of the bottlenecks. Jmeter http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/ is a great open source tool for this purpose.

Without knowing the particulars of your system setup I'd say that three servers (if your spending 3500 on them) is plenty for a high performance web application. I don't think adding another server would solve the problems.

Does boards cache the HTML of the most popular threads?

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#84 19-05-2006 5:09pm
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Eek:eek: No searches Won't be posting as much

Ah well, good luck with the baby, Cloud. Have a happy (miserable?) few months of sleepless nights.

Regi, if I see ye in the pub, I'll kick you. Pass your exams, and back to the [strike]cage[/strike] lab to fix boards.ie:p

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#85 19-05-2006 5:21pm
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Those sleepless nights will be just right for tinkering with the new server.

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#86 19-05-2006 5:33pm
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Thats no way to refer to clouds babeh - just remember cloud the kid won't grow out of the crying stage just by adding more ram

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#87 19-05-2006 6:21pm
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kippy wrote:

I noticed a definite improvement up until about 15:00 today and it appeared to deteriorate again....

Traffic expands to occupy available road space.

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#88 20-05-2006 2:00am
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I was just wondering ... 3500 for a server or 7 x €500 basic dells. which would I choose?

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#89 20-05-2006 2:23am
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Server

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#90 20-05-2006 1:21pm
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I believe he's named the child Mini-Cloud. Disturbing.

DeV.

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#91 20-05-2006 2:06pm
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Baby Nimbus. Good luck and congrats to the Cloud family!

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