The story with the slowdown and its fix.

GoneShootin

GoneShootin wrote:

does for mods

It's not working for this mod then...

WizZard

It's working for me

It is for me now too but it definitely wasnt at 14:25 when I last posted in this thread.

Hagar

It's working for me as well. The cheque must have cleared.

Ruu_Old

Got a database error this morning, buzzing along fine now

lynchie

Got this just there while reading this thread!

Fatal error: Unable to connect to memcache server in /includes/class_datastore.php on line 247

Search seems to be back?

Esel

OK, now that 'Search' and 'New Posts' seem to be fixed at last, we deserve to be told what the problem actually was!

At last, Boards can be moved from Intensive Care to the High Dependency Unit. We almost flatlined there. I'm sure it will take a long time for the usage to get back to what it was before these problems originally materialised.

regi

I think as a non-subscriber, we owe you very little indeed.

Thank you for your 'encouraging' words, however.

Esel

Regi wrote:

I think as a non-subscriber, we owe you very little indeed.

Thank you for your 'encouraging' words, however.

Ouch! No real need for that, IMO. I said 'we' meaning the community. I feel I am a contributing member of the Boards community, notwithstanding the fact that I am not a subscriber. I made a lot of timing stats posts during the slowdown, more than must subscribers did. Ah well, nice to know where I stand.

regi

Sorry - its just a bit frustrating this.

We've not added a new server by the way - its really been Cloud and BoardTracker's wonderful assistance that have helped.

seamus

When the search does come back, performance seems to be much improved, although this may be because nobody has seen it come back.

Stephen

speaking of performance...

beaker: Page generated in 69.50579 seconds with 15 queries
loading the half-life board :eek:

Bugger.

pie appears to be quicker again.

secret_squirrel

Do I correctly surmise that BoardTracker is so"me kind of Search Outsourcing that is taking the search load away from the boards servers?

Their webpage seems aimed at the end user rather than a BB admin.

Would love a (slightly) technical explanation when you guys get a sec.

In the meantime Nice One!!


Little irony - a seach for boardtracker comes back with "No Results - Powered by Boardtracker" - lol

Stephen

After hours this morning:beaker: Page generated in 74.43528 seconds with 15 queries :eek:

I've noticed I only seem to get delays of this magnitude when loading forum pages, rather than threads.

WizZard

Boardtracker explains who Pidgin is (sort of). See here.

Faith

PI just now: beaker: Page generated in 67.73347 seconds with 15 queries

regi

It'll get really slow like that when someone does a horribly inefficient search. We're going to lock down the old search to just mods/smods/admins soon.

Tar.Aldarion

Forevers???

Hagar

Don't worry. I bought a big box of pencils and notebooks, we can share.

WizZard

Regi wrote:

It'll get really slow like that when someone does a horribly inefficient search.

Like searching for "that" or "when"?

oscarBravo

Regi wrote:

We're going to lock down the old search to just mods/smods/admins soon.

See that? That's power, that is.

Fight *this*, plebs!!

damien

I will offer my search services to anyone looking for a search. See my ad on adverts.ie

oscarBravo

Dude, you're undermining teh powah.

Victor

damien.m wrote:

I will offer my search services to anyone looking for a search. See my ad on adverts.ie

Is that a body cavity search?

regi

Maybe subscribers too

Ruu_Old

Hurrah for subscribers!

the_syco

Regi wrote:

Maybe subscribers too

Man.. thats [strike]discrimination[/strike] a great idea. May encourage more people to [strike]moan[/strike] give money to [strike]our beloved leader[/strike] a subsciption to [strike]your newletter[/strike] boards.ie

Agent Smith

i'm a Mod and a subscriber....

does that make my searching even faster?