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Server busy messages and garbled responses

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  • 24-01-2010 10:18pm
    #1
    cian1500ww
    Registered Users Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭


    Gotten the server too busy message about 4 times in the past 10 minutes. Twice when opening a post and twice when trying to vote in a poll. Small problem perhaps ?? Thought I'd mention it anyway :)

    EDIT: Got it again trying to post this :(


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    #2
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    I'm getting it too.


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    #3
    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,582 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    Just got a few server busy messages and a garbled text page instead of the homepage.

    32a2c.jpg


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    #4
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    I got the same thing.


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    #5
    Jay P
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    I just got something like that too. Just a bunch of random symbols.


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    #6
    Pablod
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭Pablod


    same here, page full of various text and html characters and stuff?


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    rebel girl 15
    Registered Users, Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 15,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    I kept getting server busy messages, and topics took ages to load for a while!


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    #8
    D2D
    Registered Users Posts: 8,391 ✭✭✭D2D


    Twice in the past 2 mins.


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    #9
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    I got a few " Server Too Busy " and " BaconZombie, you do not have permission to access this page. " errors and then the following:

    6y7S9.png


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    Simply Red
    Registered Users Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭Simply Red


    Yep same here, server busy messages too


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    #11
    Darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Darragh


    Thanks folks, appreciate you letting us know. We're looking into that one now.


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    #12
    Trinity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,662 ✭✭✭Trinity


    Me too.


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    #13
    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.

    vBulletin has a feature where it will stop people doing stuff (with a server busy message) if the load on the webserver goes past a certain point. This feature didn't work in the past, but we never turned it off. Part of the process of getting the site back up and running on Friday involved upgrading vBulletin and that resuscitated the feature*.

    Now, the garbled output you saw was almost certainly from stuff we wrote (like the front page) which doesn't expect the other parts of vBulletin to crap out. The output you saw was gzipped HTML or part of it at least.

    * For the nerds: It changed 'if (PHP_OS == 'Linux') { ... }' to 'if (!$iswindows) { ... }'. We run FreeBSD so...


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    rebel girl 15
    Registered Users, Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 15,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭rebel girl 15


    Dare_2_defy wrote: »
    According to their Twitter, it seems it was a vBulletin feature kicking in for the 1st time

    http://twitter.com/boards_ie/status/8164090413

    the link comes back to this thread:confused:

    Understand now that I see Conors post!


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    #15
    Spiritoftheseventies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭Spiritoftheseventies


    yeah happened here too


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    #16
    Sparky
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


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