Forum sluggishness?

[Steve]

Is anyone experiencing abrupt shuggishness or periods of time where the forum just hangs?

I'm experiencing such episodes which last 5-10 minutes at seemingly random times throughout the day.

I want to report the problem and need to know if anyone else is experiencing the hanging.

[Black Irish]

Definitely Steve. I thought it was something on my end so I ignored it. It's been going on for a couple of weeks now  .

[kingcrabber]

noticed that also.....thought it had to do with the computers here from the state of PA...are system is constantly slow

[HenPot]

We have had the same thing here too, like BI, we thought it was on our end.

[Steve]

I don't think it's anything on your end... the regular (non-forum) website responds very quickly even when the forum appears hung. So far I think I've isolated the problem down to the MySQL daemon on the server hosting the site since ANY page that performs a MySQL query is hanging (this includes the Crab News page on the main menu which is MySQL driven).

Sooooooo.... I'm trying to get my hosting provider to troubleshoot the problem. The sad thing is that by the time they get my trouble call, the problem has cleared up. Then I get some lame message back saying "we don't see it hanging". Duh!

[HenPot]

I don't think it's anything on your end... the regular (non-forum) website responds very quickly even when the forum appears hung. So far I think I've isolated the problem down to the MySQL daemon on the server hosting the site since ANY page that performs a MySQL query is hanging (this includes the Crab News page on the main menu which is MySQL driven).

Sooooooo.... I'm trying to get my hosting provider to troubleshoot the problem. The sad thing is that by the time they get my trouble call, the problem has cleared up. Then I get some lame message back saying "we don't see it hanging". Duh!

Yeah, I think Jack was just about to say that!

[jack1747]

Steve, the problem that you discribed first started happening on th 25th of Oct.  I had just installed a Microsoft update to XP and had moved to a dial up.  I thought the problem was on my side.  One thing I have noticed, (might not be fact), is that the bug shows up when I am posting a reply and someone else is posting at the same time..  Cant prove that tho...  

[jack1747]

Lost connection to MySQL server during query
File: /home/zinskine/public_html/bluecrab/yabbse/Sources/Post.php
Line: 58


Just got this error msg while posting in the "for sale" area.

[long green crabber]

ditto

[CRABGUY]

I THOUGHT IT WAS MY DIAL UP
I'LL TRY TO GO TO A DIFF. THREAD AND WOULD NEVER GET THERE
TRAFFIC WOULD STOP
AND BACK DID NOT HELP

[jack1747]

In hind site its only the bca window that hangs.  Can't believe I missed that.....

[kingcrabber]

same here Russ..then when I'd git back on,all kinds of big black borders would accompany the posts..... :-\really weird  

[jack1747]

same here Russ..then when I'd git back on,all kinds of big black borders would accompany the posts..... :-\really weird  

this time i really mean HUH What?   Nothing here like that...

[kingcrabber]

In hind site its only the bca window that hangs.  Can belive I miss that.....

don't worry about it Sir J.... ...we understand.... ...that was a HUGE bucket Da Boss emptied that day

[jack1747]

In hind site its only the bca window that hangs.  Can belive I miss that.....

don't worry about it Sir J.... ...we understand.... ...that was a HUGE bucket Da Boss emptied that day

Nitwit!  

I really like that word but da boss got mad today when I called her that in the Home Depot

[Steve]

Ok, thanks guys, that information helps a lot!

The next time the forum "hangs" on you for a 30 seconds or more, please jot down the date and the time and the approximate length of the episode. Also, if you get any error message from the forum, like the one Jack posted, please cut-and-paste that error to me so I can report it.

I hate not being in control of the server... trying to get the techs to troubleshoot this problem is like pulling teeth.  

Again, I appreciate the help!!

[kingcrabber]

same here Russ..then when I'd git back on,all kinds of big black borders would accompany the posts..... :-\really weird  

this time i really mean HUH What?   Nothing here like that...

yea Sir j..when the forum finally came back up,there were black borders surrounding all the menu items ...almost like someone had a border device and was coloring black borders around everything ...surreal..thought my computers both at home and at work were goin goofy..then I thought maybe it was you and Da Master tryin to get the new software on line ..I'll admit,all I know is how to turn these things on,and type with 4 FINGERS

[Joe Crabs]

Thought my wife screwed up a setting.

[Crabpop]

I just gave my monitor a couple of shots of WD-40 through the vent openings in the back and it seems to be working better now. That WD-40 stuff is amaz

[CRABGUY]

HAD A PROBLEM LOGGING ON THIS AM 6:52
TYPED NAME AND PASSWORD, LOGINSCREEN CAME UP USER NAME WAS 16
GOT A MESSAGE TO REPORT IT TO THE ADMINISTRATOR
IF IT HAPPEND AGAIN

[jack1747]

just clicked on a new members profile.  Got this back, html page code.   sent u a personnal email.

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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 23:28:03 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/0.3 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/4.3.8 mod_ssl/2.8.19 OpenSSL/0.9.7c
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.8
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=d457b4f51a8aacff28dd9f0a61464974; path=/
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Last-Modified: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 23:28:03 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

[kingcrabber]

yep Sir j.....system locked me out for about 5-6 min not long ago (don't know if "locked" is the right term,sorry )

[jack1747]

At the bottom of the main page,  new member billyp...  all i did was click on "latest member" Billyp.

[Steve]

I changed a setting just now, let's see if that helps.

The forum has over 29,000 posts.    Each time a search engine spiders the forum, it has to plow through all those posts which really puts a burden on the server. So, I essentially told search engines not to index the forum. We'll see if that resolves the problem.

[kingcrabber]

I changed a setting just now, let's see if that helps.

The forum has over 29,000 posts.    Each time a search engine spiders the forum, it has to plow through all those posts which really puts a burden on the server. So, I essentially told search engines not to index the forum. We'll see if that resolves the problem.

SEE..thats da problem...Sir Jack can't be postin as much ..keep yer yapper shut,Sir j ....and Da King don't like spiders,black widows,brown,or engine spiders ..so tell them to take a hike