Is The Board Slower?

[Kathianne]

for anyone else? All my other sites are loading normally.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

for anyone else? All my other sites are loading normally.

Yes, its much slower for me too.
And I am on a new laptop and not my old dinosaur comp that bit the bullet last week.. --Tyr

[NightTrain]

Working fine from here.

You guys are just having sunspots down there.

[tailfins]

Yes, its much slower for me too.
And I am on a new laptop and not my old dinosaur comp that bit the bullet last week.. --Tyr

That's because everything you touch turns to crap.

[Kathianne]

Working fine from here.

You guys are just having sunspots down there.

Well I don't know the technical stuff, just that it's getting slower and even slower since I first posted. Can't access 'thanks' at all, though was able to a couple hours ago.

[jimnyc]

Working on it and looking into it, you know that!!

They reported a kernel issue... server issue yesterday, and of course said it was fixed. The site continued to be slow after that, although back to normal for some periods. I've been in contact with the host of course, initially to get them to get us back online. But I've seen the slowness as well, and it drives me nuts. I've kept the ticket open. Coincidentally I had just updated it once again just a few minutes ago, letting them know that things are continuing to bog down for all of us. Hopefully I'll get a response sooner than later, and hopefully it's something they can fix easily.

What I'm more nervous about is if this ultimately leads to a server move/update. Often they will do a rebuild and then restore from backups. My experience is that they take forever and can be nightmares. But this is me just jumping to conclusions at this point.

This is what they are saying happened yesterday:

A kernel panic (sometimes abbreviated as KP^[1]) is an action taken by an operating system upon detecting an internal fatal error from which it cannot safely recover. The term is largely specific to Unix and Unix-like systems; for Microsoft Windows operating systems the equivalent term is "stop error" (or, colloquially, "Blue Screen of Death").
The kernel routines that handle panics, known as <code>panic()</code> in AT&T-derived and BSD Unix source code, are generally designed to output an error message to the console, dump an image of kernel memory to disk for post-mortem debugging and then either wait for the system to be manually rebooted, or initiate an automatic reboot.^[2] The information provided is of a highly technical nature and aims to assist a system administrator or software developer in diagnosing the problem. Kernel panics can also be caused by errors originating outside of kernel space. For example, many Unix OSes panic if the init process, which runs in userspace, terminates.

[jimnyc]

Can't access 'thanks' at all, though was a couple hours ago.

Now that one is a different problem entirely which I've been looking into as well. Just clicking on the notifications when getting thanks takes forever and a day. That existed prior to this.

[NightTrain]

Now that one is a different problem entirely which I've been looking into as well. Just clicking on the notifications when getting thanks takes forever and a day. That existed prior to this.

Lag of about 1 second for a 'Thanks' to process. A little slower than normal, but nothing out of line for me.

I would guess East Coast internet weather, but since Kathi is in AZ, that doesn't make sense.

[jimnyc]

Lag of about 1 second for a 'Thanks' to process. A little slower than normal, but nothing out of line for me.

I would guess East Coast internet weather, but since Kathi is in AZ, that doesn't make sense.

Had some thanks when I first logged in earlier, took about 30-40 seconds to load when I clicked on the notifications.

Just had some more now, and after waiting about the same time again, it came back with a MYSQL error and wouldn't even load.

[NightTrain]

Had some thanks when I first logged in earlier, took about 30-40 seconds to load when I clicked on the notifications.

Just had some more now, and after waiting about the same time again, it came back with a MYSQL error and wouldn't even load.

Now it's starting to bog down... had a 20 second wait to pull up this thread.

The server isn't going to hold for much longer, Captain!

[Kathianne]

Now it's starting to bog down... had a 20 second wait to pull up this thread.

The server isn't going to hold for much longer, Captain!

That was my fear, sort of a repeat of what happened yesterday, which is why I posted in Announcements, figuring someone able would see it faster.

[jimnyc]

I "may" have made some advances with the "thanks" and the notifications &/or clicking on "recent thanks"

For me, it would take anywhere from 10-15 seconds in my dreams, and up to 40-60 seconds as it was doing earlier. Now it seems MUCH faster, for me at least.

Was anyone else seeing slowness with the thanks? And if so, can you try again? Only took me like 2 months to figure that one out, so I hope it's fixed anyway!

[jimnyc]

The running ticket from yesterday is still running! I have it updated from everything this morning and hopefully someone will be on it soon. It was upgraded yesterday from regular support to management. So I hope it's not stuck in a queue not being looked at, but I also don't want to be a jerk and keep opening tickets. If no reply soon I will copy/paste into a new ticket.

[jimnyc]

I take back what I said about the thanks system, still loading like a dog.

[glockmail]

Must be a virus from all that porn Jim watches....