3 booms in 15 minutes......

except the fact that forums.demigodthegame.com have been down for the past 4 days or so

I was enjoying the LACK of booms them it hit again(drat)

harpo

On July 1st we found out that our database re-indexing job stopped working properly due to our database logs reaching their maximum size limit allowed by the server.  We increased the size limit (to double it's previous value) and did a manual re-indexing.  That seemed to help the forums with performance issues.  

What the re-indexing job does is to recreate the indexes in the forum's database to help keep everything fast.  If you're interested in how database indexing works or would like to learn more click here.  The fact that it wasn't working may have contributed to the worsening performance of the forums, and possibly of the Boom errors.

On July 4th, the Demigod forums started exhibiting a consistent 100% CPU spike across all of our servers.  We had to shut them down in order to prevent it from slowing down the other forums and WinCustomize.  Occasionally we would turn them back on to try and resolve the problem but we were unable to resolve them until earlier this morning.  

The 100% CPU usage from Demigod may also have contributed to performance problems and Boom errors.  

As of right now, the re-indexing job is working properly and the Demigod forums are back up.

An update was pushed this morning, July 8th, that may also help with some performance-related issues, but that was not the primary reason for the update.  I am currently working on a second update slated for Monday morning that may help us to track down where the Boom errors are coming from.  This update may decrease the likelihood of a Boom error occurring.

Small little tidbit for Monday's update: I've fixed the editor so that now you can copy/paste links or manually type links and it will auto-link them without having to click on the link button in the editor's toolbar.  Something that was much requested that I finally added.  However, due to some security concerns there is also some discussion about possibly removing HTML entirely from posts, and relying on BBcodes moving forward.  This may or may not happen by Monday, so we'll see.

I hope that's enough of an update for now to appease those of you who feel the forums failing occasionally is something to get upset over.

Bara

   Pics speak and save me from wasting time typing

There may be some reduction in performance in locations outside of America. There are no plans to improve this in the near future, but the changes I make in the future may help overseas users too.

Bara

Thanks for the update, Bara. The load time is excessively slow....not sure why, but ie seems to load quickly when Palemoon and Opera 10.6 don't. Hope this helps a little...altho I'm putting my trust in you, bud.

I hate to just keep on about something, but really, occaisionally is a gross understatement. This site is slow on a fairly regular basis.

Today, I hit F5 refresh on a page, went into the bathroom, drained, came out, looked and it was still refreshing, so I went to the kitchen and got a soda, came back into my office and waited a full minute for the refresh to occur.

I was on messenger with another WC member and he was having similar woes on his end. This is not occaisional.

well...occassionally....is a gross understatement.....but, nonetheless.....thanks for the detailed update.... 

I don't always report the booms....and so often when I do...I boom several times trying to report them....one does lose the impetus....

well..you're not wrong there....

yesterday and today....have been the two worst days for me on WC in 6 years...

yesterday.....pages trying to load.....endlessly......tried everything....left and came back 10...20 mins later....one went all day...never loaded....

amazing.....for the first time...I fully understood what fuzzy has been saying from the UK for years.....

today.....no booms.....at least...none that show Egads anymore.....just........

and this is just about every time I try to post....and if I'm sent a forum link to check out....repeatedly....site temporarily unavailable...

I know it's not your problem......but...we actually pay more for our subscriptions and software than americans do....

this is really disappointing...to put it mildly.....I hope it is corrected really soon...

despite dogged persistence...I can just see it becoming unusable if this level persists or worsens...     It makes the 'BOOM' times.....look just that....like boom times.....at least pages loaded....and was liveable...

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Get this almost every time.

And I thought I had it bad.

harpo