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  • #1

    It's getting ridiculous...one month, two month, three month, four...

    The incessant seemingly random slowdowns that "pause" the site for minutes at a time, the constant stream of DPs...

    If you guys can't figure out what's going on months after the fact, can't you find someone who will? Won't vBulletin provide tech support? How about your hosts? Has anyone done any performance monitoring to see what is happening when the site enters one if its "pauses"?
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
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  • #2
    I share your frustration, Asher. It is continuing to take longer to diagnose and resolve these slowdowns than we, as Apolyton staff, would like as well. Given that, we can easily recognize how you and other non-staff members are feeling about and regarding them too.

    I cannot address your comments specifically as I am not knowledgeable enough of the circumstance technically speaking to do so, but I am certain one of our technical staff will be able to in the coming days.
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    • #3
      I hope they figure it out. The site is rapidly approaching unusable.
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      • #4
        If you need assistance doing performance troubleshooting, let me know. I've done that kind of stuff on both Unix and Windows extensively.

        I'm suspecting it's the database at fault. If the DB problems go away, so too will the DP (which only occur when the quick post doesn't post fast enough, due to DB problems).

        I'd closely analyze the DB schema and compare it to how vBulletin is supposed to be laid out. Maybe Apolyton is missing some indexes or clustering configurations, such that the odd quirky feature hammers the DB instead of being quick like the code expects. And configure MySQL and its support tools to analyze specific queries that take longer than, say, 1 second and look for trends.
        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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        • #5
          Please take Asher up on his offer.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by DrSpike View Post
            Please take Asher up on his offer.
            With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

            Steven Weinberg

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            • #7
              Is this something only affecting some people? Some times I can't get a response for a few minutes, but it's seldom and I've never got any DPs from it so far. A minor annoyance, to be sure, but nothing more as it is now.
              Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
              I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
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              • #8
                It's systemwide but sporadic.

                Do you use the QuickReply box at the bottom?
                "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                • #9
                  nothing will be done until Wouter or Gramphos come back for a week or so and do general maintenence for a easy temp fix.

                  There will be no new color schemes, no new site additions (like flags, PvP Tournys/Ladder,) and no new admins to do anything to help for fear of hacking for several years, if ever.

                  Welcome to Apolyton
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Asher View Post
                    It's systemwide but sporadic.

                    Do you use the QuickReply box at the bottom?
                    Of course. Almost always.
                    Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.-Isaiah 41:10
                    I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made - Psalms 139.14a
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                    • #11
                      Maybe the system has heuristics. I get DP all the time as my posts are seen as valuable, while you never get them as your posts are worthless.
                      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                      • #12
                        Maybe the system has heuristics. I get DP all the time as my posts are seen as valuable, while you never get them as your posts are worthless.
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #13
                          Speak of the devil.
                          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                          • #14
                            The DPs aren't as bothersome as the random slowdowns and server is busy errors. I'm not sure how the server can be so busy when there are so few active posters.

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                            • #15
                              somebody(s) could be stealing the bandwidth (DDOS) but who would waste their time, or the said raep-site's security, on this forgotton hole is moar degenerate than even I could imagine...

                              and thats bad.
                              The Wizard of AAHZ

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