loading time for this site (slow)

[MagickalMemories]

Thankfully, I've been copying everything before sending it, just in case.
Happened to me TWICE today, but both posts went through... site just timed out or something.

Aside from that, I'm seeing a 1000% improvement.

Eric

[YoungWolf777]

It's all over the map for me. Either it's very snappy and responds instantly or times out repeatedly. No seeming rhyme nor reason that I can determine. I had my PM Inbox time out 5 times in a row and then I read & sent 3 PMs with no issues. Now it's timing out again. As a troubleshooter this is maddening to try and pin down.

[kturock]

It's back down to crap for me. I've tried to Pm someone 5 times. It took 20 minutes and tiemed out everytime.

I tried checking refs. It timed out twice.

It's starting to look like everyone better back up their own messages and trades elsewhere. This usually preceeds a server crash on other sites.

[kelanen]

Mon it was much better (just luck I suspect), but it's been back to it's old tricks again yesterday and today.

Posting to forums and PM's seems to be 90% of the issue. I always c/p now - it fails 80% of the time, and takes a few attempts.

[bluemeenie]

I was dito on everything above especially on the PM part that MM was having an issue with but since Monday I have had ZERO problems...

Please works/loads like a charm now

[s_o_r_r_o_w]

Likewise, I've had no trouble with multiple tabs, or messages, for the past couple of days.

[MagickalMemories]

Back up to speed for me today, and I was juggling 5 or 6 threads.

Eric

[kelanen]

Seems good for me too!

What was the fix?

Jon

[TrademasterAdam]

We did another round of memory optimization and cleaning up logs and error messages. Let me know if today is better than before. Basically, the web host and I think we have hit the limit for what this server can do.

Thanks,

TrademasterAdam

[kelanen]

The irony of timeouts trying to load this post, and far more trouble trying to post a reply is not lost on me...

Is it an issue of transactional memory? ie: you've reached a critical mass of active users x activity or something? Or more a storage issue?

What I'm trying to get at it is would us deleting mails, or you imposing temporarily reduced mailboxes, or a 30 day purging on posts or something help the issue, or is it a runtime problem, rather than storage?

I'm loath to delete mails (and I do like to revisit the conversations I had with someone a few months ago, and confirm yes it was a good trade, or why we didn't trade, etc) but if it will will help triage the site I'm willing to do a purge of anything not a currently active trade, and do my bit.

Jon

Ps: having timeout issues on almost all pages everywhere tonight.

[TrademasterAdam]

Transactional memory is the problem. Storage isn't a problem, we just have too many people all at once. I just came upon a heap of time with nothing to do, I'll take a look at it later and see what else I can come up with.

That is pretty freaking funny that this post wouldn't load for you.

TrademasterAdam

[Linrandir]

The irony is astounding.

[Ironhide]

When is the last time you did a defrag for the servers?

[kturock]

The site is still slow, just not as slow.
PM's are the worst.

I was just on another php site at the same time as here. I could surf 2 pages there vs the 1 here. 4pm EST.
Here had 219 users, there 22.
It's also had crashes, but never had the lag like here.

[MagickalMemories]

Adam thinks he might've found the reason (with the server), but I haven't heard anything about a resolution yet.

AFAIK (and this is ONLY speculation), we might have to switch hosting companies.


Eric