Why is Thumped so unstable? (1 Viewer)

[Goodbye]

In work.
At home.
Same thing.

Sometimes a page will load.

Sometimes not. (Unable to reach server)

Wait 15 mins...

Try again.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes not.

Very frustrating.

 

[pete]

Obviously you're doing it wrong.

 

[the strange guy]

Happens to me too!!

 

[HMD]

i only get that in work. i thought it was pete trying to get me to do some work

 

[pete]

you're all doing it wrong

 

[flashback]

I find frantically clicking refresh whenever thumped doesn't load does the trick.

 

[Diddles]

In work.
At home.
Same thing.

Sometimes a page will load.

Sometimes not. (Unable to reach server)

Wait 15 mins...

Try again.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes not.

Very frustrating.

Give it a few weeks and you won't have time to give a bollix

 

[pete]

yeah that's bound to help alright

Anyways here's my not very comprehensive list of possible causes:

1. Server load just too damn high
When there's too many people on for the server to cope with things can get slowww. There's nothing actually wrong, it's just not able to keep up. Peak times being just after lunchtime.

2. Miscofigured MySQL shit
The configuration of the database server might not be exactly right, which might be causing timeouts if multiple complex queries are running at the same time. The fact that I get quite a few 'MySQL Server has gone away' errors every day lead me to believe this is a factor. Oh and the message board database being over 1GB doesn't help either.

3. Misconfigured Apache shit
The configuration of the HTTP server might not be exactly right which can cause timeouts while it queues your request up. Not convinced about this one, but it's always possible.

4. Firewall / mod_security problems
Some pretty strict default rules on the firewall combined with mod_security being a complete fucker can sometimes lead to HTTP requests getting dropped if they're too long or have weird character encodings or look like they're a match for some suspicious activity. Pain in the hole to troubleshoot, but I'm working on it.

5. You're doing it wrong.
Nearly always the actual problem.

 

[ann post]

1. Server load just too damn high
When there's too many people on for the server to cope with things can get slowww. There's nothing actually wrong, it's just not able to keep up. Peak times being just after lunchtime.

bout 3?? that sounds about right, like everyone gets back from lunch, waits an hour till everyone round them gets back off to dream land so they can check thumped.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

are you using a mac tehian?

 

[GO]

Probably too many whacky gags in rapid succesion causing the problem.

 

[pissypants]

Sometimes thumped gets so good that it just has to take a rest.

 

[Gambra]

It was doing the non-loading thing there for me. Hardly going to be a high server load at 10:30 on a Sunday night is there?

 

[pete]

there's 126 users on. blame them.

 

[pete]

actually - what were you searching for?

 

[pete]

top - 22:45:52 up 10 days, 12:15, 1 user, load average: 1.93, 0.93, 0.71

that's the load right now

 

[Gambra]

actually - what were you searching for?

Actually the searches were fine. it was was I tried to load any threads off the results that it went down

 

[pete]

that's the thing - it didn't go down at all. it was just you (i got the error messages specifying your username).

all very odd

edit:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0 Beta 4:

Invalid SQL:

REPLACE INTO membervisits
(userid, ipaddress, useragent, dateline, script, rdata)
VALUES
(4137, 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081029 Firefox/2.0.0.18', 1228082118, 'showthread', 'a:7:{s:1:"t";s:5:"68673";s:8:"threadid";i:68673;s:1:"s";s:0:"";s:6:"postid";i:0;s:7:"forumid";s:1:"5";s:6:"pollid";i:0;s:1:"a";s:0:"";}');

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Sunday, November 30th 2008 @ 09:55:18 PM
Error Date : Sunday, November 30th 2008 @ 10:20:36 PM
Script : http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=68673
Referrer : http://www.thumped.com/bbs/search.php?searchid=1426203
IP Address : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Username : Gambra

 

[Gambra]

It actually specified my user name? Uh.. I don't know what to do now. Will I just stop using Thumped altogether?

 

[Goodbye]

Pharmacist:
Yes, yes I am.

Pete:
How does one actually "do it wrong?"

Diddles:
You're probably right!