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I just hit a major 4-5 minute snag - I'm posting this now having just come out of it
Ditto. It seemed to last from around 8:12 to 8:18 EDT.
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Something clealry periodically "happens" on the server. If I could pin it down to exactly how often it is, I might be able to identify it.
I refer you to my post on the first page of this thread
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Originally Posted by Graf
It hung again starting around 13:52 Singapore time [fixed time].
Partial resolution of one request (this thread) started at 13:55
Everything else came back around ~13:57
If you like I can try to provide more start and stop points. When it's up Enworld is lickitysplit fast so I don't think there is going to be too much lag.
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...disquieting...
There was no end to his patience and endurance. He played day and night, his obsession was somewhat disquieting. It was less as if he were playing to dispel gloom or beguile tedium than as if he were giving himself up to the fangs of gaming devils."
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Attempt to post an edit a wiki page hung at 8:39 Singapore time [fixed time]. The edit (and another request) "went through" at 8:43.
I am using firefox 3.0.1. The pages displayed "typical" behavior during this period. Showing a "loading" mark on the tab for the entire duration.
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Interested in playing 4th edition online? The Living 4th EnWorld Campaign is open! [character creationwikiforum]
I am in an interesting period of my life; I will post in games that I run three times a week (M,W,F); and try to maintain obligations in existing games.
...disquieting...
There was no end to his patience and endurance. He played day and night, his obsession was somewhat disquieting. It was less as if he were playing to dispel gloom or beguile tedium than as if he were giving himself up to the fangs of gaming devils."
Kawabata Yasunari - The Master of Go
Persistent typical lag* noted around 9:04 [fixed time]; both wiki and forums affected. First request resolved 9:07. Additional requests began to resolve at 9:08.
*Multiple tabs with the "loading" mark persisting past the normal "timeout" time.
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Interested in playing 4th edition online? The Living 4th EnWorld Campaign is open! [character creationwikiforum]
I am in an interesting period of my life; I will post in games that I run three times a week (M,W,F); and try to maintain obligations in existing games.
...disquieting...
There was no end to his patience and endurance. He played day and night, his obsession was somewhat disquieting. It was less as if he were playing to dispel gloom or beguile tedium than as if he were giving himself up to the fangs of gaming devils."
Kawabata Yasunari - The Master of Go
PTL* noted at 9:54 [fixed time] when attempting to preview new thread.
Request resolved 9:57.
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Interested in playing 4th edition online? The Living 4th EnWorld Campaign is open! [character creationwikiforum]
I am in an interesting period of my life; I will post in games that I run three times a week (M,W,F); and try to maintain obligations in existing games.
...disquieting...
There was no end to his patience and endurance. He played day and night, his obsession was somewhat disquieting. It was less as if he were playing to dispel gloom or beguile tedium than as if he were giving himself up to the fangs of gaming devils."
Kawabata Yasunari - The Master of Go
Interested in playing 4th edition online? The Living 4th EnWorld Campaign is open! [character creationwikiforum]
I am in an interesting period of my life; I will post in games that I run three times a week (M,W,F); and try to maintain obligations in existing games.
...disquieting...
There was no end to his patience and endurance. He played day and night, his obsession was somewhat disquieting. It was less as if he were playing to dispel gloom or beguile tedium than as if he were giving himself up to the fangs of gaming devils."
Kawabata Yasunari - The Master of Go
I absolutely love the temp page. Add your ENWorld logo and a bit larger set of news links and call it a day. Even if you think I'm insane (I seem to be agreeing with a whole lot of people though), if you just had this type of page as an option I would use it. Perhaps a handheld device friendly page? Simple and fast is good. I like Simple
I have been here about 6 different times today and no lag even switching to forums on the first 5, did have some lag between posts in the forums but only about 10 seconds or so.
This time however following the link from the temp front page to this thread took about 45 seconds. No idea why 11:30ish PM CDT if you want timestamps to check against logs.
EDIT: Posted first then went and read entire thread all 3 pages load within 2-3 seconds forwards, backwards, bouncing around... but it is now 11:42 PM seems definately to be hitting on the hours and half hours whatever it is. Michael mentioned cron jobs, you might also want to check inside the cron jobs to see if any of them are launching child processes that don't list in the cron table, just some free advice (and worth every penny you paid for it!)
EDIT 2: Left thread here and went to forums where it completely locked up from 11:47 untill 11:52 allowed 2.5 minutes before stopping and retrying. 3rd attempt got Network Timeout in about 10 seconds. Reload from there got back in after about 15 seconds and then everything was fine again.
Last edited by cougent; 8th August 2008 at 06:56 AM..
Reason: added more data
Can we keep the new front page? I mean, you can tidy it up a bit, but it is easier to read, quicker to load, and contains more visible news within a single small page. Also, it isn't white text on black.
I have been having huge timeout problems all day. Everything was unreachable from 12:15 pm or so CST until 12:25 or so, and again from about 12:35 to 12:45 or 12:50. It greatly resembles how everything was last week.
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