Boards Sluggish Today?

[Mark]

If the boards are sluggish for you, try pruning your Ignore list down to less than 250 usernames.

So much ignorance plays havoc with the software.

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[Darkness]

If the boards are sluggish for you, try pruning your Ignore list down to less than 250 usernames.

So much ignorance plays havoc with the software.

So that's why diaglo has problems.

 

[Michael Morris]

Yep, there's definitely a slowdown. My suspicion is that it's connected to the post index problem, although I can't be sure. The index will be rebuilt this week - we'll see if that fixes it!

No, the post index is only referenced during searches (I think). That is the most recent change.

I can start the reindex at any time and let it run in the background - but that will slow the boards down the entire time the reindex processes.

 

[Greylock]

Hong broke the internet.

That's the most reasonable explanation. Fetching some rope...

 

[Mark]

No, the post index is only referenced during searches (I think). That is the most recent change.

I can start the reindex at any time and let it run in the background - but that will slow the boards down the entire time the reindex processes.

Are you saying that, then, you do not know what it is that is slowing down the boards?

Or are you saying that you have been reindexing in the background already and that is what is slowing down the boards during peak hours?

Your post is cryptic in that it contests what Morrus says but immediately follows with the caveat, "(I think)", indicating that you don't know for sure if what he is saying is correct, and therefore what anyone else is saying might be correct or incorrect.

Perhaps starting with what is known will help matters out?

The boards were shut down on Friday (and on into Saturday) in an attempt to reindex the boards that ultimately did not achieve a satisfactory result. Correct?

This reindexing will have to happen again in order to get the search function to work, at all? Better than it does now? With more than a single search parameter? To a level that it will not cause problems with the rest of the functionality of the site? It doesn't really need to be done to get things to work now, it's just a routine maintenence process that requires greater time and resources to run, the longer you put it off?

Is the reindexing an all or nothing process? (Did the reindexing on Friday night and into Saturday actually accomplish some of the task and can be restarted where it left off? Or does the process need to be completed when it is started for the process to be of any use at all?)

Are there other things that have been done behind the scenes of the boards, specifically on Monday morning/late Sunday night that, in your opinion, could be the caue of the current slow down in functionality? Were things done at all, regardless of whether or not, in your opinion, they could cause the current slow down?

Anyway, there's a punch list of questions for you to answer either to yourself or in the thread that I hope will help work through the process of figuring out a solution to the current board slowness. I know you would dislike as much as anyone if all of the time, money, and effort of getting the new servers culminated in having boards that were, during peak hours, just as much a pain in the butt as they were before all of the time, money, and effort. I wish you well in your efforts to fix the current problem.

 

[IronWolf]

No, the post index is only referenced during searches (I think). That is the most recent change.

Sitting in the armchair and looking in... (i.e. it is always easier to be the armchair sysadmin than the one doing the work), if you only rebuilt the search indexes that shouldn't have any effect on the boards short of the search function. But if it was the indexes on the table(s) themselves and the indexes were lost then that could impact the speed of the boards as the pointers that help speed DB queries have been lost (until they are recreated).

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

The other day when this thread was started, I had noticed a little bit of a slowdown, but not that much. Today however the boards seem almost as slow as they were before the server upgrade. Other sites I have visited have not seemed noticably slower, so I do not believe the problem is at my end.

 

[EricNoah]

Yeah, there's something seriously wrong with the site this morning...

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Ahhh! Much better all of the sudden. Whatever you guys did, thanks.

 

[reveal]

I've noticed that it's sluggish when I go from one forum to another, or click on a link to read a post, but it's really slow when I click to reply and try to post my reply.