I... think... that... the... server...

[Heretic Apostate]

is... having... some... difficulties...

What happened? It isn't supposed to be this slow. After all, it's not during normal working hours, when everyone is reading the boards...

 

[Heretic Apostate]

Okay, it's doing it again...

What the heck is going on? It's not like it's the middle of a workday, it's 10PM for chrissakes!

 

[las]

Its slow all the time for me now. For a little while I couled even get to the main site now its all going real slow it some times takes five minuts to get from screen to screen.

 

[Krug]

Yeap terribly slow for me too.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

It's slowed down for me, too.

 

[Michael Morris]

It's slowed down for me, too.

From what I gather there is a program on the server running a bad database program that is competing with MySQL for processor time. The two are creating a backlog so the machine gets slower, s l o w e r, s.. l.. o.. w.. e.. r.., CRASH, reboot, repeat.

We need to find out what it is and hope it isn't a virus.

 

[Heretic Apostate]

I thought, given our size, we had our own server?

 

[Michael Morris]

I thought, given our size, we had our own server?

We do - But we have multiple site sections. There are 4 active databases - topsites, news, boards and reviews. There have been others in the past.

Anyway, with all those sections, tracking a glitch down won't be easy.

 

[Mistwell]

Site is still super slow for me, and has been all day. It's 3am on the west coast here, so I cannot imagine there is massive traffic.

I do notice that the menu-bar attop seems to load oddly. It freezes, and then suddenly pops into existence all at once.

 

[LightPhoenix]

The board's goin at a crawl for me too.

I've noticed the popping-up thing, but I think that's just because it's loaded in its entirety before it's shown on the page, instead of as it's parsed, as with html/php.