Shootout at Mortality Test Stats?

[Zappo]

because the server the forums run on here have something around 2-3 request / second or maybe more if we count the banners and external systems.

Make that an even 4 requests per second to make sure, when the boards are at peak usage during the day.

You mean, counting the website and hosted sites too?

 

[Adlon]

Well, it seems that my DB took a dump on me, de to the mass registrations we've had yesterday.

So, the forum package I use itself was not necessarily under observation. The point of the test, was to look at a whole possible solution. Not just a server, or software.

I will get my DB unborked today. And I wonder how ANY package could handle that amount of mass registrations, truth be told.

We had approx 750 people regiser, most of which came in over 3 hours, and many were simultaneous.

I do believe, tho, that the test showed there IS a viable solution for the forums here.

After I get MY forums unborked, I'll get with Morrus.

 

[Adlon]

Mortality Update:

Seems we in our haste to recompile PHP before the onlaught, we left ONE critical setting OFF in the PHP.ini.

This critical setting, once turned on, fixed our forums instantly.

So, we can possibly guess that they would have performed better than they did yesterday, the delimiting factor still being the power of my server.

So, this news makes the test yesterday even more successful.

 

[Quickbeam]

Sorry to hear that an important setting was left OFF yesterday. But as everyone has noted, with the exception of a few activation bugs and slow movement in loading, your server held up well.

Thanks for letting us utilize your site as a testing grounds!!

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I was very impressed with the test yesterday. Near the end I started getting a few database errors, but a reload fixed everything each time I got one.

 

[Adlon]

Acknowledged.

One setting, and we may have had even better performance, certainly not any worse.

My initial thoughts are the fact that I run Linux. Now, any MS guys out there, I mean no ill will. Remember, Adlon uses MS stuff to make his day happen

But, I run Linux, and Apache web server. Having recompiled Apache 2, and the latest PHP, I see a performance increase based on our regular traffic.

So, I can say that there is definately an issue with an OS, and perhaps configuration, to give vBulletin credit. I've messed with vBulletin, but not much.

I'll email Morrus after the Radio Show tonite, and me and him need to chat.

 

[reapersaurus]

what was the impressions from the test?

As far as _I_ saw, the boards were incredibly slow.
So slow that it would really make browsing them a painful process, IF that performance was continued.

It sounds like things might go faster now, especially if it's upgraded from that dog 450 MHz processor and skimpy 128 MB of RAM but remember, if the whole boards descended on that server, it would be much more bogged down than what it was that one day (would be my guess)

 

[Adlon]

During the test, being SLOW wasnt a bad thing. I expected my server to buckle, and bend. And I expected it to not break, and it didnt let me down.

Any solution for these forums would involve a much more muscular machine than mine, no doubt.

But remember, presently, if Morrus opens up the user limit, after about 200 users, the forums totally die, per Morrus.

The test was simply to look at the traffic in a different environment.