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[Umbran]

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.

Morrus, check your PMs, please. I think I can help with this.

 

[Michael Morris]

So something that's happening every half hour for 5 mins or so? or every quarter hour for 5 mins?

There are some scheduled tasks that are taking place in the background, but they're all at 15/30 or 60 minute repeated intervals. Nothing at 20 minutes.

I've searched the machine top to bottom. I'm guessing it's a hacker's cron job but its damn well hidden whatever it is.

 

[Eosin the Red]

The site seemed normal last night but is dragging today.

 

[Obryn]

It hung a bit for me just now.

Overall, though, everything seems quite zippy, including the forums.

-O

 

[Mark]

Something just now killed it for a few minutes.

Happened again at 12:33 pm central USA time, for several minutes.

 

[Morrus]

I've searched the machine top to bottom. I'm guessing it's a hacker's cron job but its damn well hidden whatever it is.

I just disabled five scheduled tasks which we weren't using, plus one related to PHPAds... we're not using that, are we?

 

[Montague68]

Just tried to log in again, at 12:14 PM Pacific time. The front page partially loaded after 3 minutes, then loaded completely after 6 minutes. Once loaded to get to the forums it was a 5 second load time or so.

 

[Intrope]

From 2:14 Central to 2:25, I couldn't reload this thread, although I never waited as long as Gearjammer.

 

[Ghaerdon Fain]

It's much faster. Thx. No headaches today

 

[kreynolds]

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