Anyone else lagging?

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Yup, I'm also getting lags...That sure makes it tough to do my "job" as a moderator here.:grumpy:.
 
I'm with Dann on that. I post about a move and the post takes forever to show up and then it's a double post so I delete one and THEN I get around to the move.

Earlier today I posted something that just never did go through. I got tired of waiting, went to another website, forgot what I was doing on BF, and shut the computer off and went out for lunch.

No complaint -- it was a nice picnic lunch down by the lake. :)
 
It's so frustrating, what with the server changes, and index changes, and deleting/locking of threads to ensure smooth operation.

I am happy to pay for this site and help support it. In terms of value in conversations and knowledge, I get 110% return on the funds. In terms of a technical standpoint, I'm not. I've clicked away in frustration more often than I wish. The Bladeforums experience is both.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the site and I haven't a clue how to fix it.

Kevin, please do something different! :thumbup:

Coop
 
SharpByCoop said:
It's so frustrating, what with the server changes, and index changes, and deleting/locking of threads to ensure smooth operation.

I am happy to pay for this site and help support it. In terms of value in conversations and knowledge, I get 110% return on the funds. In terms of a technical standpoint, I'm not. I've clicked away in frustration more often than I wish. The Bladeforums experience is both.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the site and I haven't a clue how to fix it.

Kevin, please do something different! :thumbup:

Coop
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You have two fronts for problems, hardware and software. In this case, software would entail the forum software and the database software, as well as whatever the server is running (Apache 2.2.8 is what's showing up for me.)

A different server software (lighttpd ?) could improve performance by freeing up resources on the server.

A different forum software (phpbb, and not going to happen) could change the overhead of loading pages and the amount of content that you need to send.

A different database (MySQL vs. SQLite) could alter the amount of queries needed, but that would also entail messing with the forum software.

Other things to think about are hosting (both monthly transfer volume and bandwidth throughput), the server itself, and spikes in activity. What times are the most load heavy, perhaps a load balancer pointing to several servers all feeding off of the same database connection could be in order?
 
Just had another of many lags that **seem** to be getting longer and/or more frequent in duration over time. I don't know if anyone else is getting this sense or it's just my increasing frustration level.
 
I have had intermittent troubles for the last two days from three computers, one on Comcast, one on Verizon, and one on AT&T. So, it seems like a bf.c problem to me.
 
"I've clicked away in frustration more often than I wish."

Amen to that! For at least a week now!

I've been trying to go to my old "for sale" posts and delete the pics, to lessen my share of the data load, although obviously that's an inconsequential drop in the overall sea of data stored on BFC. Maybe if pics were automatically deleted after a certain amount of time that would help?
 
fishface5 said:
"I've clicked away in frustration more often than I wish."

Amen to that! For at least a week now!

I've been trying to go to my old "for sale" posts and delete the pics, to lessen my share of the data load, although obviously that's an inconsequential drop in the overall sea of data stored on BFC. Maybe if pics were automatically deleted after a certain amount of time that would help?
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That only helps if people are actively viewing them. Hard drive storage space is cheap, so them being stored on BFC (like attachments) isn't a problem. If they are photobucket pictures then it doesn't matter at all because they are served off of photobucket not the BFC server.
 
I logged on today at about 10 Am CDT then the site froze up and I couldn't do anything. I first thought it was my PC, but found the machine was fine. I let it sit on BF and came back a few minutes later and now it seems okay.
 
Nasty lags tonight. 9:30 or so Central.
 
Josh K said:
You have two fronts for problems, hardware and software. In this case, software would entail the forum software and the database software, as well as whatever the server is running (Apache 2.2.8 is what's showing up for me.)

A different server software (lighttpd ?) could improve performance by freeing up resources on the server.

A different forum software (phpbb, and not going to happen) could change the overhead of loading pages and the amount of content that you need to send.

A different database (MySQL vs. SQLite) could alter the amount of queries needed, but that would also entail messing with the forum software.

Other things to think about are hosting (both monthly transfer volume and bandwidth throughput), the server itself, and spikes in activity. What times are the most load heavy, perhaps a load balancer pointing to several servers all feeding off of the same database connection could be in order?
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based on the reports in this thread, i'm guessing BFC just needs to throw more hardware at it. i imagine they're already gotten vb support staff to help with mysql and apache optimizations, and probably utilization of caching software like xcache. a vb site this size, with 6,000,000+ posts and 137,000+ members, probably has a 7-10 GB database (depending on individual user storage allowances and degree of indexing). need dedicated db and web servers at this point, if they don't already have it. to put things in perspective, the largest forum in the world, Gaia Online, with 1.6 billion posts and a highly customized version of phpbb, probably has 75-100 multi-core Xeon servers in their server farm. it gets expensive. apache, ubuntu, and mysql are free, HDD space isn't an issue these days, and bandwidth isn't bad for forums. its the hardware, support, and hosting that costs big money.

all that said, alot can be done with meager hardware. i'm currently running a very fast loading vb forum with 4.5 million posts, 21,000+ members, and 300-500 online at any time, on a single core Celeron and 512MB of DDR (apache, mysql, centos). it does require ALOT of babysitting and tweaking though, so i'm about ready to upgrade to a multi-core Xeon and 2-4GB of DDR2.
 
I've been having trouble connecting...My browser will time out without connecting to bladeforums.com...Finally got through just now...

Been happening for a couple days now...maybe longer...
 
Bad tonight. Just surfing around the site takes forever. Opening threads is the worst. Keep getting "waiting for bladeforums . . ." Then it picks up but only for a little while . . .:(
 
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