Server busy?????

[drawson]

Is anyone else getting a server busy message? What is up with this I thought this new set up was better?

 

[SLVRBLT]

I've been getting "server busy message" for a long time. Then I got the message "not logged on". It took me forever to log on because I got the "server busy message " again.

Dave

 

[RobG]

There are also times when I get a lot of "Server Busy" screens. This new software is REALLY slick... I really like it. BUT, I think they're gonna need a faster server, or a cluster of servers.



Rob

 

[SLVRBLT]

Rob-

Agree that this new software is slick. As I was trying to access another part of the site, I got an email notification that there was another post to this thread. Took me 3 tries to get back here and read your post. The number of replies read "0" even though there were three when I got here. Seems to be still a few problems here since email notification gets here in good ole Oklahoma quicker that I can access the thread because of "server busy, please try later".

Dave

 

[GSchlegel]

I got spoiled with the old board and my cable modem. Click on a thread and a second later it appeared, pictures and all. The new board is a lot slower and like you, I'm getting a lot "server busy" type messages. I'm sure it's just growing pains and soon they will have the speed back up. One change I don't like is putting the date and time of each log at the bottom. Old habit, but I'm just used to skimming through a thread till I come to the time I got off last night. Don't get me wrong, there are lots of neat improvements and I will learn how to use most of them.



Gene



P. S. The first time I tried to submit my reply, I got a "server busy" message!!!!

 

[R.ebel]

I'm getting "the server is busy" quite oftend.



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[R.ebel]

I see the HTML code is now turned off

 

[Hammer]

ARGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JGblkLand]

I agree with Gene about the time of the post at the top, I also liked that better. I guess the new board will take a little getting used to but I'm sure after it's been around a while and we get all the kinks worked out it'll be great.

 

[mikepvg]

Rob



Very Nice Dually!



Are there some instructions on how to get a thumb nail pic in there by your name like you did?



Thanks

Mike

 

[RobG]

All I'll say is look for "Avatar" in the options.



Rob

 

[SmokinJoe]

Originally posted by R. ebel

I'm getting "the server is busy" quite oftend.



BOMB THE SERVER

The only way to do that is to switch to a real OS, UNIX. That is if they have not already. 100 users seems to be a problem for only anemic OSes like the ones Micro$oft makes... .

 

[RobG]

Hey Joe, before you start an OS war, realize that they're running the forums on PHP, which runs probably 99% of the time on UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD). Yes, it'll run on NT/2000, but I was never able to make PHP talk to an ODBC data source, so I never made it work.



Also consider that the database is going to be the next limiting factor. Unless they're running Oracle (which I'll admit is a great database, but I hate it from a developer standpoint), then things aren't as efficient as they could be. And given Oracle's ridiculous cost, I doubt that's what they're running.



As much traffic as this site gets, if I were running it, I'd have insisted on a cluster of at least two (preferably three) servers, all sharing a single Oracle database (multi-CPU, and on its own dedicated segment), until such a time as a second one would be needed. And that's assuming these forums even support Oracle.



BUT, Ken is doing his best and will get things working. It's not my place to tell him what he should or shouldn't do; I'm just voicing an opinion.



And, while I'm at it, let's not bash the company that has done more to revolutionize the computer industry than any other. Just because they're the largest doesn't mean you should dislike them. You use the tools that are best for a particular job, and in many cases, Microsoft is what I use.



Rob

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Please see this thread from Ken explaining the situation here. It is being worked on as we speak. https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18505



-Steve St. Laurent

Lead Moderator

 

[admin2]

The server....

The server is running Red Hat GNU/Linux. It has 512 meg of ram and 18 gigabytes of drive space.



100 users is not the problem, not for static pages at least. But PHP is not static and pages are dynamically generated on the fly from the database.



Consider that during peak times the database is doing 80-100 queries per second and that the database index files are over a gigabyte in size..... real solutions are being worked on, including a hardware upgrade.



Now Please... . as requested earlier, lets put this to rest as the debate is only increasing the load and making the problem worse.



Your co-operation is greatly appreciated... . (he mumbles as he wipes the sweat from his brow)

Ken

TDR Admin

 

[Mike Sisk]

Ken, one more question if you don't mind: what database are you using on the backend? Just curious.



BTW, keep up the good work--these load problems can be a real bear to deal with and it's hard to test dynamic content on a test site.



I'm working on an Oracle-backed site now with a 6-GB database--not the easiest thing since the version of Linux it's on has the 2-GB filesize limit...