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Dread Phirate YYS
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0.  Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: DDRFreak going haywire!! The Apocalypse!!1 |
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DDRFreak's been a little antsy for me lately. I'll click to do something and it'll either go through or it'll take five minutes then give me a white page with a script error message or something similar. Are there some technical difficulties happening yet again?
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VxJasonxV
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| 1. Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Can you remember what the error message was?
'Some error message' certainly doesn't help  .
I know that the 'connection limit exceeded for non-super users' error message has been rearing it's head again, I don't know if something can be done about that or not.
I haven't seen anything else.
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Dread Phirate YYS
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| 2. Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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It goes between an odd Script error that I can't understand and an "Unable to load forum template" error.
Edit: | Quote: | phpBB : Critical Error
Could not open subSilver template config file |
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Cutriss
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| 3. Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Well, in addition to that, there's also the "template does not exist" error.
Ironically enough, while trying to reply to this thread, I got the following, within the "Post a reply" table:
Warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in /home/ddrfreak/www/www.ddrfreak.com/data/phpBB2/includes/template.php on line 265
Template->loadfile(): File ./templates/subSilver/posting_topic_review.tpl for handle reviewbody is empty
A lot of requests are just timing out. I also tried loading some junk files from the server to generate 404's, and that took forever too. To me, it looks like Apache's getting swamped.
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VxJasonxV
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| 4. Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Cutriss wrote: | | A lot of requests are just timing out. I also tried loading some junk files from the server to generate 404's, and that took forever too. To me, it looks like Apache's getting swamped. |
Really, you think so  ?
Many many many visitors to the site.
I've gotten a variety of those template file errors myself. Don't know what really can be done myself. I haven't been seeing them often though.
Have you?
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J Dogg
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| 5. Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:16 am Post subject: |
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Well, I know the cause to the template errors. Next time you get them, notice that it's always on the hour. It's an unfortunate side effect of the way our system is set up, and I'm not sure the best way to fix it. We automatically update our pages from the source tree every hour, and this is done by copying files over. During this time, if you access a page with a template that has been copied over only part of the way, you will hit the error.
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Bringer of Death
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| 6. Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| J Dogg wrote: | | I'm not sure the best way to fix it. |
Do you have to do it every hour? Why not make it like...every 24 hours or so? Or am I just not seeing the bigger picture?
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Phrekwenci
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| 7. Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:28 am Post subject: |
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I figured a lot of the slowness last night was due to the influx of users at the time. The site seems to be running fine now.
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Cutriss
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| 8. Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| VxJasonxV wrote: | | Cutriss wrote: | | A lot of requests are just timing out. I also tried loading some junk files from the server to generate 404's, and that took forever too. To me, it looks like Apache's getting swamped. |
Really, you think so ? |
Well, I may have a degree, but IANAWA (website admin), and since I don't actually work for DDRFreak, I can only speculate on what's wrong...not "definitively state".
Is the excessive traffic in the evenings primarily forum traffic, or is it more distributed among the other sections of the site?
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sherl0k
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J Dogg
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| 10. Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:05 am Post subject: |
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| sherl0k wrote: | | almost everything on the site runs off of one SQL database. would it be smarter to split up some of the content into multiple SQL databases, namely giving the forum its own? |
We already do that.. the forum runs on its own.
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J Dogg
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| 11. Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| Death Bringer wrote: | | J Dogg wrote: | | I'm not sure the best way to fix it. |
Do you have to do it every hour? Why not make it like...every 24 hours or so? Or am I just not seeing the bigger picture? |
24 hours might be a better idea, since the site doesn't really get updated every hour anyway
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Bringer of Death
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| 12. Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| J Dogg wrote: | | 24 hours might be a better idea, since the site doesn't really get updated every hour anyway |
If I'm understanding you right, wouldn't it still be okay if you updated it every 7 days? That is, of course, assuming you don't update that often...
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J Dogg
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| 13. Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:03 am Post subject: |
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| Death Bringer wrote: | | J Dogg wrote: | | 24 hours might be a better idea, since the site doesn't really get updated every hour anyway |
If I'm understanding you right, wouldn't it still be okay if you updated it every 7 days? That is, of course, assuming you don't update that often... |
Believe it or not, we update more often than that.
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Cutriss
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| 14. Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 7:23 am Post subject: |
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If you don't mind my asking, what exactly are we talking about when we say "updates"? You mean like the frontpage using cached queries from the Headlines forum, so that it's not a drain on the forums DB?
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J Dogg
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| 15. Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| Cutriss wrote: | | If you don't mind my asking, what exactly are we talking about when we say "updates"? You mean like the frontpage using cached queries from the Headlines forum, so that it's not a drain on the forums DB? |
I mean changing the source code in one way or another
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Mr. Deus
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| 16. Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| I'm sure I don't have to tell you this, but if you're going to update it only every 24 hours, find out your average time with the lowest connections and set it to update then. Surely DDRFreak must have some sort of bandwidth monitoring service to find out when they're losing their bandwidth. |
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Shen
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| 17. Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Is anybody else still experiencing slow loading time? Sometimes I would get this error message:
Warning: pg_connect(): Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: connection limit exceeded for non-superusers . in /home/ddrfreak/www/www.ddrfreak.com/data/phpBB2/db/postgres7.php on line 80
phpBB : Critical Error
Could not connect to the database
I'm using Mozilla Firefox 0.8. |
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VxJasonxV
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| 18. Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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That error message simply means too many people are hitting the site simultaneously. It is a recurring issue, and I don't know that there's much that we can do about it.
Give it 30 seconds to a minute, refresh the page, it should work.
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J Dogg
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| 19. Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:02 am Post subject: |
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The postgresql server is being overloaded at peak times. I'm working on some even more caching of pages for unregistered users to help relieve this.
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