Server Busy

GameMaster · 02-10-2005, 01:09 PM

You're not alone. Ever since the new changes were implemented, I've been experiencing a busy server several times a day that last anywhere from a couple minutes to an hour or two. We really need to find what the problem is because it's drastically hurting our activity and new member quota.

And it's just downright annoying.

Null · 02-10-2005, 01:14 PM

its happening more recently. however the problem has been there for at LEAST a year that i can remember seeing it.

it have something to do with a bandwidth limit on the server or something?

Blackmane · 02-10-2005, 01:33 PM

I have been experiencing this issue a lot, but most of the time I can refresh and get right back on. Maybe somebody IS hacking GT as Neo's stories suggest...

/me looks around at people shiftily

Neo · 02-10-2005, 01:49 PM

Well I've disabled the load warning so hopefully that will fix it.

MuGen · 02-10-2005, 01:49 PM

No, I've been running websites for the past 8 years. When the server is too busy, on a forum script like this one, it doesn't have anything to do with the bandwidth... otherwise the forum itself would not load and you'd get a cogent message saying Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.

However, seeing this message it means that there are too many connections to mySQL happening at once, and the script cannot handle the parse load.

.... MEANING... lol.......... when you see that message.... usually too many people are trying to post a topic all at once. It doesn't necessarily mean too many people on the forum. But usually too many people calling the script to parse an action, it will say it is too busy.

The forum will be able to handle many connections to the forum, but when many people ALL AT ONCE try to post a topic or parse the php script, it becomes busy. I hope that's easy to understand.

Canyarion · 02-10-2005, 03:00 PM

What I never got is that NOBODY can use the forum when that happens. I'd understand it if there were a que.

bobcat · 02-10-2005, 03:54 PM

nu uh.

I get it 100 times a day

MasterMind · 02-18-2005, 03:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kyuzo

No, I've been running websites for the past 8 years. When the server is too busy, on a forum script like this one, it doesn't have anything to do with the bandwidth... otherwise the forum itself would not load and you'd get a cogent message saying Bandwidth Limit Exceeded.

However, seeing this message it means that there are too many connections to mySQL happening at once, and the script cannot handle the parse load.

.... MEANING... lol.......... when you see that message.... usually too many people are trying to post a topic all at once. It doesn't necessarily mean too many people on the forum. But usually too many people calling the script to parse an action, it will say it is too busy.

The forum will be able to handle many connections to the forum, but when many people ALL AT ONCE try to post a topic or parse the php script, it becomes busy. I hope that's easy to understand.

Maybe the connections aren't terminating correctly and just sit there until they time out? Then once too many connections are opened up, you start getting the server is busy? Just a thought. Not even sure how this site is set up or how php works.