has the forums been down lately - Page 4

SCHUMI-4-EVA · May 22nd, 2008

For me it's 4AM in the morning (yes I know I should be asleep XD ) on GMT+2 ... same timezone as you though at the moment Bobbi.

TheCloudOfSmoke · May 23rd, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by PCXL-Fan

For me at midnight every night here in winnipeg UTC/GMT -6 hours (7am Berlin Time) which is 7 hours behind Berlin time (which I'm guessing is pretty close to the time your timezone Bobbi) the forum start becoming kind of unresponsive for about 25 minutes to 1.5 hours. It happens sporadically at other times but this seems to happen ever night at this time.

It happens starting pretty much exactly at midnight though my time.

Perhaps skoreanime can doubly verify this since he lives in the same city as me or anyone else who lives in the same timezone as me.

I can still surf the web at lightning fast speeds during this 25min to 1.5 hour stint though so I know it isn't my internet connection.

edit: it became momentarily unresponsive for a minute again at 6:33 am. But now it seems to be working.

Nucking Futs told me that there was a reason behind why that happens a while ago. Though I forget exactly why. I'm sure bobbi can shed some light on that subject.

Hard core Rikki · May 23rd, 2008

Perhaps you were referring to daily backuping?

TheCloudOfSmoke · May 23rd, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hard core Rikki

Perhaps you were referring to daily backuping?

I would assume that is the reason behind it.

PCXL-Fan · May 23rd, 2008

These slowdowns hardly ever occured 5 months ago though. I never remember any slowdown from the daily backup happening.

Only the time it happened last year was when that arab dude tried to mess with emuforums.

SCHUMI-4-EVA · May 23rd, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCloudOfSmoke

Nucking Futs told me that there was a reason behind why that happens a while ago. Though I forget exactly why. I'm sure bobbi can shed some light on that subject.

You spoke with NF? How is he doing?

**Bobbi** · May 23rd, 2008

Hrmm, the server load has been fine all day - we routed all the spam mails entering NGEmu to null now and disabled all services related to it. On long term, we'll send mails to another server to keep this one from slowing down too much because of it.

niuus · May 24th, 2008

Wow, i still can't access the site regularly. Every one/two weeks or so, it works for 1 or 2 days maximum.

Is there some ban against south america?

Squall-Leonhart · May 25th, 2008

your isp is probably caching an old ip address for the site, add the sites current ip into your host file

arijit_bhaumik · May 26th, 2008

has the site been renovated or what?
i cudnt access this site all day.
i cudnt even ping it.
but i got an email frm here abt updated threads.
cud the prblm b frm my side?

SCHUMI-4-EVA · May 26th, 2008

Nah the site has been fine all day so the problem was on your side.

arijit_bhaumik · May 26th, 2008

but still the site does look somewhat different frm yestrday night.
the buttons seem to hav changed.

ozzgx4 · May 26th, 2008

Yeah the buttons have changed, there just updating stuff

SCHUMI-4-EVA · May 26th, 2008

Yeah bobbi updated them, but it never caused any forum downtime.

Site Themes bugs thread

Squall-Leonhart · May 26th, 2008

The forum has been fine since Bobbi switched the mail handling.

bcrt2000 · May 26th, 2008

I wasn't able to access the forums for the last hour, just am able to do it now. Almost once or twice a day theres an hour of where I can't access either the forums or the main site, or both.

Squall-Leonhart · May 27th, 2008

The forum has been up and down and around over the past 5 hours

arijit_bhaumik · May 27th, 2008

yeah i noticed , ny reasons?

Squall-Leonhart · May 27th, 2008

high server load, we did have an emulator release in the last 2 days.

We just had the server rise to 25% usage then bottom off again.

If its no trouble Bobbi i'll run a few searches on the site and monitor the server cpu usage.
I can do that with vba-m forums admin tools.

OK i believe i have a suspect!

When i do a site search the board immediately jumps up 2-3% server usage, now imagine more 3 or 4 people searching the board at the same time.

Hard core Rikki · May 27th, 2008

searches arent even timelimited currently anymore, you know... (used to be limited to 1 search per ip every 50 seconds, iirc)

edit: emuforums and vba-m forum went "server busy" 8 minutes ago exactly (11 minutes after adding this post, since it got automerged)

May 22nd, 2008	#61 (permalink)
SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Governmentless South Africa Posts: 5,823	For me it's 4AM in the morning (yes I know I should be asleep XD ) on GMT+2 ... same timezone as you though at the moment Bobbi. __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM, 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT, 320GB HDD, Windows XPSP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!!

May 23rd, 2008	#63 (permalink)
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May 23rd, 2008	#65 (permalink)
PCXL-Fan GET 2 DA CHOPPAAAAAAA!!! Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Canada ──────────────────── PC Accelerator (aka PCXL) was a Computer gaming magazine published from 1997 until 2000 Posts: 2,930	These slowdowns hardly ever occured 5 months ago though. I never remember any slowdown from the daily backup happening. Only the time it happened last year was when that arab dude tried to mess with emuforums. __________________ E6600 Core 2 Duo, Geforce 8800GTX @ Stock Speed. 1x 2.1GB HDD, 1x 1.4GB HDD Windows XP Pro Sp2. \| Flexing my penticeps for tri-mammaried ladies across the world \| gamersat678's Bug Reporter \|\|\| cottonvibe's pcsx2 guide for noobs \|\|\| GSdx plugin DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer

May 23rd, 2008	#67 (permalink)
Bobbi Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 2,030	Hrmm, the server load has been fine all day - we routed all the spam mails entering NGEmu to null now and disabled all services related to it. On long term, we'll send mails to another server to keep this one from slowing down too much because of it. __________________ Specs: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ • 2048 MB PC400 RAM • Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT PCI-E • WinXP Pro

May 24th, 2008	#68 (permalink)
niuus Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Caracas Posts: 83	Wow, i still can't access the site regularly. Every one/two weeks or so, it works for 1 or 2 days maximum. Is there some ban against south america? __________________ "Piensa y actúa, comienza por ti" "Think and act, begin with yourself" Main Rig: Motherboard: abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD / CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300@2.52GHz (stock fan)/ RAM: Corsair Xtreme XMS2 3GB DDR2@800 / Video: GeForce 8500GT (Forceware 177.92+PhysX 8.09.04) / Sound: Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS / Speakers: Creative Inspire 5.1 5200 / HD: Hitachi 500GB / OS: Windows XP SP3+

May 25th, 2008	#69 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 5,848	your isp is probably caching an old ip address for the site, add the sites current ip into your host file __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

May 26th, 2008	#70 (permalink)
arijit_bhaumik Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: in HELL Posts: 282	has the site been renovated or what? i cudnt access this site all day. i cudnt even ping it. but i got an email frm here abt updated threads. cud the prblm b frm my side?

May 26th, 2008	#71 (permalink)
SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Governmentless South Africa Posts: 5,823	Nah the site has been fine all day so the problem was on your side. __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM, 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT, 320GB HDD, Windows XPSP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!!

May 26th, 2008	#72 (permalink)
arijit_bhaumik Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: in HELL Posts: 282	but still the site does look somewhat different frm yestrday night. the buttons seem to hav changed.

May 26th, 2008	#73 (permalink)
ozzgx4 Dark Sage Join Date: May 2007 Location: London Posts: 1,495	Yeah the buttons have changed, there just updating stuff __________________ -OzzGX4 I sat back looking at the stars and began to think...where the HECK is my roof?!

May 26th, 2008	#74 (permalink)
SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Governmentless South Africa Posts: 5,823	Yeah bobbi updated them, but it never caused any forum downtime. Site Themes bugs thread __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM, 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT, 320GB HDD, Windows XPSP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!!

May 26th, 2008	#75 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 5,848	The forum has been fine since Bobbi switched the mail handling. __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

May 26th, 2008	#76 (permalink)
bcrt2000 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 58	I wasn't able to access the forums for the last hour, just am able to do it now. Almost once or twice a day theres an hour of where I can't access either the forums or the main site, or both.

May 27th, 2008	#77 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 5,848	The forum has been up and down and around over the past 5 hours __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

May 27th, 2008	#78 (permalink)
arijit_bhaumik Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: in HELL Posts: 282	yeah i noticed , ny reasons?

May 27th, 2008	#79 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 5,848	high server load, we did have an emulator release in the last 2 days. We just had the server rise to 25% usage then bottom off again. If its no trouble Bobbi i'll run a few searches on the site and monitor the server cpu usage. I can do that with vba-m forums admin tools. OK i believe i have a suspect! When i do a site search the board immediately jumps up 2-3% server usage, now imagine more 3 or 4 people searching the board at the same time. __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct Last edited by Squall-Leonhart; May 27th, 2008 at 13:10. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

May 27th, 2008	#80 (permalink)
Hard core Rikki Let's go! Come on! Join Date: May 2004 Location: Perpetual Hawaii Posts: 5,215	searches arent even timelimited currently anymore, you know... (used to be limited to 1 search per ip every 50 seconds, iirc) edit: emuforums and vba-m forum went "server busy" 8 minutes ago exactly (11 minutes after adding this post, since it got automerged) __________________ < My deviantART \|\| GENERALEMU \|\| Webcomics VBA-M \|\| @ES <(^_^)> <(^_^)> *Best BAN reasons ever* Last edited by Hard core Rikki; May 27th, 2008 at 13:45. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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