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Problems using boards through linux.

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  • 11-08-2009 1:34pm
    #1
    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello developers,
    Just wondering has there been any developments over the past month that may have caused linux users to have problems whilst using boards. At work all the machines are linux operated and boards has worked perfectly ever since Pighead started using boards.

    About a month ago, pages started to load excruciatingly slowly and often don't load at all. If a page does load it takes about 90 seconds and it's rare for two pages to laod consecutively. Every other website works fine and it seems to be just boards which is why I'm thinking it's linux related. Anyway just wondering if you could shed any light on the problem.


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    Conor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Conor


    Pighead wrote: »
    Hello developers,
    Just wondering has there been any developments over the past month that may have caused linux users to have problems whilst using boards. At work all the machines are linux operated and boards has worked perfectly ever since Pighead started using boards.

    About a month ago, pages started to load excruciatingly slowly and often don't load at all. If a page does load it takes about 90 seconds and it's rare for two pages to laod consecutively. Every other website works fine and it seems to be just boards which is why I'm thinking it's linux related. Anyway just wondering if you could shed any light on the problem.

    Well, I use Linux as my main machine in the office and we don't have a preferential connection to the boards.ie machines.

    About a month ago, I changed the way we deal with spikes in traffic so perhaps one or more of your IP addresses is being throttled. I'll have a look at the IPs you post from and see if that's the case.


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    Conor
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    Ah, yes, I see now.

    The block of IPs you post from most of the time was one where someone had been spidering boards.ie from. It wasn't a smart spider either, just a fetch-every-page-as-fast-as-I-can one.

    I'll ease off on the throttling so hopefully you won't see any problems in the future (provided of course that whoever has written that spider has stopped hitting us or has learned how to correctly implement a spider).


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    Pighead
    Registered Users Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Yep, that's sorted it alright. Working fine now.
    Thanks for your help Conor!


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