4 GB of ram in the DB server now, yay

regi

(nt)

Nicccccccccce.

r3nu4l

Thank you kindly sir!

Good to see my subscription being put to good use

Matthewthebig

regi

wow... most relevant cat picture yet

Owen

Tom Dunne

regi wrote:

wow... most relevant cat picture yet

Wow.... boards is run off an IBM laptop? And you got 4 gigs into it?

*drool*

AlmightyCushion

tom dunne wrote:

Wow.... boards is run off an IBM laptop? And you got 4 gigs into it?

*drool*

How the hell do they fit a gerbil and a wheel into that laptop? It's amazing what they can do with technology these days.

Ruu_Old

Mmmm..RAAAAM. Nice one chaps.

unkel

Ram rulez! :cool:

I'm surprised there wasn't at least 4GB in it already. Was it only 2GB?

jhegarty

Still seems slow to me...

Could it be ?

Asok

Call tech support....

Thrill

Only the best ram for boards...

RoundyMooney

Good work guys.

I'm seeing a tangible increase in speed here (pages loading quicker and not hanging for a split second, or more-that kind of thing).

Shabadu

AlmightyCushion wrote:

How the hell do they fit a gerbil and a wheel into that laptop? It's amazing what they can do with technology these days.

Nanohamsters.

zAbbo

Cowbell++

Thrill

zabbo wrote:

Cowbell++

Cowbell++

Asiaprod

Wow, big difference, we are flying this morning.

Hagar

We had 8 gigs but 4 of them turned out to be M*D so they had to go...



I'd better go too...

DonkeyStyle \o/

r3nu4l wrote:

Good to see my subscription being put to good use

Same here... €5 well spent.

AlmightyCushion

Shabadu wrote:

Nanohamsters.

I thought they were years away from being released.

mike65

Are we uprated 'for sure' now?

Mike.

aidan_walsh

AlmightyCushion wrote:

I thought they were years away from being released.

They escaped. They used the wrong sized holes in the cage to keep them in.

regi

mike65 wrote:

Are we uprated 'for sure' now?

Mike.

What does that mean?

regi

Also, attachments moved to disk now - much more DB friendly

Dave!

Good work! I mean to those who posted the cat picture. Sorely needed.

Oh and ram is good I guess!

RoundyMooney

mike65 wrote:

Are we uprated 'for sure' now?

Mike.

Dheara, as you know Mike, I hate to see the place go down as much as anybody, but this was not an upgrade as such from what I gather. I believe the collective attachments were moved somewhere else to streamline things.

Once people know what's going on (as in the message on the homepage earlier), they don't seem to mind as much.

It's the unexplained outages that seem to frustrate people and give rise to the "Oh Bugger, it's down again" mindset.

I realise that a message on the homepage in some form is not always possible, but I think where it is, it should be utilised to keep people in the loop.

Just my 2% of a Euro...

regi

I fully agree with you actually.

Trouble is that the 'boards is down, and here's why' message is powered from the database, which has been causing problems of late.

I've put about 10-12 hours of my own spare time this week to ease the load on the database, and we've spent money to buy more RAM to help it through the really busy times. I think this will help and there's still plenty of other things for us to do, much of which will mean little interruptions to service, but hopefully ending up in a longer subsequent stable period.

Having said that, the little messages like 'is that it?' and 'oh god, down again' make it all so worth the effort.

RoundyMooney

regi wrote:

I fully agree with you actually.

Trouble is that the 'boards is down, and here's why' message is powered from the database, which has been causing problems of late.

It's a bit catch 22 alright, especially given that fixing a problem is a greater priority than putting up a message or redirect or summat that said problem has deemed necessary in the first place

regi wrote:

Having said that, the little messages like 'is that it?' and 'oh god, down again' make it all so worth the effort.

I can imagine.

However, coming on here and letting people know, as well as having the homepage message in the first instance should nip that in the bud, this time at least.

Thanks for keeping us in the loop Dan. I'm sure I'm not the only one to see a tangible improvement in the last day or two.

Redshift

Fair play to ya Dan, your efforts are very much appreciated. Anyone can give money to a cause but to give time is a much more valuable contribution.

sioda

And I see we have all the old how many viewing and whos on line back too great job guys.

Also great cat pics

zAbbo

regi wrote:

Having said that, the little messages like 'is that it?' and 'oh god, down again' make it all so worth the effort.

Is it in yet

boards has been very nippy recently, so kudos to the admins.

With the amount of visitors this site is pulling in, I'd imagine VB is more of limitation at this stage.

daiixi

danke regi cat for lots of hard works

Sparky

Hahaha
REGICAT

Asok

That kitty gives good ram.......

Redshift

Asok wrote:

That kitty gives good ram.......

Nothing like OwlCat

DonkeyStyle \o/

The nightly backup seems faster now too... back at ~3:30?! shocking stuff... wouldn't have expected it back until 3:40 at least.
Good stuff.

Tar.Aldarion

tom dunne wrote:

Wow.... boards is run off an IBM laptop? And you got 4 gigs into it?

*drool*

A thinkpad can do anything, I'm running the internet off one now and look how fast it is.

seamus

I really am shocked at the performance boost that moving the attachments and plugging in a little RAM can do.

/me makes note

Kudos on the hard work reginald. I know I wouldn't have liked spending my Friday slaving over a hot server.

regi

We changed a few more things than that, but these were the easier ones to explain. If anyone's curious, I'm sure we could explain in more detail what we did.

seamus

If you feel like boasting about your l33tness, then fire away

(I'd be interested)

oscarBravo

Dude, this site is like crawling with nerds. Of course we want to know!

Slutmonkey57b

regi wrote:

We changed a few more things than that, but these were the easier ones to explain. If anyone's curious, I'm sure we could explain in more detail what we did.

Did you recalibrate teh manifold?
Reverse polarity on the inductor array?
Initiate an inverse tachyon field?
Modulate a frequency resonance cascade?

Tom Dunne

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Did you recalibrate teh manifold?
Reverse polarity on the inductor array?
Initiate an inverse tachyon field?
Modulate a frequency resonance cascade?

No, silly, he twiddled the flux capacitor.

regi wrote:

We changed a few more things than that, but these were the easier ones to explain. If anyone's curious, I'm sure we could explain in more detail what we did.

The nerd in me would actually like to know.

seamus

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Did you recalibrate teh manifold?
Reverse polarity on the inductor array?
Initiate an inverse tachyon field?
Modulate a frequency resonance cascade?

Don't be silly.

He just tweaked the flux capacitor.

Tom Dunne

seamus wrote:

Don't be silly.

He just tweaked the flux capacitor.

:eek: Now that is just tooooooo freaky.

Must get me a life.

regi

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Did you recalibrate teh manifold?
Reverse polarity on the inductor array?
Initiate an inverse tachyon field?
Modulate a frequency resonance cascade?

Everything we learned in 1ba3 finally got useful :eek:

seamus

tom dunne wrote:

:eek: Now that is just tooooooo freaky.

:eek:
WHY ARE YOU STEELING MY BRANE~?!

Tom Dunne

seamus wrote:

:eek:
WHY ARE YOU STEELING MY BRANE~?!

I already has your brane, I is stealing your thoughts. LOL.

AlmightyCushion

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Did you recalibrate teh manifold?
Reverse polarity on the inductor array?
Initiate an inverse tachyon field?
Modulate a frequency resonance cascade?

Nah he just gave the server a good kick I'd actually love to know what you did as well. Damn my nerdiness.

markpb

I'm curious