Anyone finding boards slow tonight?

mike65

Just a quickie, the admins will moan if I post in Site Development. Seems very sluggish at times.

Karl Hungus

Yep.

Jeboa Safari

Taking a while to respond for me at times aswell

Celly Smunt

its been this way for a while

Ruu_Old

Taking a bit, disgraceful really! *taps foot* :mad:

antodeco

I love finding slow burds.

starbelgrade

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strokemyclover

The boards hamster fell off the wheel......on ya go little fella!

All fixed, it's well fast now

jd007

Haven't noticed anything really

MIRMIR82

Yes - really annoying:mad:

mink_man

"just a quickie"

you had to make is sexual didn't you!

It's >insert Irish Celeb here<'s fault. What a cnut.

starbelgrade

Boards must've switched over to the same server the CAO uses.

-Trek-

Ya, has timed out a couple of times now.

Must be the lads who were having fun with the CAO website earlier :P

Red Hand

Yes, I keep timing out. Might as well commit suicide right now...

alwaysadub

Yep,it's really slow and timing out. Or just loading the top of the page.
:mad:

It is very slow and chrome keeps popping up with "oops chrome could not find this link" or something

RolandIRL

yep. threads keep timing out
though it's prob my shít bb as well.

seensensee

ah, so it's not the 3 service this time.

Saibh

The hamsters don't like the new follow/unfollow buttons

chin_grin

Harneys ate-in' her way through the bandwidth. Guffaw.

Rubik.

Yeah, I keep getting timed out.

BluesBerry

Its very slow loading pages for me

Speedsie

Ditto, thought it was just me.....

fonecrusher1

The connection has timed out

The server at www.boards.ie is taking too long to respond.




Everyones trying to get their puns in at the same time.

Ann22

Yeah, mine's slow. Thought it was my laptop.

Elenxor

Yep..driving me mad all night!!!

starlit

Too many people posting at the same time. Timed out a few times for me and had to log in again.:(

Poor servers are protesting!

Jeboa Safari

bluewolf wrote: »

It is very slow and chrome keeps popping up with "oops chrome could not find this link" or something

getting this aswell

starlit

What about the poor servers!:eek:

W.Shakes-Beer

Im finding a lack of good juicy threads.

Its becoming a bit like the The Sun rag.

jimmycrackcorm

The leaving cert students got fed up with the cao site dos and decided that boards would be a much better bet

Hedman

It's Tubridy refreshing the thread about him every 2 seconds.

Jesus Wept

Just you.

Sharpshooter

mike65 wrote: »

Just a quickie, the admins will moan if I post in Site Development. Seems very sluggish at times.

Admin never moan.

Pass it on....


Moved from After Hours.

randylonghorn

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Admin never moan.

Even when they get lucky?

Oh, wait ... nvm! >_>


Srsly, though, was hanging a fair bit last night and it's doing it again this evening.

mike65

Yeh happening again, that its been in the evening when user numbers are lighter must indicate, something...

Conor

mike65 wrote: »

Yeh happening again, that its been in the evening when user numbers are lighter must indicate, something...

The slowness almost exactly tracks the number of page requests being made.

If it isn't load-related I'd be very surprised.

RolandIRL

yeah, happening to me as well.

though there's only ~6000 on boards this evening. wonder why it's slowing down lately?

Solitaire

As has been said in another thread the hamsters have an embarrassing allergy to the Follow button :pac:

If anything its even worse tonight!

mike65

6000 people at 10 pm?

[Does a quick refresh of front page]

Christ, whats going on, have you people got nowhere to go, anything to do?

RolandIRL

says he with the highest post count :P

Conor

whiteman19 wrote: »

though there's only ~6000 on boards this evening. wonder why it's slowing down lately?

The number of people on the site doesn't matter, the number of pages being fetched does. We could have 50,000 users online doing feck all and be much faster than if we had 5,000 users pounding the site.

At the moment, we're serving roughly 500 requests per second, of which roughy 75 are dynamic (and hence generate most of the load).

banshee_bones

A good few times tonight I have gotten "page timed out, the server at boards.ie is taking too long to respond" etc etc

RolandIRL

Conor wrote: »

The number of people on the site doesn't matter, the number of pages being fetched does. We could have 50,000 users online doing feck all and be much faster than if we had 5,000 users pounding the site.

At the moment, we're serving roughly 500 requests per second, of which roughy 75 are dynamic (and hence generate most of the load).

if you don't mind me asking, how would that compare with another time of the day (eg morning)?

Solitaire

Weird. Is this some kind of failed DDoS attempt or something??

ibarelycare

Ridiculously slow for me. Timing out nearly every time I try to load a new page :mad:

RolandIRL

Solitaire wrote: »

Weird. Is this some kind of failed DDoS attempt or something??

maybe by the same crowd who attacked the CAO website?

a lot of time-outs for me. only able to have one boards tab open at a time.

Sharpshooter

The Big Brother final might have something to do with it.

The thread in Reality TV is flying.

Conor

whiteman19 wrote: »

if you don't mind me asking, how would that compare with another time of the day (eg morning)?

I typically don't check the numbers unless it's particularly busy (usually trying to see are we getting unusual access patterns) so I can't give you any reasonable numbers.

The numbers I do record are more heavily processed than the ones I gave above, so it wouldn't be comparing like with like.

Solitaire wrote: »

Weird. Is this some kind of failed DDoS attempt or something??

I doubt it. Traffic patterns are normal, just (slightly) bigger. I'm sure someone was trying to DoS us, but if they were, they weren't the cause of any slowness.

We get DoS attempts all the time (either deliberate or just crappy spiders - it's hard to tell the difference) but they either get soaked up by our capacity or dropped at the firewall. It's a rare DoS attempt that even gets my attention, most are handled automatically.

whiteman19 wrote: »

maybe by the same crowd who attacked the CAO website?

Highly unlikely.

Butch Cassidy

I'm getting 503 errors "Service unavailable"