Forum slowing to a crawl?

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paulh177 · #1 Post by **paulh177** » Mon 31 Dec 2007, 21:28

I'm finding the forum slowing to a crawl and then stopping responding altogether for hours at a time over the past few days.
Pings to murga-linux.com are consistently around 145ms from me.

Is anyone else having the same problem ? (which would point to a problem at JM's hosting service)

paul

bobwrit · #2 Post by **bobwrit** » Mon 31 Dec 2007, 21:48

No, I'm not having that problem.

WhoDo · #3 Post by **WhoDo** » Mon 31 Dec 2007, 22:27

But I am ... and it seems to be happening more regularly these days. I checked who was online at the time and found no difference between the numbers of users online whether during the peak response periods or slow times.

It could be a server backup issue, however. If it were anything else I doubt the response would return to peak as it does.

#4 Post by **Pizzasgood** » Mon 31 Dec 2007, 23:04

I've only had problems maybe three times over the last several days. I know John was tweaking things a little (adding some extensions to the allowed-to-be-attached list), so that might have caused some of it.

Fossil · #5 Post by **Fossil** » Mon 31 Dec 2007, 23:47

paulh177.

I'm finding the forum slowing to a crawl and then stopping responding altogether for hours at a time over the past few days.

Perhaps it's just us in the UK, but the forum has slowed to almost a halt over the last 2-3 days. Probable cause, volume of Xmas/New Year traffic?
Anyway, Happy New Year!

Whoops! There it goes again...! I'm attempting to submit this, but getting the log-in screen and nothing else. My post has been rejected.
One hour later...... try again.

#6 Post by **Flash** » Tue 01 Jan 2008, 00:47

The forum was inaccessible for a few hours Sunday morning. Other than that, the last few days haven't seemed any worse to me than the last few weeks or months.

paulh177 · #7 Post by **paulh177** » Tue 01 Jan 2008, 18:51

Couldn't get a page a page to load for the past two hours ... that's around 16:40 - 18:40 UTC

8-bit · #8 Post by **8-bit** » Tue 01 Jan 2008, 19:01

Here in Oregon USA, I am also having problems with the forum seeming to slow down and also even connecting. I click on my bookmark in Seamonkey and no errors, just says connecting. But VERY SLOW.
Backed out a number of times today.
I hope this gets corrected so I will not have withdrawal from it.
We ALL seem to rely on the forum to keep in contact!

paulh177 · #9 Post by **paulh177** » Wed 02 Jan 2008, 21:37

Completely inaccessible from about 1700UTC to 2130UTC

Fossil · #10 Post by **Fossil** » Wed 02 Jan 2008, 23:07

A similar experience. From first attempt at 19.15 UTC to 22.31 UTC, totally dead, no response. Finally getting into the forum now, at 23.01 UTC.

raffy · #11 Post by **raffy** » Thu 03 Jan 2008, 10:53

Yes, that's about the same time here in Manila, when it was very slow.

geo909 · #12 Post by **geo909** » Thu 03 Jan 2008, 14:11

I had the same problem here in Greece.
Several times during the past few days..

Billwho? · #13 Post by **Billwho?** » Fri 04 Jan 2008, 07:46

Was bad here when I first tried at 8l18 UTC today. I tried to connect about six times and could only get as far as "waiting on mutga-linux.com". After waiting five minutes on my last attempt I tried my first ever ping with the following result.

sh-3.00# ping murga-linux.com
PING murga-linux.com (208.109.22.214): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=379.8 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=350.0 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=350.5 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=330.5 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=360.0 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=330.0 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=6 ttl=51 time=330.0 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=7 ttl=51 time=321.3 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=8 ttl=51 time=330.0 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=9 ttl=51 time=329.9 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=10 ttl=51 time=329.9 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=11 ttl=51 time=330.0 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=12 ttl=51 time=319.9 ms
64 bytes from 208.109.22.214: icmp_seq=13 ttl=51 time=340.0 ms

--- murga-linux.com ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 14 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 319.9/337.9/379.8 ms

Is this a good result or am I correct to think that I should have recieved lower numbers for the round trip on a 56K dial-up modem.

When the forum did eventually load I had not been logged in automatically like I should, but after logging in manually there had not been any posts made since my last visit. 24hrs earlier.

( yet a manual search

found quite a few )

jonyo · #14 Post by **jonyo** » Fri 04 Jan 2008, 13:52

WhoDo wrote:But I am ... and it seems to be happening more regularly these days.

Me too.

wingruntled · #15 Post by **wingruntled** » Fri 04 Jan 2008, 16:18

The board is getting pretty sluggish and sometimes not accessable.

WhoDo
Next time ping http://murga-linux.org/puppy/ or you will be pinging the wrong site.

paulh177 · #16 Post by **paulh177** » Fri 04 Jan 2008, 17:00

Be interesting to compare traceroutes at problem times.

I've been running traceroutes every time I run into the problem, and from here it seems as though there's been a problem on a segment on the abovenet network

If it were a forum or hosting problem I guess more people would have joined the thread (unless of course they just can't get on to do so

)

Having said that it's been ok today ...

#17 Post by **Pizzasgood** » Sat 05 Jan 2008, 03:53

wingruntled wrote:The board is getting pretty sluggish and sometimes not accessable.

WhoDo
Next time ping http://murga-linux.org/puppy/ or you will be pinging the wrong site.

....actually, it's http://murga-linux.com/puppy/

I had issues a couple times after I posted, but none over the last two or three days (though I only visited a couple times, so I could easily have missed them).

paulh177 · #18 Post by **paulh177** » Sat 05 Jan 2008, 09:40

I spoke too soon.
Posted my last and then couldn;t get on again all night until now. traceroutes all looked good when i couldn't get on so maybe that's a red herring !
but wherever the problem is, it's stopping me using the forum as i would like.
let's hope it "resolves itself" ...

jonyo · #19 Post by **jonyo** » Sat 05 Jan 2008, 17:19

paulh177 wrote:Having said that it's been ok today ...

I couldn't get on (same day) between ~ 2:00 to 4 but ok from about 6:00 onwards..
Not having any probs at the moment..

#20 Post by **Flash** » Sun 06 Jan 2008, 03:18

John Murga is aware that the forum has been having problems. He's working with the ISP.

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