anyone else havin problems on site?

rd116

rd116

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almost every time i try to post after the "server update" it is saying that the server is too busy... anyone else having these problems?
 
yeah i'm getting the same thing now and then.
At one point it wouldn't connect and had the whole 'is your internet working' shit, but it was working.

i freaked, i thought RIU had been taken down :(
 
The sites working now. I heard a rumor that the site went down because aliens kidnapped all of rollitups mods and admins last night and replaced them with robots. Fuck.
 
Arrid said:
Howcome it's popping up?
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When the database gets smothered, RIU is unable to get any information in or out, so it shows you guys this message.

As we tweak the system for more speed, we're trying to push it a bit to find its boundaries, and find something that works well for you guys as well as for our server. Occasionally, we step over limits, and after a few hours, the database will start to give up a litte - and then a lot - hence the messages. There's a slight amount of trial and error, a large amount of maths, and a little bit of logic involved the tuning.

The end result should be that the server runs much more smoothly, meaning that we can (a) get RIU to your computers faster and (b) stave off purchasing upgrades. There were a few problems that took a couple of hours of solid number crunching to fix last night (upgrading the posts table to something that works better with large numbers of members), that we picked up and fixed now, rather than dealing with later (when that couple of hours could have extended to, say, a week) - and the gains seem to be here already.
 
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