Avoiding Multiple Posts during board lag

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-19 01:50pm

Actually, it seems it's anytime you post. I was trying to post a new topic and it sat and churned. I stopped it but for some reason it didn't come up like normal. *shrug*

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-19 02:00pm

*grumble* Seems to be doing it on most posts. I was trying to post a thread earlier, stopped it and it didn't show up. Tried to post this here and it never came up either. *sigh* Oh well.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-19 02:00pm

Friggin' fuckin' stupid ass second page bullshit again. Bah!

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-19 03:44pm

more lag. *sigh*

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-03-19 05:02pm

Many times I get off work, hit submit....

wait.....
wait.....

Open up "Solotaire" and play a few hands....

whole thing freezes for a second.

Read a book....

Ok, it's submitted my post/change and I haven't been dropped out.

Oh, and I am very good with Control copy, as I have serious drop out issues with my ISP.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-03-19 05:40pm

Sometimes when I have a timeout after pressing submit, I right-click on the IFRAME below ("Topic Review") and select reload. It only reloads the frame, and I can see if the post was made or not. Not sure about other browsers but it works in Mozilla.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-03-20 01:50am

After following the necessary instructions - submitting once after copying the post - and then checking (incluing a forum page reload) - to see if it had shown up.. Okay, it hasn't, so it isn't going to... Resubmit, etc... I still managed to get a triple post.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-20 12:49pm

More noontime choking.

Boba Fett · Post by **Boba Fett** » 2003-03-21 04:59am

I submited a message and waited for 2 minutes. Nothing happened it was still trying to submit my message.

Then I hit Back on the toolbar -I don't know it's exact name- and then my message was there.

The shroud of the dark side has fallen on the SD.net....

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-21 11:59am

Here we go again. Odd how it seems to be pretty much at the same times each day.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-03-24 08:14pm

AGH! Hate...lag....

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-24 08:27pm

yeah, board went down there for a while.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2003-03-24 09:55pm

Is there any pattern to the lag? I mean this is what I got this morning:

*Looks at three page thread*
*Goes back & accesses another thread*
LAG LAG LAG LAG
Me: WTF?
*Leaves page loading for 5 minutes*
STILL LAG LAG LAG LAG
Me: Grr...
*Goes to forum index*
LAG LAG LAG LAG
*Leaves page for an other five mins*
Loaded
Me: ??!!
*Goes to my posts*
Loaded OK
*Opens thread*
LAG LAG LAG LAG
*Posts this here*

It seems totally random.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-03-25 03:24pm

Is it me or has the board gone to crap again?

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-03-25 03:53pm

Indeed it hath.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-03-25 07:03pm

It turns out that the server it's on is also a Java application server, which eats up gobs of RAM and forces the OS to start swapping like crazy. When it expands it swap space, it virtually locks up, thus causing the site to go to shit. That's why it's fast most of the time (thanks to nuking the old search indexes) but it still goes completely dead periodically.

Lord MJ just added another 512MB of RAM to the machine, so let's hope it runs smoothly from now on. Otherwise, I'll have to give up on this and go to plan B, which is self-hosting.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2003-03-27 12:56am

Darth Wong wrote:It turns out that the server it's on is also a Java application server, which eats up gobs of RAM and forces the OS to start swapping like crazy. When it expands it swap space, it virtually locks up, thus causing the site to go to shit. That's why it's fast most of the time (thanks to nuking the old search indexes) but it still goes completely dead periodically.

Lord MJ just added another 512MB of RAM to the machine, so let's hope it runs smoothly from now on. Otherwise, I'll have to give up on this and go to plan B, which is self-hosting.

Java

What type of crap are they hosting(on the java VM)? Probable hosting a bunch of badly design java apps which dont care about using the gabbage collector properly.

Did I mention I dislike Java?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-03-27 09:40am

ggs wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:It turns out that the server it's on is also a Java application server, which eats up gobs of RAM and forces the OS to start swapping like crazy. When it expands it swap space, it virtually locks up, thus causing the site to go to shit. That's why it's fast most of the time (thanks to nuking the old search indexes) but it still goes completely dead periodically.

Lord MJ just added another 512MB of RAM to the machine, so let's hope it runs smoothly from now on. Otherwise, I'll have to give up on this and go to plan B, which is self-hosting.
Java
What type of crap are they hosting(on the java VM)? Probable hosting a bunch of badly design java apps which dont care about using the gabbage collector properly.

Did I mention I dislike Java?

Especially when a particularly badly-written Java kills ALL OF MY FUCKING MOZILLA WINDOWS WITHOUT ANY WARNING and without so much as a peep from the Talkback error-reporting tool. It's always those unnecessary fphover classes or some shit like that..

I'm running Moz 1.3 (not a beta) with JRE 1.41. Plus it takes a good 20 seconds to load. twenty seconds that ALL of my Mozzie windows are dead in the water. Oy...

Mods: Please split this

Lord MJ · Post by **Lord MJ** » 2003-03-27 09:49am

ggs wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:It turns out that the server it's on is also a Java application server, which eats up gobs of RAM and forces the OS to start swapping like crazy. When it expands it swap space, it virtually locks up, thus causing the site to go to shit. That's why it's fast most of the time (thanks to nuking the old search indexes) but it still goes completely dead periodically.

Lord MJ just added another 512MB of RAM to the machine, so let's hope it runs smoothly from now on. Otherwise, I'll have to give up on this and go to plan B, which is self-hosting.
Java
What type of crap are they hosting(on the java VM)? Probable hosting a bunch of badly design java apps which dont care about using the gabbage collector properly.

Did I mention I dislike Java?

It seems you know almost nothing about Server Side Java. Java, PHP, and Microsoft's .NOT are main languages of choice for server side development these days.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2003-03-27 11:10am

Lord MJ wrote:
ggs wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:It turns out that the server it's on is also a Java application server, which eats up gobs of RAM and forces the OS to start swapping like crazy. When it expands it swap space, it virtually locks up, thus causing the site to go to shit. That's why it's fast most of the time (thanks to nuking the old search indexes) but it still goes completely dead periodically.

Lord MJ just added another 512MB of RAM to the machine, so let's hope it runs smoothly from now on. Otherwise, I'll have to give up on this and go to plan B, which is self-hosting.
Java
What type of crap are they hosting(on the java VM)? Probable hosting a bunch of badly design java apps which dont care about using the garbage collector properly.

Did I mention I dislike Java?

It seems you know almost nothing about Server Side Java. Java, PHP, and Microsoft's .NOT are main languages of choice for server side development these days.

I'm aware they are the main languages od choice for server side development. Doesnt mean they perfectly designed(language or app).

Garbage collection is all very well and good(especially on a server), but poor understanding of how memory is allocated and not using the Garbage collective effectively makes for an app which requires lots more memory than it should, thus almost by definition a poorly design program.

Personally, I would serious doubt the effectiveness of an application if after adding 512mb of ram, it still consumes memory like there is no tomorrow(points to very bad use of memory). Some types of applications need huge of memory, but unless I'm very mistaken, they are normally not run on a webserver. Databases are normally design not to hold everything & the sink in memory.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-03-27 04:27pm

IMHO M$'s .NOT is, well, "NOT" worth dealing with. Keep the PHP and SS Java. The only problem I have with Java is when it crashes my browser as I said earlier. The longish load time doesn't bother me enough to the point where I avoid it at all costs, but it does put a bit of a crimp on my enjoyment of the Net.

Raoul Duke, Jr. · Post by **Raoul Duke, Jr.** » 2003-03-30 07:09pm

OFF-TOPIC POST (Sorry, kids)

KELLY, did you get the PM I sent you? My PMs don't seem to be working properly.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-04-07 08:38pm

Not a single lag in weeks! w00t!

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-10 02:52am

Since the board lag problem is more or less gone now, I'm destickying this thread.