iNow Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Quite frequently lately pages seem to be taking a long time to load, and often fail completely. It just cycles and cycles and cycles... Anyone else noticed performance issues with the SFN server lately? Is there anything that can be done to address it? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypervalent_iodine Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I've had this happen to me as well. It often takes for ever to load or just returns a 500 error and can take up to a half hour to go back to normal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 If it happens around the time you posted this thread, that's backups running. If it happens other times, there's something wrong I should fix. Do you know when you experience the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I had it happen on and off all day today, a bit yesterday during the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypervalent_iodine Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 It happened to me over the weekend a fair bit and last week as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPanic Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 I have not experienced any problems at all, but I may be online at different times than those who did have problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortal Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 It gave a Http 500 error when the site was accessed via mobile and it has slowed down a lot, especially the mobile version, at first it was fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Yes. http 500 error yesterday evening here (GMT+2). local hour 19.00 IIRC. What a relief! I don't have to throw my old laptop to the garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 Cap'n - I haven't been tracking the timing of these events. I usually just move on to other things and other sites and come back later. If/when it happens again, I'll take note and share it with you here. As others have shared, though... It's been pretty frequent since the software upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 60 seconds ago... 11:24pm CST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) 60 seconds ago... 11:24pm CST So that makes in my time...scratch scratch converting CST to UTC / GMT then adding (or substracting ?) my + 2.00 not making any mistake with pm (not "greek pm" that is Pro-Messeemeri - προ μεημερι = before midday=a.m.) What a mess. Time zone converter has 5 CST's. ------------- Stupid, the conversion is done by SFN. Just had to look at the post time. Edited February 1, 2013 by michel123456 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPanic Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Stupid, the conversion is done by SFN. Just had to look at the post time.We'll just say that your internal server was lagging a bit at 11:20 CET. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 We'll just say that your internal server was lagging a bit at 11:20 CET. Yes and no. I am EET not CET For the rest yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 60 seconds ago... 11:24pm CST So Since we know your location (under your avatar), and since we know the hour of your post (mentioned in the upper left corner), the 11.24pm CST is redundant. you could have posted "60 seconds ago' and that's enough information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted February 1, 2013 Author Share Posted February 1, 2013 Since we know your location (under your avatar), and since we know the hour of your post (mentioned in the upper left corner), the 11.24pm CST is redundant. you could have posted "60 seconds ago' and that's enough information. And yet instead I chose to convey the information to Cap'n in more than one way to make it as easy as possible for him to determine timing. What's your point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Science. I was thinking about something completely different. Nothing against your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted February 2, 2013 Author Share Posted February 2, 2013 Right now, and for at least the past five minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moth Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 I was having some 500 errors and slow response times after the upgrade, but chrome browser updated itself and I haven't had any more issues. I wonder if it could have been browser related? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 5 minutes from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 I was having some 500 errors and slow response times after the upgrade, but chrome browser updated itself and I haven't had any more issues. I wonder if it could have been browser related? 500 errors aren't browser related; only the server can give them. Right now, and for at least the past five minutes Backups. I wonder if I can make them less painful on the server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 500 errors aren't browser related; only the server can give them. Backups. I wonder if I can make them less painful on the server. That would be welcomed. It happened again just now. Correction: IS happening right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Looks like there's not much we can do about it. We may upgrade to a new server in a few months, in which case there are things we can do to limit the effect of backups (e.g. have a separate disk drive to write backups to), but until then we're stuck. I've made a couple changes but I don't know how much help they'll be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Looks like there's not much we can do about it. We may upgrade to a new server in a few months, in which case there are things we can do to limit the effect of backups (e.g. have a separate disk drive to write backups to), but until then we're stuck. I've made a couple changes but I don't know how much help they'll be. You are probably doing it already, but have you set the backups to be done when the member traffic is usually at its lowest point on average? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 You are probably doing it already, but have you set the backups to be done when the member traffic is usually at its lowest point on average? Good point. I had set the backup time based on some guesswork about when people are likely to be online, but I just compared that to the real statistics. The backups should now run a few hours later, when fewer members are online. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 Thanks for taking steps to try improving the situation, everyone. Appreciate it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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