Subtle changes, bugs and feedback

I know.

I'm breaking all of the URLs in an attempt to fix ones broken by a critical update yesterday.

I of course opt to do this during a peak time of day... but then, when else would I get to do it?

I think I've fixed the new issues and yesterdays issues.

But people should let me know if I haven't.

Wow.

Just made a really small change and the whole site feels snappier.

It does feel snappier for others right? Not just at my end?

agreed. does seem a little better...

Could just be illusion though? quiet second on the server?

I was using an uptime monitoring service that involved timing page response (as an early indicator of server load).

The servers have been stable for ages now (downtime has been me tweaking stuff), so I've disabled the client based uptime checking and opted for a server based one. Which means your browser no longer pings chartbeat with the page load time... hence, less for it to do.

Seems to me to be a greater speed benefit than I would've guessed though.

Which means your browser no longer pings chartbeat with the page load time... hence, less for it to do.

This annoyed the piss out of me (well, bit of an over reaction). 90% of the time when a page was loading and would stall for a couple of seconds it would be communicating with chartbeat.

That was mis-leading... usually it would be waiting for an image on a third party site... but as it would queue the chartbeat ping, leaving the connection open, until after the image was downloaded... it showed chartbeat in the status bar when actually it was usually image hosting that was taking time.

Ah. Well then. Ignore me.

when I go to the last page of any thread it wont show me the last page instead goes somewhere in the middle and I have no way of accessing the last page. Is this just me?

when I go to the last page of any thread it wont show me the last page instead goes somewhere in the middle and I have no way of accessing the last page. Is this just me?

Set your posts per page to be the forum default.

Hmm... I should just force this temporarily shouldn't I.

default is 50 afaik, in case you didn't know...

I think I've just set it for everyone.

Just added a fifth web server and fixed a few minor bugs. I'm particularly keen to resolve any issues with the new web server as soon as can be, so if you see issues uploading files that appear to be occasional, or anything that appears sporadic could you let me know.

The fifth web server wasn't critically needed, but traffic seems to be building up as the sun comes out and so this is just to keep things whizzy throughout the summer. I've managed to get most pages loading in 0.8 seconds and now want to keep it that way. It's only costing $40 per month as I'm opting for many small web servers and the money really goes into the database server and not the web servers (the single database server costs more than the five web servers).

is it me or is the forum running a little slowly at the moment?

One of the five servers was running a little hot. I've blown cold air on it and it should be fine now.

Nope, figured it out... database was thrashing a bit under the load.

Might need to add the slave back in.

VB (right, not getting his hands dirty) & hippy at work on the Server Farm...

meh - slow.

Took me a while to get those.

I think slave is a normal term. It just means something different from your usage.

"Master Slave relationship" common terminology with us white supremacist IT types...

In case things die later... this is what I've just done:
[code]
sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf

vm.swappiness = 10

sudo /sbin/sysctl -p
sudo /sbin/sysctl -a | grep swappiness

sudo reboot
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swappiness was 60.

fnck, that actually looks like me

I thought it was for a moment.