Site Traffic/July 4th

[bannination]

Anyone else having to log in every time they visit?

I'm on chrome.

You sure you're checking the "remember me" checkbox when signing in?

Yup.

Hm... well, this may sign everyone out.... but lemme try a couple things here.

LOL

Definitely signed me out, right in the middle of posting!

Achievement unlocked!

[Vrede too]

I have not been signed out.

[GoCubsGo]

I'm still getting signed out.

[neoplacebo]

My sign in is same as ever. Never been signed out by anyone but me. This thing uses Mozilla.

[bannination]

How is everything feeling today? We seem to be handling the full load that singapore and AI can throw at us now and yet still feel pretty responsive. At least that's what I'm seeing.


Damn, nevermind -- new level of load just came in after I posted that it's feeling slow. More tweaking needed.

[GoCubsGo]

How is everything feeling today? We seem to be handling the full load that singapore and AI can throw at us now and yet still feel pretty responsive. At least that's what I'm seeing.


Damn, nevermind -- new level of load just came in after I posted that it's feeling slow. More tweaking needed.

Yeah, slowed down some.

Cleared by browser history and it took care of my sign in problem.

[Vrede too]

How is everything feeling today? We seem to be handling the full load that singapore and AI can throw at us now and yet still feel pretty responsive. At least that's what I'm seeing.


Damn, nevermind -- new level of load just came in after I posted that it's feeling slow. More tweaking needed.

Intermittent slowness. Irony -
When I first tried to open your post:

Unable to connect

An error occurred during a connection to www.blueridgedebate.com.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the web.

Refresh opened your post.
When I tried to reply to your post:

General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Too many connections [1040]

An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.

Refresh:

Unable to connect

An error occurred during a connection to www.blueridgedebate.com.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the web.

"Try again" opened reply page.

[bannination]

How is everything feeling today? We seem to be handling the full load that singapore and AI can throw at us now and yet still feel pretty responsive. At least that's what I'm seeing.


Damn, nevermind -- new level of load just came in after I posted that it's feeling slow. More tweaking needed.

Intermittent slowness. Irony -
When I first tried to open your post:

Unable to connect

An error occurred during a connection to www.blueridgedebate.com.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the web.

Thanks, I know I can fix this just by banning all their IPs which I may have to go back and do ultimately, but this is giving me a good chance to try and tune the problem away. At least provided the problem doesn't piss anyone off so much it makes posting a pain the ass.

It's a fairly delicate balancing act, if I let the webserver immediately server any number of connections it wants, it can handle it, but the database server gets completely overwhelmed by them sending way of 100 requests per second so we slow down.

If I limit the amount of connections to the web server it queues things that can't be processed immediately so less load on the database server. However the webserver queue being backed up can also make it slow, but also it can make it faster because the database can answer more quickly and keep the queue to a minimum. So it's finding what the right maximums are in ever chaning conditions.

Right now the average request time is about 6000ms which is completly unacceptable. I've got some good monitoring going on now so I can see results closer to real time instead of using the force.

[bannination]

How is everything feeling today? We seem to be handling the full load that singapore and AI can throw at us now and yet still feel pretty responsive. At least that's what I'm seeing.


Damn, nevermind -- new level of load just came in after I posted that it's feeling slow. More tweaking needed.

Intermittent slowness. Irony -
When I first tried to open your post:

Unable to connect

An error occurred during a connection to www.blueridgedebate.com.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the web.

Thanks, I know I can fix this just by banning all their IPs which I may have to go back and do ultimately, but this is giving me a good chance to try and tune the problem away. At least provided the problem doesn't piss anyone off so much it makes posting a pain the ass.

It's a fairly delicate balancing act, if I let the webserver immediately server any number of connections it wants, it can handle it, but the database server gets completely overwhelmed by them sending way over 100 requests per second so we slow down. (It's be intersting to see how many requests per second they are actually trying to send us, but that would without a doubt run us out of CPU and memory).

If I limit the amount of connections to the web server it queues things that can't be processed immediately so less load on the database server. However the webserver queue being backed up can also make it slow, but also it can make it faster because the database can answer more quickly and keep the queue to a minimum. So it's finding what the right maximums are in ever chaning conditions.

Right now the average request time is about 6000ms which is completly unacceptable. I've got some good monitoring going on now so I can see results closer to real time instead of using the force.

[Vrede too]

What's up with posting and then quoting yourself? Another ironic glitch.

... It's a fairly delicate balancing act, if I let the webserver immediately server any number of connections it wants, it can handle it, but the database server gets completely overwhelmed by them sending way over 100 requests per second so we slow down. (It's be interesting to see how many requests per second they are actually trying to send us, but that would without a doubt run us out of CPU and memory)....

Maybe spam bots will bring on Judgement Day.

[bannination]

What's up with posting and then quoting yourself? Another ironic glitch.

... It's a fairly delicate balancing act, if I let the webserver immediately server any number of connections it wants, it can handle it, but the database server gets completely overwhelmed by them sending way over 100 requests per second so we slow down. (It's be interesting to see how many requests per second they are actually trying to send us, but that would without a doubt run us out of CPU and memory)....

Maybe spam bots will bring on Judgement Day.

More likely they bring out everyone's credit card to pay for larger servers.

I've heard that AI bots especially are knocking out smaller web sites at museums and research websites due to their load. (The AI bots also hit us, but at least they have the guts to identify themselves as AI bots).

I've done all the damage I can do this evening, I've rebanned some of the worst offenders and the response times have dropped to under 1/2 a second for now.

[GoCubsGo]

More likely they bring out everyone's credit card to pay for larger servers.

I've heard that AI bots especially are knocking out smaller web sites at museums and research websites due to their load. (The AI bots also hit us, but at least they have the guts to identify themselves as AI bots).

I've done all the damage I can do this evening, I've rebanned some of the worst offenders and the response times have dropped to under 1/2 a second for now.

LNF affected also?