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Title: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 02, 2005, 03:39:11 pm
for the past few days on three different computers (work, home and school) the computer has been hanging up while in the process of posting using both IE and Firefox.  A few others mentioned it in a EE thread yesterday.

I'll have to exit out of the browser but when I return the boards the post has posted don't know what's going on just thought I'd mention it.

if you need any more details to solve it just ask.

**I think bones is having the same problem
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Bones on November 03, 2005, 05:13:36 am
Yeah this sounds exactly what is also happenning with me. After I post it just hangs indefinitely. I am posting a lot less at work these days so I don't have a fair comparison though....
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 03, 2005, 05:18:23 am
well I'm posting more on 3 different machines/connections and I'm noticing it

2 machine high speed connections
1 on dial up

it's happening pretty frequently at all hours.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Harry Potter on November 03, 2005, 10:03:34 am
too much traffic on EE most likely.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 03, 2005, 10:53:11 am
too much traffic on EE most likely.

I'm on while you two wacky austrailians are at work. You know there's only like 7 users and 12 guest average online at that time.....

happens pretty much all different hours for me...
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: sirwoogie on November 03, 2005, 12:58:14 pm
Is this still occuring? Many times last week I was doing some updating of the box which required some long compiles. This may have contributed to some of the delay. I haven't done a thing to this machine since Monday.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 03, 2005, 01:42:27 pm
happened last night while I was at work. It hung up on me so I closed my browser. when I came back to the boards and went to the forum I posted in the thread it showed that I was the last person that posted but it was marked with the blue new thing.

I'm thinking it was iaround 3 A.M. North Carolina time
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Harry Potter on November 03, 2005, 01:46:36 pm
It's been ok for the last few hours. Yesterday it was doing it constantly.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Stingray on November 04, 2005, 04:37:23 pm
I was getting this a lot the last few days. Still happening a little today, but not as much.

-S
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 04, 2005, 05:11:07 pm
it's been fine this afternoon
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Bones on November 04, 2005, 07:57:57 pm
I am now hassle free and lovely. No more problems here.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Harry Potter on November 07, 2005, 02:41:03 pm
Hanging again about 4 hours ago, but only for a few minutes.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Stingray on November 07, 2005, 03:44:08 pm
I've been getting this problem off and on today. More off than on, though. Going in the right direction.

-S
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Minwah on November 09, 2005, 09:49:36 am
This is happening to me too...I thought it was due to my new router/firewall but it happens at work now too.

Pretty annoying as it's hard to tell if the post has been entered without opening another browser window and checking...
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 09, 2005, 10:14:42 am
still happening to me at night
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Stingray on November 09, 2005, 12:41:44 pm
It's been timing out on me all morning today.

-S
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: sirwoogie on November 10, 2005, 12:44:32 am
Yeah, mysql has been a little cranky. It was driving up the I/O wait on the box. I just gave it a kick and seems to have calmed down a bit. We'll let it go for a day and see if it improves.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 10, 2005, 04:05:32 am
if now we'll take turns kicking it  ;D
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Stingray on November 10, 2005, 12:17:27 pm
Is the MySQL problem related to EE posts not being added to your post count, or is that more deliberate mischief on the part of our benevolent leader?

-S
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Harry Potter on November 10, 2005, 12:45:38 pm
Saint just wants to be loved. Send over Tommy.  ;D
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 10, 2005, 12:55:19 pm
now my counters broken
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Stingray on November 10, 2005, 02:07:30 pm
now my counters broken

It's not broken, it's differently capable.

-S
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 10, 2005, 02:20:56 pm
well then can I get an RMA for it?
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: sirwoogie on November 10, 2005, 04:27:39 pm
Heh, saint was messing around with the EE forum. He turned off "count this forum in post count"
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: saint on November 10, 2005, 05:34:56 pm
Shhhh, it's a secret! ;)
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: DrewKaree on November 21, 2005, 03:23:01 am
GOOD LORD this is frustrating!

Same shite is happening to me right now. 

I waited so long for my reply to be posted, I just copied it (y'know, for when it was gonna get lost) and hit refresh, and was told a new reply had been added....IT WAS MINE!

Came here to tell you about it, posted a reply in this very thread, got an error message about "you've already posted this", which I HADN'T, and I most definitely HADN'T double-clicked my mouse either.

GAH!
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: DrewKaree on November 21, 2005, 03:24:18 am
and YET AGAIN with the having to refresh the very post above this one!
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: DrewKaree on November 21, 2005, 03:25:50 am
Seriously, I'm NOT trying to increase a friggen post count here, but it's getting silly with the forever-loading reply!
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 21, 2005, 04:54:06 am
I've been having that problem all night also.....
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Harry Potter on November 21, 2005, 08:40:32 am
It seems to happen around 3am here. Heavy traffic because everyone logs on at the same time upon arrival at their cubicle perheaps?
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: saint on November 21, 2005, 08:58:22 am
test
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Bones on November 21, 2005, 09:00:46 am
test
It seems to have fixed itself in the last hour or so....
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: saint on November 21, 2005, 09:08:40 am
/me does what he always does when technical issues arise. I roll up my sleeves, sit down at my keyboard, crack open my O'Reilly Linux  administration book, and pull out the slip of paper in it with Woogie's email address on it.

test
It seems to have fixed itself in the last hour or so....
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: sirwoogie on November 21, 2005, 03:14:51 pm
3am EST is a daily server cleanup period. Most of the nightly items such as log custodian work, logwatch and other security cleanup, as well as a sync of the emerge system all happen around this time. I'll see if I can spread or speed up some of this. The high I/O is what is slowing down post and queries. I'm usually asleep by 3am so I never see it ;)

Code: [Select]
                  CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait     %idle
03:00:02          all      3.59      0.00      0.70      3.92     91.80
03:05:02          all      6.88      0.00      1.16     10.17     81.79
03:10:02          all      2.29      0.00      0.97     42.00     54.74
03:15:02          all      1.51      0.00      1.04     65.89     31.56
03:20:02          all      4.28      0.17      1.45     78.84     15.27
03:25:02          all      1.08      0.05      0.86     67.77     30.23
03:30:02          all      1.55      0.04      0.88     63.53     34.00
03:35:02          all      0.95      0.06      0.73     67.62     30.63
03:40:02          all      1.80      0.03      0.97     69.64     27.56
03:45:01          all      1.41      0.02      0.74     67.39     30.44
03:50:01          all      1.61      0.02      0.71     64.10     33.56
03:55:01          all      1.09      0.01      0.64     62.44     35.82
04:00:02          all      2.45      0.02      1.04     84.51     11.99
04:05:02          all      2.67      0.07      1.13     95.85      0.28
04:10:02          all      1.73      0.06      0.93     96.96      0.32
04:15:02          all      3.81      0.07      1.30     73.85     20.97
04:20:02          all      2.96      0.08      1.21     70.49     25.26
04:25:02          all      3.09      0.03      1.46     69.70     25.71
04:30:02          all      1.58      0.01      0.82     69.98     27.60
04:35:02          all      4.56      0.20      1.54     79.89     13.81
04:40:02          all      0.54      2.04      3.32     93.81      0.28
04:45:02          all      2.67      0.01      1.24     91.72      4.35
04:50:02          all      1.99      0.03      1.51     94.46      2.01
04:55:02          all      4.58      0.08      1.66     68.82     24.85
05:00:02          all      3.51      0.09      1.26     65.54     29.60
05:05:02          all      1.08      0.03      0.90     72.75     25.24
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05:15:02          all      4.07      0.01      1.14     63.19     31.58
05:20:02          all      1.98      0.05      1.13     71.08     25.76
05:25:02          all      4.06      0.14      2.38     79.84     13.58
05:30:02          all      2.42      0.09      1.52     94.85      1.11
05:35:02          all      4.58      0.09      1.54     72.54     21.25
05:40:02          all      3.19      0.09      1.31     58.56     36.85
05:45:02          all      2.44      0.07      1.13     58.08     38.28
05:50:02          all      2.67      0.04      0.77     44.24     52.28
05:55:02          all      5.31      0.00      1.34     30.26     63.08
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Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 21, 2005, 11:24:07 pm
It seems to happen around 3am here. Heavy traffic because everyone logs on at the same time upon arrival at their cubicle perheaps?


it seams like it does it at 3 AM North Carolina time too.....
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: sirwoogie on November 21, 2005, 11:39:50 pm
it seams like it does it at 3 AM North Carolina time too.....

3am EST == 3AM North Carolina time
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: saint on November 22, 2005, 04:08:24 am
Confirmed at 4 AM EST as well, delayed posting.  Is it just in the 3-4 AM EST time frame you guys are seeing problems?
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Bones on November 22, 2005, 07:28:25 am
Strange stuff happenning in the last hour. Lots of hang ups, database errors, posting delays and older threads not getting bumped after being posted into.

Not winging, just giving feedback in case it is wanted......
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: sirwoogie on November 22, 2005, 10:58:08 am
Thanks for all the info. I'm working to organize the nightly clean-up so it doesn't overwhelm the machine. This may take up to a week to complete, so please bear with us.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Harry Potter on November 22, 2005, 11:36:19 am
It seems to happen around 3am here. Heavy traffic because everyone logs on at the same time upon arrival at their cubicle perheaps?


it seams like it does it at 3 AM North Carolina time too.....
I was talking Aussie 3am, which is about 7am in your neck of the woods.
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 23, 2005, 05:29:23 am
it seams like it does it at 3 AM North Carolina time too.....

3am EST == 3AM North Carolina time

Then why am I usually 10 minutes behind everyone else
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Bones on November 23, 2005, 06:40:35 am
it seams like it does it at 3 AM North Carolina time too.....

3am EST == 3AM North Carolina time

Then why am I usually 10 minutes behind everyone else
Excessive teenage drugs?
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 23, 2005, 09:52:16 am
it seams like it does it at 3 AM North Carolina time too.....

3am EST == 3AM North Carolina time

Then why am I usually 10 minutes behind everyone else
Excessive teenage drugs?

hmmmm that could be a possibility
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: Harry Potter on November 23, 2005, 10:02:55 pm
Stick to adult drugs such as caffine
Title: Re: posting hang ups
Post by: missioncontrol on November 25, 2005, 04:14:31 pm
hanging again this time around 4:20 PM Friday