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Grrr. Server a bit borked...

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Tom Coates

19:01 / 17.07.05

Sorry for the downtime this evening - the server appeared to crash. Here's the e-mail from the hosts:

The server had crashed due to high load. I have already restarted it, and
everything should be running by now. If you continue to have problems with
it, please feel free to let us know

I'm a bit cross about this to be honest - I mean we're the only people using the damn thing...

paranoidwriter waves hello

20:35 / 21.02.06

Tom, FYI: I think it just happened again. For about five minutes, I got those server error messages every time I refreshed Safari, then it told me it couldn't access the Barbelith URL. Just so you know.

Smoothly

23:07 / 09.03.06

Is it just me or is Barbelith awfully slow tonight? I was also getting the old SQL errors this afternoon. Is there a problem with our server? Could it have anything to do with the higher than average activity over the last few days?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:11 / 09.03.06

It's been very slow the last couple of days- this afternoon especially.

Shrug

23:14 / 09.03.06

It's been pretty msquly and slow for me lately too. I presumed it was my network. Maybe not though.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:32 / 09.03.06

No, we've had a bad attack of squirrels for the last day or two. More people logging on?

23:43 / 09.03.06

Well, there's been more board activity, I would certainly say.

Jack Denfeld

03:01 / 10.03.06

Thanks Tom. Coates rules!

astrojax69

00:12 / 16.03.06

i just got a lot of weird shit when i tried to open convo - tried in safari, firefox and netscape. but i can open other boards - obviously!

what gives? is it me? or is it memorex?

astrojax69

00:14 / 16.03.06

ooh, now head shop is gone twilight zone... but all other boards open up ok...

alas

00:28 / 16.03.06

Ah! I thought the slowness and constant stream of error messages were the result of some Mac demon. Well, hope it is all sorted and that it doesn't cause Tom too many headaches. (Thanks, Tom)

matthew.

02:22 / 16.03.06

Barbelith has been acting naughty. I got the error messages last night and the day before. Naughty messageboard. Behave.

astrojax69

02:54 / 16.03.06

ah... bueno, tom!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

08:13 / 17.03.06

I wonder if this is some special weirdness going on right now or whether a month or two back board activity was down and Barbelith really was dying and Nina's Feminism thread has been one of the main things responsible for a Barbe-resurgence?

semioticrobotic

17:41 / 03.04.06

Anyone having trouble today? It's terrible on my end.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

07:26 / 10.04.06

It seems to have been running slow since yesterday afternoon... for me at least.

Axolotl

18:20 / 10.04.06

I had quite a lot of trouble earlier in the evening, but I put it down to my shitty dial-up, until I opened another tab and got an instant response from another site.

Tom Coates

18:07 / 11.04.06

I really do wonder why this stuff happens, but to be honest, I suspect it's things out of my control that are responsible (ie. stuff happening on the server, or a particularly pernicious bot roaming around the place that pushes everything over the edge). Obviously keep me informed, and I'll do what I can about it.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

19:45 / 18.04.06

Has anyone else found Barbelith has been way worse than usual for our old nemesis the SQL error messages today?

Chiropteran

19:48 / 18.04.06

Yes, since maybe about 2pm EST.

P. Horus Rhacoid

19:56 / 18.04.06

Yeah same here, but around noonish today I think. I've been having problems for the last couple days, actually.

Spyder Todd 2008

20:37 / 18.04.06

Everything got really crazy for me for about 20 minutes a couple hours ago, if tht helps any.

Mourne Kransky

20:44 / 18.04.06

My squirrels have been haunting us all night, off and on. C"est la vie: ce sont mes écureils...

Ganesh

21:00 / 18.04.06

Annoying.

matthew.

15:56 / 19.04.06

The past hour for me has been SQLed up the wazoo.

sibyline, beating Qalyn to a Q

16:33 / 19.04.06

working fine for me, if a bit slow when i post... is that why nobody's posting today?

Tom Coates

18:17 / 19.04.06

I'll tell you what's happening, because I've figured it out finally! It's bloody spidering by Yahoo and Googlebots - happening at the same time and crippling the server! Grr! Grr! I'm going to do some tweaking to try and stop them hammering the site so hard.

matthew.

18:53 / 19.04.06

Yay. I chocolate Tom Coates.

The Falcon

16:50 / 24.04.06

Did the server go daft again, then? I see Legba's called Λέγβά, which looks like an error message, and Bizunth posted "Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/www/users/barbelit/barbelith/includes/init.txt on line 2

Warning: mysql_selectdb(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /usr/www/users/barbelit/barbelith/includes/init.txt on line 3

Warning: mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /usr/www/users/barbelit/barbelith/includes/db.txt on line 29 ", in the 'Games that mess with your head' thread, which may be an elaborate joke, I suppose.

The Falcon

16:51 / 24.04.06

Hmm, that's funny, the Greek script didn't show on posts for me.

The Falcon

16:54 / 24.04.06

Don't mind me.