Same here........again (and again and again, etc.)

It's only the forum section that this is happening with. Was that made clear before? I just want to be sure to include any piece of information that will, hopefully, get this problem fixed ASAFP, because it's very aggravating/frustrating.

Just in case you need more anecdotal evidence as confirmation, the intermittent problems of the past month are still pretty prevalent over here too. There are bursts of time where everything is great and then long periods of sluggish behavior with a few timeouts mixed in here and there.

das

Could it be the database? I nose around the processlist list from time to time and see an awful lot of LOCKs.

Still experiencing the slowness from time to time, though as I said I am getting used to it (sorta nostalgic experience, reminds me of the old 14.4 dialup days). It happened yesterday morning at precisely 8am EST, then a few more times during the day. Only hit it once so far this morning.

Thanks for the updates. We'll continue to look into it.

Was the forum down for a bulk of time today? ~4-10 pst somewhere in there?

2 hrs tonight. Upstream issue/

Ok, at least now I know it wasn't internet issues on my end.

Still doing it.

Still aggravating.

What time do forum database backups occur?

Just did it again: 2:39 to 2:41 Eastern.

The forum seems to get stuck for a minute or two then return to normal. It happens several times a day, which is a bit worrisome because it feels like another server crash is coming.

The forum is so slow today, I'm having to shave between posts.

Just did it again: 4:09 to 4:11pm Eastern.

We're still working to figure out WHY it does this. So far we've tried a number of things but are coming up empty.

And again from 1:55 to 1:58pm Eastern. Thanks Geoff, we know you guys are trying, and we certainly aren't going away or anything.

This is new, I wasn't even able to get to the domain just now, for almost 3 minutes. Then I could, but slowly. Here is a traceroute:


C:\>tracert www.dvdtalk.com

Tracing route to www.dvdtalk.com [66.7.164.225]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 16 ms 17 ms 18 ms ....
2 16 ms <1 ms <1 ms .....
3 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms .....
4 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms .......
5 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms .......
6 7 ms 5 ms 5 ms .......
7 3 ms 3 ms 2 ms hcstlh2-gig02.tlh.hcs.net [204.194.39.230]
8 4 ms 8 ms 3 ms hcssrc1-vlan600.tlh.hcs.net [204.194.39.211]
9 9 ms 8 ms 8 ms 68.152.251.74
10 10 ms 11 ms 8 ms 205.152.187.90
11 24 ms 16 ms 16 ms 65.83.237.150
12 36 ms 33 ms 35 ms axr01msy-0-3-1.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.31]
13 42 ms 35 ms 38 ms axr00msy-1-2-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.42]
14 31 ms 31 ms 32 ms axr01asm-0-3-1.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.47]
15 45 ms 47 ms 32 ms 65.83.236.162
16 40 ms 35 ms 36 ms 65.83.237.242
17 43 ms 60 ms 39 ms drvlga1wcx2-pos15-0.wcg.net [64.200.127.61]
18 53 ms 48 ms 45 ms hstntx1wcx2-pos11-0.wcg.net [64.200.240.77]
19 48 ms 45 ms 43 ms hstntx1wcx3-pos9-0-oc48.wcg.net [65.77.93.202]
20 50 ms 48 ms 58 ms dllstx1wcx3-pos14-0-oc192.wcg.net [64.200.210.65
]
21 58 ms 53 ms 49 ms dllstx9lce1-pos2-0-oc48.wcg.net [64.200.105.66]

22 60 ms 56 ms 59 ms dllstx9lce1-yipes.wcg.net [64.200.226.118]
23 109 ms 111 ms 120 ms 66.7.164.66
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * 60 ms 65 ms kleinman.com [66.7.164.225]

Trace complete.

I could not get any access to the website since this morning Japan time 9 am.But just now I did and it's 16.00 pm already!

Slow and semi-responsive 1:20-1:23pm Eastern.

Yep, same here around the same time.

Most of the last hour has been pretty rough.

das

just rebooted the db, still sleuthing the source of the evil slowness

Same here, yet again.

Gettting it again now 2:30ish eastern.

not that it'll fix everything but I did do a rev upgrade on the forum software. Seems like it wasn't getting along with the version of MySql we're running.

There's also another major upgrade in the works which is in the release candidate phase, so we'll look at going to that as soon as it's released. Hopefully it'll help this phantom slowness problem.