Sluggish CS.com

[Mytical]

Is it just me, or today from about 4:00pm est on was cs.com really sluggish? (3/27/2012). Each page would take forever to load..and replying to pms was a difficult process. I cleared out cookies (even entire history), tried different browsers (IE, Firefox, and Google Chrome) with the same result.

[Rapscallion]

CPU seems fine, traffic normal - we're assuming the data centre is having a brainfart. Hopefully it should clear itself shortly.

If it's not sorted by the time I'm up, I reckon we need to start asking questions.

Rapscallion

[ArcticChicken]

It's been sluggish for me on and off for a few days now (including right now), but I'd just assumed that my internet was acting wonky.

[Andara Bledin]

It's run fine for me lately until this last 20 minutes. Definitely sluggish.

^-.-^

[Rapscallion]

Aye, it's definitely spurty. All indications are that the CPU and traffic are at normal levels, so were it a DDOS or some sort of malware we'd see alterations in those. Logical option is the datacentre getting it's undies in a twist.

Rapscallion

[RealUnimportant]

Due to the way I access the web at work, every day is a fresh install as far as my browser is concerned. This means that dialogues we usually take for granted & dismiss once never to be seen again are always re-appearing as a constant reminder of how paranoid the web makes you...

I'm always having "are you sure you want to submit this data" popups every time I navigate to the forum or any major page there-in (multi-page threads are the only occassion it may not appear), and only on this forum; if I turn off Flash I also get plugin complaints, but if I leave it turned on there's no visible difference to the page so I'm not entire sure what Flash is being used for anyway... Oh, forgot to say - the one time I'd expect to get this popup but don't is when I submit posts!

Has something perhaps been snuck into the back-end code that could be accounting for the sluggishness?

[Racket_Man]

for the last couple of weeks or so I have been getting non-responce messages when accessing CS. It ALWAYS does this at EXACTLY 3am my time which would be 8am GMT. the no responce thing only lasts for 1 or maybe 2 minutes, then I can view the board again. It always happens then I click to view a thread at 3am (or 8am GMT).

This does not seem to happen when I access the Fratching site at that time.

Any suggestions???

[Rapscallion]

Almost certainly backing up the database at that time, or some other server-smashing task. Pedersen would have a far better idea as to what it is precisely.

Rapscallion

[Pedersen]

Just checked, and it's more than just backing up the databases. It's backing up everything: Databases, avatars, custom stuff, everything.

The major issue we have is that the CS posts database is *huge*. And by huge, I mean that the posts, plus the index for it, is almost 1G of space *by itself*. The backup locks the database while it's in progress, which takes a minute or two, so it's a match for what you're seeing, and when.

I'll look to see if we can improve that somehow.