how bout fixin the database on this forum :P

i noticed the database is a little messed up on the reply count.

how about fixing a lot of things on this forum? how about fixing your nick?

Man this sucks so much. Hello?!?! Can someone give us an update as to when this forum is going to be back in a functional state? At the moment its bordering on being un-usable.

and what the heck is with the gay nicname? >>> «§@NÐM@N»

Everytime I edit or make a post i get the error message



If it really does email them I think their inbox is getting rather full. I think in their aliases file you most likely would see this line

bit-bucket@developershed.com /dev/null

The following is an edited version of an e-mail we sent to one concerned forum member that sent us an e-mail about the forum troubles:

We had most of the problems solved last week. Most of them were due to
mysql taking up too much resources (memory, etc.) to keep up with our
growth. The FreeBSD / mysql threading system doesn't scale well, and we were
running out of memory.

So, we moved the MySQL server to a Linux box, and that solved all kinds of
problems - until what seemed to be hardware problems started popping up.
Unexplained reboots, lockups, kernel panics, etc. So we added another GB
of RAM to the original FreeBSD box, moved the DB back, and we're trying to
optimize the best we can. Forums searches appear to be out of the question
for now because of the size of the forums. (We are looking into ways of
fixing that - it looks doable.)

Today we're recompiling the FreeBSD kernel to allow for larger
applications. MySQL was hitting the kernel limit and choking this weekend.
Unfortunately, We'm not in a position where We can recompile the kernel and
reboot that box until tomorrow. We really don't know if/when the threading
will be an issue any more. More new hardware (linux) will be the answer if
that's the case.

We also ran a repair on the forums db's last night (as we found some tables
were corrupted) and that seemed to help immensely.

We are getting over 100k page impressions a day now (even with our
downtime), up from 40-50k/day back in January. The growth, as well as the
hardware problems have gotten ahead of us. We think we're getting closer to
a solution, but We really can't say for sure. Believe me, it's not
intentional. It's like being slash-dotted every day around here lately,
everything that can go wrong is going wrong.

We appreciate your patience, and again, sorry we don't follow up with you, our members,
more. We wish we had more time to dedicate to fixing this. We're pulling in a
FreeBSD expert (actually one of the owners of the company who tends to be very hands off) to help this week.

What about switching to another db? Couldn't this be a scalability problem of MySQL?

Possibly, yes. I think we have a much better my.cnf for our current situation now, and hopefully that will hold us for quite a while.

thx for the insight, and a.koepe & roninblade, bravo, i salute you for having enough braincells to talk sh*t on someone's nick.

Gay is using someone's nick as a point of insult whom you know nothing about. Pretty much juvenile bitches.

But i digress, this is the level of intellect/gayness one runs into at a public board. For being "senior members" you sure in hell don't act like it. But perhaps, that's how you became "senior members", with such intellectual posts as that garbage.

How old are y'all.... 12?

So then, how bout instead of letting this break out into an all out flame, stick to the freakin subject. Or am i to expect a 'gay' response as a comeback, perhaps more sh*t on the nick? Tell me you all aren't that predictable.

a bit touchy aren't you? i don't know about you, but your unique nick may be screwing with your number of posts - you've already made a few posts but it's still showing zero.

Cripes... it's snowing again. As if the 15 or 16 inches we got yesterday wasn't enough...

... Sorry.. I didn't really see this thread going anywhere anyway // LOL

You know you've been in front of the computer a little too long when your idea of a 'nice snack' is two bowls of Special K washed down with a Coors Light... blagh

I think Roninblade is right... you are a bit touchy

Each time i look at the nick it looks like you have written Condom, may I ask what its supposed to be or is it just a random jumble of symbols.

ps. I would like to assure you that i am much older than 12 years old.

ermmmm... it's sandman, i think. ctb is also right, this thread is going nowhere.

oh and sandman, or whatever your nick is, you're reply lack the maturity you seem to think you have.

Oh no, not all predictable, I think your vocabulary and grammar is much worse than your Username