All the cool kids get this message, right?
Huh. If I'm getting it, does that mean I'm cool?
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
amych - Sep 22, 2003 3:19:28 am PDT #5037 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
DXMachina - Sep 22, 2003 3:33:17 am PDT #5038 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
BTW, in case I didn't say it before, this is how it will be from now on. If we go over, we get that handy dandy, and yes annoying, error message. As opposed to flying way way over and getting yanked.
I actually can't take credit for it. It was as much of a surprise to me that they implemented it as it was to you guys.
Kristen, did they say when they implemented it? Because if they did it a while ago, and we've been fine til now, then it has to be external.
If it is external, can we track who's making all these extra connections?
Jon B. - Sep 22, 2003 3:48:02 am PDT #5039 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm looking at this page with the following URL:
http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=32&post_id=4991
The page is displaying only posts 4994, 4999, 5002, 5006, 5007, 5008, 5009, 5011, 5014, 5015, 5018, 5019, with 5019 being the last post.
Cindy - Sep 22, 2003 4:04:28 am PDT #5040 of 10000
Nobody
The page is displaying only posts 4994, 4999, 5002, 5006, 5007, 5008, 5009, 5011, 5014, 5015, 5018, 5019, with 5019 being the last post.
Many of us have tried to submit posts, only to have it fail during the "post message" process. The thought above, is that if it fails after the number is assigned, the post still doesn't get posted, but the board considers that number assigned.
Someone said it better upstream, Jon. I think it was Liese.
eta...
Take this post, and yours, for instance. I had to try to submit it four times before it was posted. The post number is 5025. Your post number is 5021.
DXMachina - Sep 22, 2003 4:04:54 am PDT #5041 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Jon, we've been getting "too many connections" errors. When the error hits while someone is trying to post, the database increments but doesn't record the post, so we're getting a lot of gaps.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 22, 2003 4:11:08 am PDT #5042 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Should we go to peoplesforum for awhile and see if it still happens?
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2003 4:32:41 am PDT #5043 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We really should have somewhere we can display a status message -- one like:
"We know about the max_connections message, please be aware there will be many skipped message numbers, working on it."
I've looked at the daily numbers, and we must have been hitting over our max_connections every damned moment. Here's the table for the month:
Hourly Statistics for September 2003
Hour Hits Files Pages KBytes Avg Total Avg Total Avg Total Avg Total
0549120891.21%38183871.29%388421.10%63581398851.19% 131669650.69%21146550.71%235100.67%3774830360.70% 223251040.51%16336010.55%214630.61%2860629150.53% 332671880.72%23351290.79%286320.83%4425973580.83% 4576126771.26%36981271.25%5111331.49%72341591561.35% 5778171281.71%490107981.66%7115752.07%95462100081.78% 61247274532.74%799175972.70%9921922.88%162903583743.04% 72067454844.54%1395306964.71%17338064.99%258885695334.83% 82904638926.37%1994438846.73%22148626.38%342197528176.38% 93306727527.26%2247494397.58%25656477.41%384558460207.17% 103393746577.45%2222488957.50%26558417.66%399498788887.45% 113636800027.98%2299505787.76%27660807.98%428219420717.98% 123470763537.61%2185480907.38%25856767.45%408558988107.62% 133598791747.90%2362519727.97%28562848.24%432599517008.06% 143074676366.75%1984436606.70%23752246.85%348007655956.49% 152579567455.66%1582348255.34%19342505.58%297056535065.54% 162226489834.89%1394306714.70%17237894.97%252355551764.70% 171898417584.16%1186260944.00%14732384.25%218444805764.07% 181851407284.06%1219268314.11%13630083.95%224694943174.19% 192097461354.60%1334293534.50%14030864.05%241975323334.51% 201862409784.09%1195262974.03%11826163.43%205284516083.83% 211502330503.30%986216953.33%10322692.98%171123764623.19% 221220268452.68%810178352.74%8719242.52%140533091632.62% 23859189141.89%588129411.98%5812801.68%105162313601.96%
§ ita § - Sep 22, 2003 4:33:46 am PDT #5044 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Leigh - Sep 22, 2003 4:43:57 am PDT #5045 of 10000
Nobody
I don't know whether this is at all relavent to the wonkiness (I'm getting the error message pretty regularly too), but I had the links to the message center disappear from the botton of the page, and the left-hand column. Refreshing my browser (I'm running Mozilla) didn't fix it, but shutting the thing down completely and restarting it caused the links to appear again--it might just be a quirk on my end, but I've never noticed that sort of thing happening before so I just thought I'd mention it.
DXMachina - Sep 22, 2003 4:45:45 am PDT #5046 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Leigh, it was probably just luck of the draw that they came back when you restarted, as opposed to refreshing.