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.
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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.
Sophia Brooks - Sep 22, 2003 4:11:08 am PDT #5042 of 10000
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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
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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.
Jon B. - Sep 22, 2003 5:04:53 am PDT #5047 of 10000
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Sorry. I thought I wasn't skipping and skimming, but I guess I was. I saw posts about the error messages but not about skipped post numbers.
DXMachina - Sep 22, 2003 5:08:29 am PDT #5048 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Jon, FYI, ita just closed the board to everybody but stompies.
And I'm still getting frelling connection errors. See post number.
Jon B. - Sep 22, 2003 5:28:09 am PDT #5049 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Isn't there something where open connections linger for x minutes and then are automatically closed? How long is "x"?
DXMachina - Sep 22, 2003 5:33:20 am PDT #5050 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
ita checked. It's still 5 minutes. Which means there's no frelling way we should be having this problem now.
Trying to post for the fourth time...