Damn, still getting occasional errors.
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We were awfully busy last night, what with Angel airing and Tim showing up. Could we have leftover open connections?
I'm still getting them more than occasionally. Have we heard anything from the hosting folk?
We were awfully busy last night, what with Angel airing and Tim showing up.
We really weren't all that busy -- Angel has about 140 messages since the post and watch began, and Tim's visit only led to about 80. We've had new eps that have led to 5 times as much traffic. And (without looking at numbers) it felt like a very slow day overall, what with people being chased away by the messages.
We were awfully busy last night
The errors started well before that.
As I reported in Burea, thinking I was here, I had a long spell in which I wasn't getting them-- but in the last fifteen minutes, I've had two.
I'm not sure whether to hope that ita finds something evil or not.
You know, I think we like to blame a spider because it's easy to find a bad guy in the problem. But that doesn't make it likely. Do we even have any reason to believe we've been spidered?
I'm wondering if we should close the board again to see if they go away, as we did last time it happened. Because they didn't, even with just the stompies posting.
Did we get slashdotted somewhere?
Actually, I think a spider is less and less likely as this goes on -- the fact that it's been doing this for 24 hours now, whereas a spider should clog things up (causing anything from slowness to the errors we're seeing to a clog big enough to cause suspension) while it crawls through all the lengths and then leave.
Ed, I know you said that you had error messages before the latest code change, but are you sure? I haven't been able to get through consistently enough to go hunting back in both bureau and BBaBB to check on the times those two things got mentioned.
http://www.buffistas.org/showthread.php?thread_id=32&post_id=5170
amy, I got an error message at 8:17 board time. ita didn't mention she'd changed the code until 9:58. Certainly she would've done it earlier than that, but I'm pretty sure I was still seeing the mangled title bar after I got the error.
I think Tuesday was a much busier day than yesterday. We put close to a thousand posts into Natter alone, and we weren't getting errors. Here's another thought. Did the expiration date on open connections get reset to default somehow, so that the connections aren't getting released in a timely fashion? IIRC, the last time this happened, it was right after the hosting service instituted some changes.