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.
Thanks, Ed. I was frustrated by having a nagging thought and not being able to check one way or the other.
I definitely didn't change the code until after DX saw the errors.
As for spidering -- I'm downloading the logs right now. We'll see. Last time it definitely wasn't excessive usage.
I just got an error, and it wasn't even associated with posting, just clicking on a thread to read it.
And another one:
October 16, 2003, 9:09 am Consuela[45]: ERROR [2] mysql_connect(): User bufforg_phoenix has already more than 'max_user_connections' active connections line 78 of file /home/bufforg/public_html/classes/giles.php
There has been an error. It's of the type we call fatal. Please don't be scared. You're not the one that's going to die.
Okay, where the $$&#&(@#& are the developers?
If I understand correctly, it happens any time the site tries to make a connection to the database. Which means that sometimes it's when you try to pull posts to read, sometimes when you try to post, and sometimes when the site is trying to load thread information.
As long as we're not hurting anything (i.e. frelling up the indexes to the tables) by getting these errors, it's safe to continue using the board?
I'm wondering the same thing as Theodosia...
Getting errors, reloading once or twice helps. But it also triples the hits.
Stompies?
Cass, I don't think it's much of a muchness.
Here's some bafflment so far.
This graph shows the request pattern in the morning when DX and Fred Pete got their errors (8:17, board time). The next error doesn't pop up until 11:47 (Heather).
As you can see -- not an extreme amount of traffic. I'll go peek into exactly what sort of traffic it was then.
