I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.

Angel ,'Chosen'


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§ ita § - Oct 16, 2003 6:43:11 am PDT #5241 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Consuela - Oct 16, 2003 7:09:05 am PDT #5242 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I just got an error, and it wasn't even associated with posting, just clicking on a thread to read it.


Consuela - Oct 16, 2003 7:09:43 am PDT #5243 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

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?


Dana - Oct 16, 2003 7:18:12 am PDT #5244 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

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.


Theodosia - Oct 16, 2003 7:19:46 am PDT #5245 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

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?


Cass - Oct 16, 2003 7:48:10 am PDT #5246 of 10000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I'm wondering the same thing as Theodosia...

Getting errors, reloading once or twice helps. But it also triples the hits.

Stompies?


§ ita § - Oct 16, 2003 8:50:11 am PDT #5247 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


DXMachina - Oct 16, 2003 8:56:57 am PDT #5248 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Huh.


Cass - Oct 16, 2003 8:57:19 am PDT #5249 of 10000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Here's some bafflment so far.
ponders

Huh. 168 requests at 9:58 and no errors...

Thanks ita.

eta: odd. errors almost everytime but refreshing brings the page right up.

And x-post with DX.


Theodosia - Oct 16, 2003 9:00:57 am PDT #5250 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

Strange -- I just got like, ten clicks of "new" or "next" without any errors, and then errored out like three times in a row. Whatever was happening went away for a little bit, and then was back.