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You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.

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Liese S. - Oct 16, 2003 12:50:27 pm PDT #5265 of 10000

"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Incidentally, whenever we need to connect to the database, it's the same bit of code that does the job. That's why the error message always points to that line. So no matter what you want to do (load headers, thread lists, posts; write new posts, edit, maintain your profile) it's all got to connect to the database, and it's all going to do it through that one bit of code.

This is not to contribute to the debugging process, but just to let people know it's probably not related to the specific activity you were doing at the time. Since it's a number of connections problem, it's more likely to do with how many things needed doing just at that moment, not what they were, precisely.

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Now to the problem. Huh. That's weird.

It's strange because it's so intermittent. If it never happened, then happened one Sunday night, I would go, hmm, spider. If it happened due to peak usage, I'd go, hmm, it's just our usage and we'll have to find a way to deal. If it happened due to feature usage, I'd look at that feature. If it happened all the time, constantly, I'd go, hmm, code.

But it's just intermittent. So I go, huh.

amyparker - Oct 16, 2003 5:07:22 pm PDT #5266 of 10000

You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.

Are we keeping track of browsers? I'm using Galeon and I've had Hell's own time getting in here today.

Jessica - Oct 16, 2003 6:14:35 pm PDT #5267 of 10000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

We seemed to have calmed down. [nevermind.]

Theodosia - Oct 16, 2003 7:09:43 pm PDT #5268 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"

Just got a couple more now. I'm using Opera 6 or 7, depending what machine I'm on.

Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 16, 2003 8:08:09 pm PDT #5269 of 10000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

IE 5.2 on Mac System 10.2.3 here, and I just ran into a couple myself.

RobertH - Oct 16, 2003 8:30:51 pm PDT #5270 of 10000

Disaffected college student

I don't get any errors clicking on Buffistas Home. That's been pretty consistent.

Sadly, I have gotten a couple of the errors loading the home page.

DXMachina - Oct 17, 2003 2:24:17 am PDT #5271 of 10000

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Still getting the error at 7:24 a.m. on the east coast. Man, the posting volume is just brutal this time of day.

juliana - Oct 17, 2003 4:44:05 am PDT #5272 of 10000

I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Man, the posting volume is just brutal this time of day.

Snerk.

I get the error message in Mozilla and IE, at completely random times of day, with random frequency. It would seem that it's not a browser issue.

However, that's all I've got in the way of mildly useful info, so I'ma go back to lurking now.....

Typo Boy - Oct 17, 2003 8:46:32 am PDT #5273 of 10000

Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Again, to repeat what has been said, it is unlikely to be browser specific. (That is this problem probably has nothing to do with what browser you are using.) And, as has also been said, it is unlikely to be specific to the activity you are doing. Whether you are reading a thread, posting or whatever should not affect it.

1) If it is a spider, then it has zero to do with regular user activity.

2) We see this happening during comparatively light activity - lighter than other times when it does not happen. This means that if it is not a spider, but in the code or host configuration, it must be some specific type of connection is causing a problem or not being released. At this point the code has been gone over pretty throughly, so it seems that spider is still the most likely, with host the second most probable, and obscure code problems still not impossible, but definitely third in probability.

DXMachina - Oct 17, 2003 8:59:40 am PDT #5274 of 10000

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Yeah, I agree with Gar. I don't know what we can about a spider, but we can ask if they've changed any settings on the server.

(After having first post eaten) Because bored now.

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