02-08-2002 11:11									#1
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In the last couple days it often takes ages to load a page and more often than not after waiting minutes I get this msg:

"The server is too busy at the moment or the maximum number of guests have been exceeded. Please try again in a few minutes. "


What's wrong? I understand what the msg says but shouldn't something be done against it?

So long...

	02-08-2002 12:15									#2
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quote: Warning: Too many connections in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40 Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40

My guess is the database is slowing down the whole thing during peak times. It was slow for me around this time yesterday too.

	02-08-2002 12:28									#3
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But when is peak time?

I mean I logged on at before 8 in morning! (German time) and still if there are so many users a solution must be found!

So long...

	02-08-2002 12:39									#4
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The Apolyton peak time is 24 hours per day. Minus the time it's off-line... (which isn't that often)

	02-08-2002 13:01									#5
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Not much problems here.
Now and then I get the 'too busy' warning. But then I try again 5 minutes later, and things are working fine again.

	02-08-2002 13:02									#6
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Hey, Pioneer, you live in Wupertal Germany?
I knew a girl from Wupertal 7 years ago! Any change you know her?

	02-08-2002 13:14									#7
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This is the message I got a few minutes ago!

"Warning: in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience."

I am wondering is it just me? If I press the refresh buttons a couple times I get in too but....

CyberShy, changes are that the girl knows me since I am ...ehemm... soooo popular!

	02-08-2002 13:16									#8
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This is the message I got a few minutes ago!

"Warning: in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/forums/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience."

I am wondering is it just me? If I press the refresh buttons a couple times I get in too but....

CyberShy, changes are that the girl knows me since I am ...ehemm... soooo popular!



PS: I am trying to post this and I keep getting this message:
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience"

"

	02-08-2002 13:26									#9
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ok, you're right. I couldn't get on the site as well.
But hey, now it's 15 minutes later, and things work fine

Just don't be such an addict! You can live without poly for 15 minutes, can't you?

Her name is Nicole. She's a blonde, must 25 by now.
Oh, and she has a sister named stefany, age 23 something. Does that ring a bell, mr. popular?
How many people live in Wuppertal?

	02-08-2002 13:38									#10
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There's actually peek times, aaglo. In GMT time the statistics show that the amount of visitors has been smallest at around 2-5 AM GMT. And most when evening is USA. Those are just my observations.

	02-08-2002 13:52									#11
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Rasbelin; I think that the peak is in your takapuoli

Okay, in another thread Sacagious Dolomite posted a 'graphical presentation' of posting frequency in this site...

	02-08-2002 13:58									#12
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quote: Originally posted by CyberShy ok, you're right. I couldn't get on the site as well. But hey, now it's 15 minutes later, and things work fine Just don't be such an addict! You can live without poly for 15 minutes, can't you? Her name is Nicole. She's a blonde, must 25 by now. Oh, and she has a sister named stefany, age 23 something. Does that ring a bell, mr. popular? How many people live in Wuppertal?

Sure I can live without Poly for a 15 min or even longer I am just worried that these might be signs of an " imminent danger" to Poly's computer/server.

There is still no official (i.e. mod) answer to this?! I guess it might not anything to worry about then!

CyberShy, Wuppertal is about 400k big and I don't thing I know the girls or the other way around!

	02-08-2002 15:11									#13
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400k, ok, that's more than I expected
I guess you won't know them in that case

	02-08-2002 21:19									#14
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Time to start using Oracle .

	02-08-2002 21:33									#15
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Time to start using Lotus Domino

	02-08-2002 22:06									#16
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aaglo,

that reminds me about this:

	02-08-2002 22:46									#17
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What is he saying? I'm curious. Something about Mingapulco is all I can understand.

	02-08-2002 23:21									#18
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quote: Originally posted by The Pioneer There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser. An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists. We apologise for any inconvenience.

I get this one all the time for the past few days, really annoying... (no I can't live without poly for 15 minutes )

What is amusing, though, is that the 'Technical Staff' is a link in the message, so you would suspect that it gives you an e-mail address. Instead it is just a "mailto:", so my e-mail client will open, with no address filled in... I guess Markos received a few too many messages from us

DeepO

	03-08-2002 04:53									#19
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that field is empty not to avoid mails from people, but to avoid the automatic mails.
a few minutes of the sql server being offline multiplied with a 100-200 people hiting reload can easily mean hundreds of mails....

	03-08-2002 05:27									#20
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Aha... it's workaround time! (Just deleting the link, or changing the message wouldn't be possible, presumably?) But, can't you set this address to whoever is responsible for the SQL server? (S)he might be tempted to do something about the problem... it really is happening a lot lately

DeepO

	03-08-2002 05:41									#21
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i'm responsible for the sql server
we have a dedicated server, therefore no tech support(except from network/connectivity stuff and when a hard-reboot is needed)

	03-08-2002 05:59									#22
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and without tech support, you can't find the problem? Or is it just that Apolyton is growing too big too fast in order to keep up?

DeepO

	03-08-2002 06:14									#23
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it's just that sometimes some sql calls get "stuck" and feel up the memory and the only way to get back to normal is by hand(killing the specific process or restarting the sql server)

	03-08-2002 06:21									#24
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In that case you have done a lot of process killing lately, I must have been locked out over 10 times in the past 2 days.

If it is unix or linux you're running, it should be able to set a trigger on a process, which will signal a kill once a certain amount of memory is taken. I don't know how to do it, but heard another (my)sql server geek explain it to me once... but as I'm a relatively n00bie on linux, I wasn't really paying attention. You know these server geeks can get carried away once they're talking about their 'baby'

DeepO

	03-08-2002 08:35									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Pavlov What is he saying? I'm curious. Something about Mingapulco is all I can understand.

Samma på svenska...

Herrarna har nu överskridit mitt tålamod! Packa era prylar; Mingapulco väntar er.

And in English...

You gentlemen have now wrecked too much my nerves! Pack your belongings; Mingapulco awaits you.

Abit like that, but as I'm more than , I can't come up with any better translations either.

	03-08-2002 12:00									#26
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Cheaper to buy another server than to use Oracle

	03-08-2002 18:56									#27
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Apolyton runs Red Hat Linux, which is really not the best server OS that I know of (FreeBSD! FreeBSD!)...

UR: Good point .

	03-08-2002 23:22									#28
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Arrgghhh... red caps! Why not Debian or something less commercial? BTW I assume they don't use the NSA Linux kernel. Yes, it's public.

	04-08-2002 00:02									#29
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Maybe he should try SQL Server.

	04-08-2002 01:01									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Rasbelin Arrgghhh... red caps! Why not Debian or something less commercial? BTW I assume they don't use the NSA Linux kernel. Yes, it's public.

Why is being commercial bad? Listen, it's open source, it's freely downloadable, and it still gives people jobs - not only for the development of Redhat's own programs, but of programs that are used all over the open-source community. Plus, although (as I already said) they're not the optimal distro for experienced sysadmins, they've (along the other commercial distros) done a great job of introducing Linux to scores of new users. The existence of commercial distros benefits everyone - the users get a simple, cheap OS, the makers of commercial distros get money (and since they didn't need to develop much to begin with, they win) and the Linux community of experienced users gets patches. Everybody wins.

This post brought to you by LightEning's mind, missing the points of posts completely ever since I got on Apolyton and advocating open-source ever since I got Debian.