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My cookie keeps getting trashed.
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:53 pm
by Märk
I have to log in almost every time I visit here, even when I have 'Log me in automatically' checked. I'm pretty certain it's not a problem on my end, all my other bookmarks (webmail, etc) keep my login active just fine, it's just the SF forums. Also, sometimes (quite often, actually) it takes almost a minute for the page to come up, and this is usually when my login problem happens.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:05 pm
by fluffy
phpBB is a pile of crap.
Re: My cookie keeps getting trashed.
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:41 pm
by Caravan Ray
Märk wrote:I have to log in almost every time I visit here, even when I have 'Log me in automatically' checked. I'm pretty certain it's not a problem on my end, all my other bookmarks (webmail, etc) keep my login active just fine, it's just the SF forums. Also, sometimes (quite often, actually) it takes almost a minute for the page to come up, and this is usually when my login problem happens.
Anyone else experiencing this?
yes
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:47 pm
by Lord of Oats
Yes. It also likes to violently log me out when I refresh the index. And it often won't mark topics as read, no matter how many times I look at them.
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:05 am
by melvin
Yes. And also the pages take forever - like up to a minute - to load.
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:08 am
by jb
sometimes it's snappy, like now. other times it's molasses. i have no idea how it can be fixed. wonder if it's a database issue.
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:10 am
by fluffy
Most likely a database server issue, if anything. Do you subscribe to dreamhoststatus.com? I highly recommend that you do. They have custom feeds for the news which impacts just you (which you can get from your panel).
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:10 am
by Paco Del Stinko
sometimes it's snappy, like now. other times it's molasses
Yes, and sometimes during the same log in. As soon as I was going to comment on how slow it was this morning, it took off flying.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:10 pm
by Märk
It's molasses again. And I got this a few minutes ago:
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Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@songfight.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:40 pm
by Reist
Yeah - I got that message too. And you're right - it's really slow right now.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:45 pm
by fluffy
Yeah, it's been happening intermittently. I have a very strong suspicion that the database server is unhappy. There might be something simple to speed things up, like fixing some of the indexes or something.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 6:49 pm
by fluffy
Oh, jeeze, all the tables are in MyISAM format. No freaking wonder.
[edit] Oh, Google says that maybe MyISAM is better for phpBB. I'll look into it more before I do anything foolish. Meanwhile I went ahead and optimized the tables, which may help for now.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:24 pm
by fluffy
So much for that. Ugh.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:34 pm
by Reist
Yeah - it was killing me all night ... so I watched a bunch of boy meets world, read a lot of Robinson Crusoe, and then came back ... seems fine now.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:43 am
by fluffy
Yeah, I converted the database to use InnoDB (which is supposed to be better for highly-concurrent web apps like forums) and it seems a lot more responsive now. I think the phpBB people who say MyISAM (which is optimized for apps without a lot of concurrent reading and writing) is better are full of shit.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:59 pm
by Märk
Thanks, fluffy. It seems to be working really good now. (fingers crossed)
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:47 pm
by Reist
This is the best it's worked for me for a long time. Thanks to Fluffy!