Starting earlier this evening, around 8 pm PDST, and continuing to this time, I notice very balky, intermittent and some completely unresponsive MFO actions. These types of errors also preceded the recent MFO site crash. Given that recent database failure I'm concerned that we may be building towards another failure episode.
I've also emailed this information to Chip and David.
OJ
Additional: In trying to access the "Discussions" page I just received an "Something has gone wrong. We've run into a problem and are unable to handle this request right now. Please check back in a little while" error message.
The second attempt went OK.
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The second attempt went OK.
I've also experienced the same issue intermittently starting several hours ago.
Thanks for notifying Chip & David!
Yep, at times it's slow to load comments and/or switch between threads. I also flagged a post for blatant commercial spam yesterday if that might be related somehow.
In the last MFO outage, posters were reporting site loading issues before an abrupt outage. So, the site managers and host should start looking at these symptoms.
all OK except page loads at top of page and not at pointer to new posts
ADDED On second thought, appears a few bugs are still present.
Yes, thank you. I also noticed the same behaviour.
There's a tendency when one sees something to assume someone else has already seen it and acted accordingly. Something to keep in mind when things happen.
Recently posted elsewhere (by Prof. Snowball?) and related to this and to investing, the post went something like this:
My last "life" as a radio tech for SF 911 probably triggers a response when I see something not acting normally, so I may be a bit more sensitive to that sort of thing than most.
When we were traveling my wife told me that while everyone else was looking at the scenery I was always observing the local communications infrastructure. And she was quite right.
(Actually she didn't say "communications infrastructure"... she said "wires and stuff".)
11:10- Again very slow to resolve, and some complete failures to resolve.
11:17- No sooner posted above when response time improved to normal. WTF?
This eventually appeared on my screen:
Contact your hosting provider; check for long-running processes or an overloaded web server.
Use status polling of large HTTP processes to avoid this error.
Run the long-running scripts on a grey-clouded subdomain.
Enterprise customers can increase the timeout setting globally or for specific requests using Cache Rules.
OJ
Also got one screen from Cloudfare saying that the MFO website was "unresponsive".
Sunday, 5:30AM Pacific, it got all better over the past few minutes...??
“After I posted in the inflation & other thread, the post seemed to disappear completely. So, I re-wrote and reposted. Then the original post appeared (5 minutes later) and so I deleted the first. Currently @Old_Joe’s excellent thread on prices shows me as the “last” post, while Anna has a post that follows mine. So, Anna should appear as “last”.”
Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get us!
"Of course they're trying to kill you, Yosarian. You're dropping bombs on them."
---Nately.
@hank.