Forum unstable again

[DrCoolZic]

Worked pretty fast when I started this morning and now it is very very slow again

[viking272]

Worked pretty fast when I started this morning and now it is very very slow again

Yes I couldn't get on for 15 mins a couple of hours ago, on my PC or Tapatalk

[DrCoolZic]

Very strange works great for reading one or two messages then for no reason not responsive for several minutes ...

[lp]

Very strange works great for reading one or two messages then for no reason not responsive for several minutes ...

Same here. It also forgets the auto login and forces re-entry of the password after it hangs.

[viking272]

The time in the UK is an hour ahead of the AF clock...

it's a forum setting, you have to go to your control panel and tick a box sating we are in British Summer Time ...

So the timezone settings doesn't have a British Summer Time +1 option.
My timezone has defaulted to GMT which is an hour behind so I've had to select a +1 Central European Time, as the nearest zone.
I guess at the end of October I'll have to change it back when the clocks change back to GMT.

[Hippy Dave]

You should monitor the site traffic. Maybe there is a bad robot, or someone making an internet backup with wget or httrack.

[spiny]

The time in the UK is an hour ahead of the AF clock...

it's a forum setting, you have to go to your control panel and tick a box sating we are in British Summer Time ...

So the timezone settings doesn't have a British Summer Time +1 option.
My timezone has defaulted to GMT which is an hour behind so I've had to select a +1 Central European Time, as the nearest zone.
I guess at the end of October I'll have to change it back when the clocks change back to GMT.

look closer ...

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[Dal]

I upped the php memory allocation about an hour ago (it was actually a bit too low). Can people report back here if they continue to have issues with the site being slow?

[catmando]

I upped the php memory allocation about an hour ago (it was actually a bit too low). Can people report back here if they continue to have issues with the site being slow?

Yep still slow to respond intermittently I'm afraid

[DrCoolZic]

I was about to say solved because it did work well for sometimes.
But few minutes ago I had to wait long time during a reply.
Note that once the system faill to respond in a web window if you try to access AF from another window it is stop also and suddenly they all come back at the same time?

[joska]

Today it has been almost unreachable for me. Had a 403-error too this morning.

[Dal]

Nope it's still not right, that's for sure.
I'm going to update Tapatalk (needs doing anyway), employ some auto blocking measures and reconfigure Apache to thread php (using mod-fcgid).

I'll scope it all out tonight as I'll need to update docs and reconfigure the other sites I have on the same box at the same time.

I'll likely be locking out access entirely while this work is undertaken.

My hunch is that this domain name has been targeted by a number of spam bots.

[dml]

I can't prove this, but it's almost like it is related to posts themselves. A few times it happened to me while I was writing a response to something, and found the forum locked up while submitting the response. Once the problem clears, I find a new message where I was about to post, and my message hasn't been submitted (2nd time this happened to me this week).

It's almost like every time somebody posts a new message, the forum goes to sleep for 2 minutes

But that could just be coincidence. After losing a couple of longish posts though, I can say it does pay to copy to clipboard before hitting submit

[Rajah Lone]

Same as dml. It occurs just after submitting a new post (less often when re-edit it).

[Maartau]

My hunch is that this domain name has been targeted by a number of spam bots.

I think so : I've searched infos about some bots on AF & few of them are useless...

[viking272]

Same as dml. It occurs just after submitting a new post (less often when re-edit it).

So the AF page on the server box wouldn't be available locally either if this was the case as it's something on the server rather than a routing issue of one sort or another?

A bit basic but we could correlate external ping tests to domain and host ip, plus local network tests if possible, linking to Forum post times.
If it's done overnight (to Europe) it will have less outages but easier to tie down similar times?

Just a few thoughts.

[viking272]

dupe

[viking272]

dupe

[Dal]

I've been looking at server logs and I think I see a pattern with regard to memory usage. So I made a couple of tweaks to the apache config, limiting the threading a bit more and lowering timeouts. Let's see how that goes. Again I'd appreciate any issues are reported here. So I'm really hoping for this thread to go quiet!!

[catmando]

I've been looking at server logs and I think I see a pattern with regard to memory usage. So I made a couple of tweaks to the apache config, limiting the threading a bit more and lowering timeouts. Let's see how that goes. Again I'd appreciate any issues are reported here. So I'm really hoping for this thread to go quiet!!

fingers crossed

[lp]

Seems better. Usually after work it would just hang for me, yesterday it didn't.

[joska]

Same here, it seems to be OK now. No problems so far today.

[exxos]

It seems to hang for me when I first come here after a few hours.

I just posted this and edited it and it was quick. Though a hour or so ago it just takes ages for the index page to come up, then it generally runs quick. Pretty strange really.

[Eero Tamminen]

Getting a download dialog for a 2MB attachment was *really* slow and viewing other pages blocked until I got the dialog. After that things were fast again.

[Dal]

Cheers - I'll check that out.