It’s my arguing about the server itself–never mind the software. And if you have good software in something that isn’t up to par the server itself isn’t going to help the poor thing. It’s like trying to put XP Pro into a computer that can handle up to Windows 98 maybe----Or trying to run a game like HALO 2 on a computer with integrated graphics------but then again-----[:-^]
I was able to get on the forum pages itself but could not access the thread I wanted without getting an unhandled error message. I’m suspecting that there is an issue somewhere in the processing of requests or something along that line----it seems to drop out at a certain point as if there is not enough memory for the number of requests it gets-----mind,I may be barking up a tree in a completely different forest
I have simple laptop that I use for forum stuff–has 2 gig ram and Centrino duo. Gaming system has 16 gig ram with 750 Gb hard drive with 2 intel core 2 extreme QX9775’s. They sit on an Intel D5400XS board—and no, I do not use that for mere forum hopping![:-,][:P]–Oh BTW–as I’m saving to put in a two card ATi system, I’m just messing around with a GeForce GTX 280—[:P]
If y’uns lived up here in Northeast Ohio, the continuous weather front changes would kill all those “bugs.” [(-D] Whoops - took forever just for the smiley face to load. Dunno! The MR forums aren’t the only ones that have problems. Have worked with technology most of my working life and sometimes inspite of the best efforts and latest improvements, things take a poop. Part of that Murphy’s Law thing.
This is a unique forum. It hangs up a lot and I don’t think that MR is indifferent to the situation. However it is free and I can’t really complain too awful much about that. I don’t think it has a thing to do with what type computer you have, or what browser you run or what IP you’re using. It might however have something to do with what color your socks are. I wear white. However, I’m sure that they (MR) are not sitting back saying “oh well” to the situation. Looks like they were sold a program that couldn’t live up to the promises. I assume they are trying to work with, and probably running into problems with, the software company itself (just a guess). I hope that they get the problems fixed or get their money back and try another one. I’m sure if they do they will be checking it out more in depth. In the mean time I’m gonna go with PC’s suggestion and let them work it out.
Before we got the customized “oops” message, you got .net error messages that actually told in pretty clear terms where the problem was at that time - too many timeouts while Kalmbach’s web server was waiting for data from their database server. Hard to remotely diagnose from a user perspective why responses from the database server was so slow.
But it may be a indication that processing old posts so they could be searchable from the new forum software also was extremely slow for months. Until Bergie and went back to pester his developers again. Then the developers suddenly had a major breakthrough, and it took just a few hours or a few days to process the old data - as it should have done in the first place.
We have also seen Bergie run around and close the long “social” threads with hundreds of posts, asking people to start new threads every months instead of having them grow too long.
My guess ? Main problem is likely in the way the application interacts with the database.
Probably would be a good idea to have a competent DBA (database admin) do a quality control on database queries and database design, so it is possible to get an idea if the probl
This morning an entirely different Error message showed up–one that said the Community Server could not access the site—A DBA could look into the entire system and make recommendations that might help in this case–I’d be suspecting a bunch of things could be worked on without too much being thrown at it—