| Due to our large downtime of late, I've been instructed to turn off a few heavy processing statistic features throughout the site. This will hopefully help the load issues we've been seeing lately. Until Crave can get around to looking at our hardware issues (next week), these statistic features will remain disabled. Stats disabled include: Signature updates and anime/manga stats Note: Your stats haven't disappeared, but they won't "update" until we turn these features back on. Sorry for the trouble. |
XinilJul 24, 2009 11:16 AM
| No problem, aslong as we can get MAL back up and running properly I can deal with it. |
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Perposterone said: /patpatI can't *starts drinking heavily* |
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| Whatever's needed for the site. Good luck. |
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| This Isn't helping the problem, that's for sure. |
| Yup. I guess we need more features off. How about "What's Being Watched", anime/manga top rank, some forum features/stats? |
Ii tenki desu ne... |
| I'd much rather have basic functionality back than any statistics. |
| Was wondering what was going on~ F5 |
HakuaJul 24, 2009 12:30 PM
| Are you sharing the same server as those Crave people? If so, might want to see if they can put you onto a different server all together. If you are on a different server, might want to see if they can put you onto a couple of server and have all your heavy hitters like those Signature updates and anime/manga stats updaters on one server to do all the processing and your normal somewhat static stuff on another server to help balance out the load. Just a few suggestions |
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| It sure has been crashing a lot lately. |
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| Perhaps another maintenance run/upgrade is due? Those feature are quite a valuable aspect of MAL in my opinion so it would be nice to get the back soon. Best of luck, K |
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| That explains why I struggled to get to the site earlier. I'm just happy that you kind of sorted out the problem for now. |
| I was wondering already what was wrong, but ok if it helps MAL I'll live with it ;P |
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Xinil said: Due to our large downtime of late, I've been instructed to turn off a few heavy processing statistic features throughout the site. This will hopefully help the load issues we've been seeing lately. Until Crave can get around to looking at our hardware issues (next week), these statistic features will remain disabled. Stats disabled include: Signature updates and anime/manga stats Note: Your stats haven't disappeared, but they won't "update" until we turn these features back on. Sorry for the trouble. So that is why, i was wondering why my MAL sig did not update. Thanks for the heads up on this one Xinil. ^_^ |
| wow I managed to change my sig just in time then! luckyy! hopefully MAL will be up and running perfectly again in no time :) |
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| What needs to be done, should be done and not simply ignored. Do what you have to and I'll still be happy. |
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| It is way better to have some features disabled for a few days than running into some problems in the future because of them. You guys do what you have to do, with the time it takes. The really important thing is that MAL will continue to run smoothly. As always, thanks for your hard work. |
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| Do what you have to do to have MAL running properly again. The time it takes to load this site sometimes is unbearable. |
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| *sigh* WWJD? |
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| i was wondering what the problem was its been like that for 2 days now:/ |
| all I'm saying is that this site would need something to help balance out the load so it won't over work the 1 and only server it's using. Need to get yourself another server for the database and services to run and another for the normal server side processing scripts (php, javascript, etc.). |
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| Scsa, we're definitely running MAL off of more than one server (4 to be exact). Please understand we're doing what we can. |
| Hmmm I see... Oh well... I won't change some manga status on while I guess XD.... So the sigs will freeze for a while.... Now that explains why my recently updated series sig was stall... Well hope this gets fixed as soon as possible.... Everything to make MAL better... keep on the good work dude! Signs, Green |
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Xinil said: Scsa, we're definitely running MAL off of more than one server (4 to be exact). Please understand we're doing what we can. Holy [censored], 4 servers already? Gez, MAL is growing faster then the servers can keep up o.O Edit: I thought MAL was running off of 2 servers at most currently.... Btw, not like I'm complaining or anything, just stating here, I could do without the stats and what not as long as we have our basic functions (searching for series, adding series, and being able to update it all through the web page like it is right now). And when you can get the services up doesn't matter to me, just take your time (rushing things causes more issues). |
scsa20Jul 24, 2009 3:54 PM
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| If the basic functions are available, then there are no problems at all.^^ |
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Avarance said: get rid of GD too, might be the cause |
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| Asdas. I see. |
DizzmauxJul 24, 2009 4:30 PM
| Keep up the good job! And thanks for the hard work! |
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| Are these images cached, or generated on-the-fly every time? If they are, and still causing this such heavy load, I'm impressed. |
| No Wonder it took me a long time to load MAL last week lol anyways its good to see i can load it faster xDD. Nice to see you guys are trying to fix it!!! Thanks!!! |
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| I have a suspicion that the extra load from the signature updates is because of all the people bombarding the RSS feeds with improperly configured php scripts in their signatures. Even though a handful of users are smart enough to configure rss and image caching, most scripts I see will download the feed from MAL every single time a forum page loads with their signature -- very not good. |
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Vizard said: It sure has been crashing a lot lately. Yeah, this explains it. I was wondering myself. Thanks for the info, Xinil! |
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saka said: Even though a handful of users are smart enough to configure rss and image caching, most scripts I see will download the feed from MAL every single time a forum page loads with their signature -- very not good. This I think is the case with my new sig (using Scud's script) which is a drag. My old sig (Zarin's script) would just update the sig every 10 mins IF something had changed, and still work if RSS (MAL) was down, the new one was down during all the crap yesterday, so seems to be polling it live. >.< |
| If it makes the site faster, yay!~ If it doesn't, boo~ |
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scsa20 said: all I'm saying is that this site would need something to help balance out the load so it won't over work the 1 and only server it's using. Need to get yourself another server for the database and services to run and another for the normal server side processing scripts (php, javascript, etc.). >server side >javascript Ohoho saka said: I have an idea: If someone's RSS feed is being loaded excessively, through their sigs, they have all of their updates display as Naruto and Boku no Pico. Good idea?I have a suspicion that the extra load from the signature updates is because of all the people bombarding the RSS feeds with improperly configured php scripts in their signatures. Even though a handful of users are smart enough to configure rss and image caching, most scripts I see will download the feed from MAL every single time a forum page loads with their signature -- very not good. Also, I remember how, back then, when I first joined, PHP sigs were used by people who knew what they were doing or was friends with Talon. |
llxwarbirdxllJul 24, 2009 7:56 PM
| Well it will be nerve whacking since i cant update my list status, but i can manage for a while. |
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llxwarbirdxll said: Also, I remember how, back then, when I first joined, PHP sigs were used by people who knew what they were doing or was friends with Talon. Those were good times. xD |
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TheDrunkenShadow said: I used to feel so special being one of the few who didn't have those ugly, uniform signatures that everyone else had. Good times, indeed.llxwarbirdxll said: Also, I remember how, back then, when I first joined, PHP sigs were used by people who knew what they were doing or was friends with Talon. Those were good times. xD |
llxwarbirdxll said: I used to feel so special being one of the few who didn't have those ugly, uniform signatures that everyone else had. Good times, indeed. I like my uniform signature. It isn't all slanted like a sign that's only half nailed up. |
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TheDrunkenShadow said: Of course, nowadays, PHP sigs are about as interesting and non-conformist as emos and punk rockers. Now I'm just a typical trendwhore.llxwarbirdxll said: I used to feel so special being one of the few who didn't have those ugly, uniform signatures that everyone else had. Good times, indeed. I like my uniform signature. It isn't all slanted like a sign that's only half nailed up. |
LovelongSought said: What needs to be done, should be done and not simply ignored. Do what you have to and I'll still be happy. |
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llxwarbirdxll said: I used to feel so special being one of the few who didn't have those ugly, uniform signatures that everyone else had. Good times, indeed. Heh, before I found out about the Scripted Signature club, it took me a while to figure out how it is done. Most of the time spent figuring out how to get the data (I didn't know of the RSS feeds, I even thought that PHP scripts are only used by people with access to the SQL server...) I cache the feed for 20 minutes (length of an anime episode) but no image caching. |
Volvagia356 said: Yeah, I didn't know until I saw the RSS feeds too. I'm not in the club though, since I can figure things out on my own, with the help of google and what-not. If I do need help, though, I ask around. And my feed is cached at one hour, I think.llxwarbirdxll said: I used to feel so special being one of the few who didn't have those ugly, uniform signatures that everyone else had. Good times, indeed. Heh, before I found out about the Scripted Signature club, it took me a while to figure out how it is done. Most of the time spent figuring out how to get the data (I didn't know of the RSS feeds, I even thought that PHP scripts are only used by people with access to the SQL server...) I cache the feed for 20 minutes (length of an anime episode) but no image caching. |
DraZeR said: Add an extra webserver and buy a loadbalancer. Assuming there is money for this. As for stats, they're a very nice addon, but an addon nonetheless. As long as the rest works I'm happy, althought I do hope, that this problem can be resolved. Good luck with it! |
| Damn... I totally don't like my representative updates. Haha... oh well, hopefully we get it back up soon. |
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| Thanks for the heads-up. Stats are nice, but functionality is much better. If it's getting the job done, then it works for me. :-) |
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