I think I figured out what was happening with the reaaaally slow page loads. It was probably the server doing self-updates. It happened again just now for a couple of mins. I don't think it happens very often and is important for security purposes.
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It's a known issue with vbulletin. It's only a problem in popular long threads if many people all jump in at the same time - the slight delay in processing can then reach critical mass and pile up causing servers with low memory to spiral into oblivion due to I/O bottlenecking on the harddrive. Since I called it out, several other forums have started doing closing threads too. Since implementing, we haven't had a single forum outage due to bottlenecking. (We've had a few due to database corruption which I'm still trying to figure out, but that's completely different).
We have 1GB of ram, which would normally be plenty. For example, average server response time is 0.6s and average download time is 0.15s, so it's plenty fast enough in normal situations. For info, average page load (includes client browser page build time) is 2.4s. However, I'll be upgrading to 2GB soon.
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Originally posted by charlesr View PostIt's a known issue with vbulletin. It's only a problem in popular long threads if many people all jump in at the same time - the slight delay in processing can then reach critical mass and pile up causing servers with low memory to spiral into oblivion due to I/O bottlenecking on the harddrive. Since I called it out, several other forums have started doing closing threads too. Since implementing, we haven't had a single forum outage due to bottlenecking. (We've had a few due to database corruption which I'm still trying to figure out, but that's completely different).
We have 1GB of ram, which would normally be plenty. For example, average server response time is 0.6s and average download time is 0.15s, so it's plenty fast enough in normal situations. For info, average page load (includes client browser page build time) is 2.4s. However, I'll be upgrading to 2GB soon.
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We now have an upgraded server. Please post if you see any unusual issues.
Thanks to Nimbus hosting for doing this.
The following will be happening shortly:
vbulletin upgrade - possibly with a new classified area if it checks out in testing.
vbulletin style mods - new desktop theme in testing and if it's any good, will also check out the mobile style.
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