Intermittent timeouts

GasBandit · Mar 15, 2013

Since the switch to new hosting, I've been experiencing intermittent periods of a few minutes where halforums doesn't respond. I'm fairly certain it's not me, as other connections seem fine.

figmentPez · Mar 15, 2013

It's been happening to me too.

Bowielee · Mar 15, 2013

ditto

Azurephoenix · Mar 15, 2013

Same here.

Dave · Mar 15, 2013

Well. Hmm. Well.

Time to open a ticket to the host and see what he has to say. Can you tell me what kind of error you see? Does it say, "Waiting for..." in the bottom left corner? I'll look at the error logs and see if I can see anything.

Azurephoenix · Mar 15, 2013

I don't actually get an error... it just takes a minute or two for the site to load up.

GasBandit · Mar 15, 2013

Yeah, just standard firefox "no response" errors. It's happened maybe a half dozen times that I've noticed since the switch, and it always seems to clear itself up within 5 mins or so.

Dave · Mar 15, 2013

Nothing in the server logs, so it's not Xenforo. Last time this happened to me it was on the old site and was because of a bad Google ad. I'll still open a ticket, though.[DOUBLEPOST=1363386110][/DOUBLEPOST]Just happened to me as well.

Dave · Mar 15, 2013

Okay, doing some testing. I've removed the ads. Let's see how it runs now.

Azurephoenix · Mar 15, 2013

I can't brofist! Unacceptable!

Dave · Mar 15, 2013

What the what?!?

GasBandit · Mar 15, 2013

I can brofist fine, if I actually wanted to.

Jay · Mar 15, 2013

I haven't encountered any issues.

Dave · Mar 15, 2013

I'm getting an interesting hang message that I'm tracing back to the WoWHead java for WoW items.

Jay · Mar 15, 2013

I retract my comment. It timed out twice.

jwhouk · Apr 7, 2013

Still getting them on occasion, where it gives me the timeout error on FF.

figmentPez · Apr 16, 2013

Testing to see if I can post in this thread. I can't over in Video Game News and Miscellany.

Dave · Apr 16, 2013

Bug test.

Dave · Apr 16, 2013

xf_search_index shows as crashed. Again. This happened before. You try and post and it gives the error but it does post. I'm trying to repair the thing now.[DOUBLEPOST=1366134136][/DOUBLEPOST]And it looks like it repaired fine. Thanks, Chris, for letting me know!

figmentPez · Apr 16, 2013

Dave said:
You try and post and it gives the error but it does post.

I tried refreshing the thread, and I couldn't see my post. Even renavigating to the thread didn't have it show up. Then, when I returned later, every single attempt to post showed up as a multi-post spam.

Dave · Apr 16, 2013

figmentPez said:
I tried refreshing the thread, and I couldn't see my post. Even renavigating to the thread didn't have it show up. Then, when I returned later, every single attempt to post showed up as a multi-post spam.

Yup. Happened to me last time as well. That table is the search index. When it locks up, it prevents the data from hitting the XF search, so doing anything throws up the error. But the error is about the search, not the post. So the post actually hits, but it doesn't look like it. It's a beautiful thing.