Accessing Computer Mechanics Website?

[Roman]

Suddenly for the last few days it takes a long time (about 40-45 seconds) to get on here. It makes no difference which browser I use. Other websites load normally. Anyone else having this problem?

[Bogie]

Nope, works fine here.

Using Rogers Extreme, Barrie, ON

[debbie]

Yes.... I've noticed it too.

[Swordfish]

I've noticed that as well seems to 'Hang' for about 30 or 40 seconds before it loads some forums like the Watercooler won't load for me right away.

[Ken_ver_1_5]

I have encounter this as well from time to time in the last weeks
or so.

[Dr.Dan]

Yes, it comes and goes... most of the time it's fine, but you happen to click at just the right (wrong) time, it takes forever to load the page..

Status bar says: waiting for www.thecomputermechanics.com...

It's real fast right now though...

[Bluvertigo]

No issues here...

[Les Shaw]

Just optimised the database hope it helps

[Dr.Dan]

Thanks Les...

Now, can you do anything about the board clock going out?
It's already 3 minutes slow since it was reset last time

I hope you're not going to wait til it's 30 minutes slow again :(

[Les Shaw]

Time seems ok , I will keep a Eye on it ..

[Dr.Dan]

Nope, sorry, it's still slipping slowly south.. :(

Time of this post is 13:00:00 (atomic time)

[Roman]

Still slow for me at 1:00 PM.

[Les Shaw]

Finding it fast here ... loading quicker since the optimize

We will work on it ... always working on it :)

[Dr.Dan]

Pages were loading fine earlier, but it has quite the lag now.
Speed tests are fine... other websites are fine... just here at TCM... :rrg:

[Paul Stanway Jr]

OK for me right now, in Mississauga. :)

[Les Shaw]

I can remove some server tools , like Who's online that can slow it down

[Bogie]

Real fast for me ... almost instant

[debbie]

I can remove some server tools , like Who's online that can slow it downHow about cleaning out the shoutbox archive? It goes back to January 2006 and is of little value in the big scheme of things.

[Tess]

It's been fine for me all along, but debbie has a very good point.

The shoutbox archive is neither useful or necessary, if that can be done.

Total Shouts: 112,590

[T_Totler]

It's been fine for me all along, but debbie has a very good point.

The shoutbox archive is neither useful or necessary, if that can be done.

Total Shouts: 112,590
I second that motion Mr. Speaker :)

[Mouse]

Mr. Speaker denotes a representative democracy.

This is a monarchy. ;)

[T_Totler]

Mr. Speaker denotes a representative democracy.

This is a monarchy. ;)
lolol :d

[Tess]

Mr. Speaker denotes a representative democracy.

This is a monarchy. ;)

It can be less one if you like.

:lha:

[Les Shaw]

No a Dictatorship. or at least that is what President Deb tells me


Mr. Speaker denotes a representative democracy.

This is a monarchy. ;)

[spaminator]

the board does run slow, then again all the websites run slow. :(

[Mouse]

No a Dictatorship. or at least that is what President Deb tells me
Ah, das un Ubberfreau. (pigeon German) :vfw:

[Deb]

Yeah, pruning the shoutbox would have been a great idea if they hadda included the code :tch:

If we dump the table, ALL shouts go, we'd be starting fresh...

[Dr.Dan]

Isn't there any way to set the length of time the archive lasts... say 48 hours... or 7 days... or anything other than 'since the beginning'??

If the shoutbox needs to be cleared out totally to help improve performance, I say go for it... do it monthly if need be

It's no big deal... it's just the shoutbox... archiving past 48 hours is a waste of space..

Just my 2.5 cents ;)

[Mouse]

Get Paul to dump it on Sunday mornings while he's doing his Tech threads.

[Swordfish]

Yeah, pruning the shoutbox would have been a great idea if they hadda included the code :tch:

If we dump the table, ALL shouts go, we'd be starting fresh...


Then people would complain about their shout box post count :rolleyes:

[Mouse]

Not me.

It's just chatter anyway, with some good stuff thrown in just for relief.

Something to drink coffee, or something stronger, with.

[Dr.Dan]

Then people would complain about their shout box post count :rolleyes:
I can't speak for everyone, but I don't believe any of the top shouters really care about that... I sure don't..

[Tess]

Yeah, pruning the shoutbox would have been a great idea if they hadda included the code :tch:

If we dump the table, ALL shouts go, we'd be starting fresh...

Mayyyyyybe, if we talk to Nuke really really nice? ;) (j/k)

Seriously, no big loss to keep starting over, there's no valuable information to be lost.

[Les Shaw]

Not sure where people are having a issue , speed has been instant for me all morning .. we are always cleaning ..

But I am not seeing any speed issues

[Mouse]

The speed problem is when someone tries to edit a shout for spelling, content, etc.

Takes forever to load that page.

[Dr.Dan]

Not sure where people are having a issue , speed has been instant for me all morning .. we are always cleaning ..

But I am not seeing any speed issues
For me, I can click on a link and a thread opens usually right away... sometimes it's delayed by a few seconds (seems like forever) and the status bar says "waiting for www.thecomputermechanics.com..."

Sometimes, like if you go to the shoutbox archive, it takes 15 or more seconds for a page to load... every page...

[Nuke]

Deb, it's in the code... sorta. You just type a command in the shoutbox and POOF... all gone (ALL gone though). It seems the creator kind of rushed the shoutbox. Lots of bugs here and there. :)
You could also setup a script in the "Scheduled Tasks" section to prune shouts automatically that are e.g. greater than a week old. You can also run a MySQL query manually to delete all shouts that are older than e.g. a week if you don't want to kill everything.

EDIT: It is probably best to do it this way (I deleted the old commands I had below. Tim still has them quoted in his post :d) since you're running from within vB. That way you know it will work. Time obtained from my script here (the number will be different depending on when you run it): http://b0rkage.com/timenow.php

Here's a sample query you could run in the query section of vB that would delete stuff older than a week:

DELETE FROM tableprefix_shout WHERE s_time < 1147884201);
tableprefix being the prefix, if you set one up during installation. Otherwise it's just shout...


DELETE FROM shout WHERE s_time < 1147884201);

1147884201 is the time approximately one week ago... you can go back to that page to get newer numbers.

Oh yeah... if that deletes more shouts than expected don't come back and kill me. (Should be fine but I don't have anything to test with) You have been warned :d

[Mouse]

How can anyone this http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g158/MouseMeat/Smilies/ikesm.jpg young be so damn smart???

Love ya' kid. :d

[Tim]

Deb, it's in the code... sorta. You just type a command in the shoutbox and POOF... all gone (ALL gone). :)
You could also setup a script in the "Scheduled Tasks" section to prune shouts automatically that are e.g. greater than a week old. You can also run a MySQL query manually to delete all shouts that are older than e.g. a week if you don't want to kill everything.

Here's a sample query you could run in the query section that would delete stuff older than a week:

DELETE FROM tableprefix_shout WHERE s_time < (TIMENOW - (60 * 60 * 24 * 7));

Depending on how it will be parsed might also need to be like this (but I highly doubt it):

"DELETE FROM tableprefix_shout WHERE s_time <" . (TIMENOW - (60 * 60 * 24 * 7));

tableprefix being the prefix, if you set one up during installation. Otherwise it's just shout...


DELETE FROM shout WHERE s_time < (TIMENOW - (60 * 60 * 24 * 7));
Oh yeah... if that deletes more shouts than expected don't come back and kill me. (Should be fine but I don't have anything to test with) You have been warned :d

sure hope you can't just type mySQL commands into shout, might want to plug that real fast, or keep the prefix a big secret.

[Nuke]

Oh no you can't type that in to the shoutbox of course. Harmless to know. :d

[Mouse]

I wasn't thinking anything.

HONEST!!

[Tim]

Oh no you can't type that in to the shoutbox of course. Harmless to know. :d
good. I recall a while back someone knew some script to enter that did something or other that opened up editing. I have no idea how the shout operates behind the scenes.

I find the shout loads real slow. Pruning it right down if it helps shouldn't matter it's all jibber anyways no real use saving.

[andyman]

Nuke it :)

[mander]

Nuke it :)

Agreed. my name might be among the top ten shouters but this isn't a competition to see who opens their yap the most. Shout count can be eliminated all together if you like. This way no one can complain as know one knows who has the most. Nuke the shouts and start fresh. Trimming the word association game in the water cooler might be anothe thing to look at. Do we really need to keep that many posts with just one word in them? Get out the broom and start sweeping. :d

[Just Doug1]

I've been getting a lot of these lately.

[T_Totler]

I too agree to starting fresh if it would help improve shoutbox speed performance.

Question: Is this the only compatible shoutbox program with this version of vB? :rrg:

[Nuke]

Pretty much Tremblett.

[T_Totler]

Pretty much Tremblett.
*Nuke's Summer Project: Design a New and Improved vB shoutbox from scratch* :d :d

[Just Doug1]

I think it's simpler than that. I think a lot of the problem are the ads. With a good number of the users running pop-up blockers and IP blockers. Could the ad server be giving time-outs back to the board, slowing it down?

[Shaker™]

...no complaint here to eliminating shout count...

[Swordfish]

I can't speak for everyone, but I don't believe any of the top shouters really care about that... I sure don't..

:)

[Custer]

I have to sit and dream of younger days while I wait for the next page of threads to materialize.:nne:

[Les Shaw]

running fine here we will keep plugging away , you keep dreaming and your dream will come true :)

[Big Ben]

CM site loads in 3-5 seconds for me, but new posts can take 3 or 4 minutes to load. Holdup seems to be /images1/animation/.gif,, am on dial-up.

[Mouse]

Dial-up. :eek:

And I thought I had it bad.

Try turning off avatars, sigs, and anything I have missed.

Just go into your User CP, under Options.

[Big Ben]

Thanks MouseMeat, much faster now.

[Mouse]

Welcome. :d

[Les Shaw]

We can work to help speed up on High speed , but to try and keep speedy on Dial up would be to hard

[Mouse]

As stated, I'm only a bit better on Bell Basic.

But I too just turned off sigs and avas, just as a test.

[mander]

Time seems ok , I will keep a Eye on it ..

According to shoutbox time and real time, seems we are 6 minutes slow again.

[mander]

Time seems ok , I will keep a Eye on it ..

To the powers of the board, the time is now 8 +or- minutes off. Good time for a shoutbox cleaning as well...as time permits of course. :d

[Mouse]

"Can I have two 'amens'??"

You bet.

:Fairy: (Deb, making it 'so'.)

[Dr.Dan]

Posting at 10:26:00

<-- Yet look at TCM's time... ;)

BTW, I keep my clock adjusted monthly with US atomic time server... and it's just updated

[Roman]

After approximately 55 days I am finally able to access this site in a reasonable amount of time. :) The long delay disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. Just thought I'd let you know.