Please Report Problems & Bugs Here

[Ridinshotgun]

It's been happening to me the last few days

[6x6in6]

Mostly fine.
Occasionally slow to load.
Once in awhile timed out.

It was worse on Monday for me.  Better since, but still hiccups from time to time.

[SniperDanWA]

Bearpaw posted just a few days ago that the site membership went over 12000 I believe and he kind of stated that the pressure on the server from that was being seen.  There is a contribution link too.

[grundy53]

slow

timed out

server not responding

[Boss .300 winmag]

slow

timed out

server not responding

The website is too busy to show the webpage
 HTTP 408/HTTP 409 
   What you can try:
     Refresh the page.
 
     Go back to the previous page.
 
     More information

This error (HTTP 408 Request Timeout or HTTP 409 Conflict) means that the server took too long to display the page or there were too many people requesting the same webpage.

For more information about HTTP errors, see Help.
 
More of the same.

[jyerxa]

Was having slow connection problems in the AM today. From Graham

[jrebel]

Super slow at times. Won't open the forum page other times.

I have gotten these prompts oftern

Incorrect table name 't open file: '

Under construction

etc.....

[bearpaw]

We've had fewer members online the last couple weeks but the server load has been close to max. We're not sure why, but we have been trying a few things to resolve the problem.

[whackmaster]

Thanks paw I am sure you will keeps us on the hunt 

[boneaddict]

I've always heard and read with SMF, that one of its weaknesses as related to this forum are some of the super threads, ones with lots of posts.  For some reason its the replies more than the content.   I wonder about some of our contest threads and some of our super threads(usually game threads) In the past I have split or purged some of them for that reason.  I haven't done it lately.    Its something to consider anyway.   I purged the recycle.  Another chore I used to do periodically.  I doubt that helps much.

[bearpaw]

I've always heard and read with SMF, that one of its weaknesses as related to this forum are some of the super threads, ones with lots of posts.  For some reason its the replies more than the content.   I wonder about some of our contest threads and some of our super threads(usually game threads) In the past I have split or purged some of them for that reason.  I haven't done it lately.    Its something to consider anyway.   I purged the recycle.  Another chore I used to do periodically.  I doubt that helps much.

I will talk to Matthew about the super threads, he is on the SMF team so he has a very good understanding of how SMF functions. He has been trying several restarts of various functions but we are still experiencing high user loads even though members haven't been as active the last couple weeks.

We have a huge number of topics, he couldn't believe the size of the files on this forum, but I don't want to lose good stories and data so I have tried to save everything. I'll see what he says.

[ghosthunter]

Slow loads on topics.
And twice busy server today. Around 2 pm.

[bearpaw]

Matthew thinks it's a problem in the log files, he's away from his computer now but will try to locate the problem later this evening. That is beyond my capability so we will have to wait for him to look at it.

[BOWHUNTER45]

same problem here ...takes about 2 minutes after I push the login botton for me to actually be logged in !

[Curly]

Here is the error message I get a lot lately:

Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.