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Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtime

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 00:35
by starkad
Hello people,

I've been looking into the depths of our server's logs, and I have noticed that our lags are accompanied by a sudden increase of connections to the server; I suspect this might be caused by some botter who does approx. 50 page calls at once (meaning, within a few hundred milliseconds).

I will have to rebuild some components of the server in order to make it cope with this kind of load peaks, and I'm planning to have a long server-work session this Wednesday, November 17th. During some phases of this maintenance work I will have to stop the server. Though I will try to keep the downtimes minimal, please expect them that day.

I apologize for the inconvenience this caused, we're working on it.

Have fun!

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 00:40
by Ziaheart
That is horrid! I hope it would be possible to get them off our site.

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 00:41
by kabutoottonin
So it wasn't me?
Hope you can get that botter off. Thanks for the hard work!

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 00:44
by AstaTheBroken
Ouch!

Here I thought it was just an issue with feeding Knuffel-that's where I usually notice the lag.

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 00:48
by Aylin
I have no idea what a botter is, but I hope that you can get rid of it soon! o.o

Thank you for your hard work, starkad! =)

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 00:54
by Agito
D:
oh dear, i hope they leave soon D:

ty for trying to fix this :)

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 00:59
by Anhlin
Thanks for the heads up. Though everyone will know what you mean, you wrote September 17th instead of November 17th ^^;

Hope that botter gets stopped D:

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 00:59
by ladyceres
I hope you are able to fix the problem. Thanks for the headup

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 01:32
by Heine_Ram
Hope it gets fixed soon. I have noticed all of the lag lately, but i just thought it was my computer.

Thanks Starkad, for all of your hard deticated work to this site:)

O, and is this problem the reason why some peoples avatars aren't showing up? Their avatars come up completely blacked out. I've noticed this since yesterday.

Re: Latest server lag problems - maintenance, maybe downtim

Posted: Nov 15th, '10, 01:33
by starkad
Anhlin wrote:Thanks for the heads up. Though everyone will know what you mean, you wrote September 17th instead of November 17th ^^;

Hope that botter gets stopped D:

Oops... Edited, thx for pointing out... :mcblush: