So what was the fix?

[HappyScrappy]

the board was slow. then it was upgraded and was REALLY slow.
then it magically got tolerable again...

so what ended up being the fix? taking out all the "sleep(58)" statements?

 

[Y_lifter]

I heard it was bad Muffler Bearings .....

 

[HumorMe]

Bump....Can somebody make this a sticky?

 

[WODIN]

One Word.... Roto Rooter.

 

[Y_lifter]

One Word.... Roto Rooter.

*That's the name.. And away your troubles down the drain..*

 

[the nature boy]

They deleted DOT's multi-terabyte collection of gay porn. It was taking up the cache memory.

 

[pushing_fe]

The web server was suppose to have a RAID array, but the network technician thought they said Raid Spray.

 

[HappyScrappy]

lol

and on a side note, the RAID array wouldn't increase performance, it would instead increase reliability

(although they tend to be on SCSSI drives, so if you were going to that after and IDE/EIDE, you would get more performance)

 

[Y_lifter]

They also had a Leak in the Bit Bucket...

 

[strong island]

Just spoke to Jorge.

George said he just poured some Triple Threat 3/60 right into a funnel located on the top of the server and it is running ridiculously fast.

He also said the server put on 27 pounds in the last 39 hours.

He will have the lab tests back tomorrow.

He also mentioned that he is having a sale on Triple Threat 3/60...sounds kind of fishy.

 

[jnuts]

How about adding a shitload of memory to the DB machine, maybe re-indexing the damn DB, or maybe putting the DB and webserver on different boxes? That's what I'd try.

I'm also curious what they did to fix it.

 

[john937]

Just spoke to Jorge.

George said he put poured some Triple Threat 3/60 right into a funnel located on the top of the server and it is running ridiculously fast.

He also said the server put on 27 pounds in the last 39 hours.

The miracle effectivness of carbohydrates....lol

 

[smallmovesal]

cocaine... oh, wait that's my fix.

 

[Pimp C]

I was wondering the same thing and emailed George about this the other day. He wrote back telling me that one of the servers had a malfunctioning keneuter valve they had to replece.

 

[strong island]

George says..."Its in there!!"

Triple Threat

Ingrediants: Whey protein isolate, maltodextrin, polydextrose, yellow #15, stevia, cocaine, alpha lipoic acid, people, creatine monohydtrate and George's secret shiznit(proprietary formula.)

 

[HappyScrappy]

How about adding a shitload of memory to the DB machine, maybe re-indexing the damn DB, or maybe putting the DB and webserver on different boxes? That's what I'd try.

I'm also curious what they did to fix it.

while I agree that this is a database driven site - I've posted before why I didn't think the issue was with the DB.
The only DB issue I would suspect was if it was on the same physical server as the web/app server.

if you look at the execution chain of what goes into each page load - the database is a very small part.

 

[Burning_Inside]

you goddamn sarcastic bastards.

 

[Warik]

the board was slow. then it was upgraded and was REALLY slow.
then it magically got tolerable again...

so what ended up being the fix? taking out all the "sleep(58)" statements?

Evidently the database was getting "constipated" and they fixed stuff and it now poops fine.

I am not making this up.

-Warik

 

[HappyScrappy]

Re: Re: So what was the fix?

Evidently the database was getting "constipated" and they fixed stuff and it now poops fine.

I am not making this up.

LOL

hmm - sounds like a threading issue in mySQL then... odd that it worked before - perhaps that there was a new install and someone skipped that step accidentally

 

[Y_lifter]

Yea, someone forgot a check box on the install wizard... bwahahah