How reliably does Neowin load?


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I just want to make sure that there's nothing wrong with my connection. I've tinkered with a few tcp values here and there, but nothing catastrophic.

Every so often, Neowin would take a while to load up. I hardly ever see any complaints posted here, so I thought that I'd ask. If it's client side, I should be able to figure it out. If it's not, at least I'll know that it's happening to others as well.

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Neowin slows to a crawl out of the blue for me sometimes, but that usually only lasts a few minutes. So yeah, I guess this isn't really a problem on your side.

My ISP is Cox in Las Vegas, so I doubt it's specific to a certain area/ISP.

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lately the system has been lagging, mainly because a lot of people are getting hip to the fact that they can catch up on the latest opinion, facts and updates about computer

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Up until recently, Neowin load times were very quick. I think Mr. Lamar has a point. I didn't take into account the Neowin-Latest-Updates-for-email/msn... service.

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:huh: Slows down on the east coast -- USA many times in the late morning. I think the closer you are to Amsterdam, the less problem there is.

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frankly neowin's server is the worst ive seen for a large site. it is very slow and quite often down.

:huh: uhhh no...

neowin get 7-8 million hits per day, do u know a good server that can handle that?

and its never down exept sometimes but not often

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I too have been having substantial slow-downs as well as load errors. It seems to come and go, but for example, this morning (8am to 9:20am pacific) has been sluggish at best.

I realize Neowin is totally popular, in large part I think because it is just such a great place to participate in, so I try to be patient and chill, simply content to appreciate the greatness with all its potential flaws. :)

If there was anything I could do to help diagnose/bug-hunt, I would gladly volunteer.

Keep on keepin' Neowin as a premier destination so dweebs like me can have a place to call home in the online forum world. (Y)

Thank you,

BK

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I wonder what Fark does for their servers and how comparable they are to Neowin's. Mainly because I know they get hammered like we do.

No problems with me right now on the server, but the odd time, yes it does slow to a crawl.

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frankly neowin's server is the worst ive seen for a large site. it is very slow and quite often down.

I agree.

It really is getting worse than DA for me these days. And DA is MUCH larger I'd think...

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:huh: Slows down on the east coast -- USA many times in the late morning. I think the closer you are to Amsterdam, the less problem there is.

ummm... the server is in Texas...

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It's mainly MySQL chewing up all the RAM and going deep into swap. There's 4GB of RAM and 2GB of swap and MySQL likes to chew it all up. I just restarted MySQL but this was what it was at beforehand:

Mem:  4063284k av, 4032988k used,   30296k free,       0k shrd,   19040k buff
                   3127032k actv,  387156k in_d,   67500k in_c
Swap: 2040212k av, 1520312k used,  519900k free                 1536232k cached

Restarted it and it's at this:

Mem:  4063284k av, 1875600k used, 2187684k free,       0k shrd,   22516k buff
                   1004204k actv,  376244k in_d,   67620k in_c
Swap: 2040212k av,   86468k used, 1953744k free                 1563964k cached

:s

There are some solutions coming down the pipeline, but the admins are working on getting them implemented properly.

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Can't you just tell MySQL to limit itself to a certain amount of memory? Pretty much every database server has a workload and memory governor, apparently just MySQL not.

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No, you get really fine grained control over the buffers and caches it uses and how large they can get. I think some of them are just too high for the site. I've already done some quick tweaks just now. Like all tuning, we just have to wait and see how they did :)

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frankly neowin's server is the worst ive seen for a large site. it is very slow and quite often down.

You can do better than 2x 2.8GHz Xeons, with 4gb of ram, 2x SCSI hd's, 2000gb of bandwidth and Dell DRAC?

I think not.

The server copes with around 400-1000 people on the forums at one time, and probably another 1000 or so on the front page. IMO the server handles it pretty well.

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