We apologize for the downtime.

[Beeblebrox.420]

I can tell. The boards are smokin' fast, now!

[Beeblebrox.420]

Well, that was probably the weirdest coincidence I have ever personally experienced. Heh.

[Beeblebrox.420]

Not just that. Look at the post times. Right down to the minute.

[robert42]

Its ok i forgive you

[Cannabis.com]

The server was swapping memory before - even using a little swap will cause noticeable slowness, and if swap usage is high, that will often cause the available memory to spiral down to zero leading to an out of memory condition.

The banner ads on the boards are inserted via a script called over port 80 (web) - a quick hack that was easy to setup originally when performance didn't matter much, but now with higher loads it's causing noticeable latency - once the banner call part is changed, the boards will be even faster.

Ron

I can tell. The boards are smokin' fast, now!

[Cannabis.com]

Some folks may have seen weird errors a little while ago - they were due to board config changes relating to the banners.

On an aside for the techies, VB has various obscure bugs and quirks related to using server-side-includes - PHP virtual doesn't behave the way one would expect in VB and thus PHP exec must be used instead; the original path should be restored following the exec even when using a full path to call it.

Ron

[D.Boone]

wow i ahve no idea wat any of that means but i hope you gettin all workin again!

[jadeius]

well you should be sorry

jk its ok

well that's pretty fuckin funny...i was wonderin the other day though...

[maryjanemama]

wow i ahve no idea wat any of that means but i hope you gettin all workin again!

Me neither.

But, I think Ron needs a spanking for the downtime. Hehe.