You joke, but I did actually do that with the server.
Server / forum slowdown issues
- Thread starter albula
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My approach would be "well, it was a good run while it lasted," so y'all are varsity in my book!
I wonder if it's somehow traffic related, as in there's a bottleneck somewhere.
I have had no problems yet, not even slowdowns, but I'm on this site most often when most of you guys are fast asleep, so maybe I've got the whole bandwidth all to my lonesome.
Another thing: have any of you tried changing your DNS servers to generic ones like 8.8.8.8 (Google) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare)? Worth a try to make sure your local ISP-provided DNS servers are not the culprit.
Wishing the dynamic trio all the best as they tackle the beast,
Kenneth
I have had no problems yet, not even slowdowns, but I'm on this site most often when most of you guys are fast asleep, so maybe I've got the whole bandwidth all to my lonesome.
Another thing: have any of you tried changing your DNS servers to generic ones like 8.8.8.8 (Google) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare)? Worth a try to make sure your local ISP-provided DNS servers are not the culprit.
Wishing the dynamic trio all the best as they tackle the beast,
Kenneth
I use the cloudflare DNS servers and still have the issue but it has not been nearly as bad for me the past couple days.
Forum users.
Here in Italy the Google and Cloudflare DNS servers just work better than the local ones, so I use them as default.
Not just the fact that they're faster at resolving (I know, I know, the difference is in milliseconds, but add up all those milliseconds...), but they don't have restrictions that local DNS servers have on certain websites.
Kenneth
Since many of us have participated in this forum for several years with the same configurations and have not previously experienced this recent issue, and are also not experiencing slowdowns with any other websites, wouldn't it be logical that the technical problems are associated with this website...and attempting to resolve this problem by altering DNS settings just for the PNWFF issue might be ill-advised?
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The issue has been found! Our server was having... Max children. Shoulda checked that first. Stupid us
(from the server logs)
[UID:1002][1069873] Reached max children process limit: 15, extra: 5, current: 20, busy: 20, please increase LSAPI_CHILDREN.
[UID:1002][1069873] Reached max children process limit: 15, extra: 5, current: 20, busy: 19, please increase LSAPI_CHILDREN.
yes, this is real
(from the server logs)
[UID:1002][1069873] Reached max children process limit: 15, extra: 5, current: 20, busy: 20, please increase LSAPI_CHILDREN.
[UID:1002][1069873] Reached max children process limit: 15, extra: 5, current: 20, busy: 19, please increase LSAPI_CHILDREN.
yes, this is real
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It would have been faster if it weren't for those meddling kids!
So which children are being cast off?
