Forum Outage - Aug. 16, 2004

[Evadman]

Hey, no fair! You can not select your own post as the answer!

 

[Ross Whitehead]

I have investigated the issue from early this evening, and believe the problem has been finally solved. It was the last piece of the puzzle... which made it all make sense.

 

[n0cmonkey]

This isn't funny.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Ross Whitehead
I have investigated the issue from early this evening, and believe the problem has been finally solved. It was the last piece of the puzzle... which made it all make sense.

I just started getting this message Ross:

Error
An error has occurred. If you wish to notify the administrator please click here.
To go back to the main forum page please click here.

Error:#
Error Executing Database Query. Data source not found.
The error occurred on line 36.

 

[Ross Whitehead]

Zim, thanx for the heads up... Dominic confirmed it was a hickup in some of the stuff he was enabling.

 

[Evadman]

I am still getting the same error as Zim. Running XP SP1, IE6. I get it when posting a new message, not though quick reply.

 

[Bonesdad]

Originally posted by: Beau
Also, would it be possible if lengthy outages like this occur that there could be a notice on the main anandtech page saying so? Some peeps on here rely on these forums as a means of communication for deals, support, etc.

agreed

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Ross Whitehead
I have investigated the issue from early this evening, and believe the problem has been finally solved. It was the last piece of the puzzle... which made it all make sense.

So what was the "big secret" behind JRun? Was it the butler that did it?

After reading one of the other 12-page threads about it, from back in April, I had a couple of ideas.

Hypothetical: When memory gets loaded-down, CPU usage spikes, due to garbage-collection routines. Jason mentioned that the machine(s) in question are running Windows 2000, and it has been reported, and documented in MS's KB, that sometimes, under heavy load, W2K can "lose" network connections, mysteriously. Now, I'm not exactly sure what the architecture is on AT's servers, but if the "JRun connector" is actually over a network link between the front-end web server boxes and the back-end database server cluster nodes, then perhaps this could be an issue?

That was my working idea, until I saw your post that you think that it is now solved. My intellectual curiousity is dying to know exactly what it was, that was "bugging" these forums thus far. Did a mouse make a nest in the PSU fan on the server or something? Someone intentionally DDoS'ing the forums, perhaps with a "web scraper"? OS bugs? Bad NIC? Aliens trying to abduct the AT forum database, because they want to learn more about the "Grand Nagus"?

 

[Beau]

forums...screaching to a standstill.... again.... is it the return of JRun?

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: L1FE
Is it just me or does trying to access forums.anandtech.com just give you a downloadable file (in firefox) or the source code in IE? Well glad I could get onto the forums through threads in google.

I noticed the same problem occurs when you click on the current sub-forum title up top (i.e. clicking on "Forum issues").

Just from surfing around a little it would appear to be on the shorter URLs.
This works fine:
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=34&entercat=y
and so does this:
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=34&flcache=1830983
But this does not:
http://forums.anandtech.com/categories.cfm?catid=34

This works fine:
http://forums.anandtech.com/index.cfm?nocookies=yes
But this does not:
http://forums.anandtech.com/

 

[loup garou]

Another hiccup a couple minutes ago?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: werk
Another hiccup a couple minutes ago?

Evidently.

 

[Jason Clark]

I'm back, phew. I've done some digging and the issues were many, from a server or two dropping out of the cluster (still investigating that), and a major database object lock that caused some serious blocking issues on the database. Everything is up and operating normall except for one forum server, which will be worked on this weekend. Now, sleep, 19 hours straight in a car is nuts.

Cheers

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: JasonClark
I'm back, phew. I've done some digging and the issues were many, from a server or two dropping out of the cluster (still investigating that), and a major database object lock that caused some serious blocking issues on the database. Everything is up and operating normall except for one forum server, which will be worked on this weekend. Now, sleep, 19 hours straight in a car is nuts.

Cheers

You're the man now dog :thumbsup: