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Matthew · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 2:36 pm

yea me too, maybe they have cut down the bandwidth or something.
I saw a message too when they were switching servers to gfxartist.com aswell, saying something that the gfxartist team are making the switch.

I wish they would inform us more here and letting us know what kind of changes they are making and when.

later

Chruser · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:37 pm

Strange. Mysql_connect() doesn't usually suffer from too many connections, unless there would be a DDoS attempt or something. The connections are dropped as soon as the page loads. There's another similar function, mysql_pconnect() (persistant connection), which, just as the name implies, keeps the connections active after the page loads, so the user won't have to log into the DB every time he wants to browse into a new page.

The good thing about this is clearly that the boards will load faster for that user, but the downside is that too many connections can simultaneously be made, causing problems that look a lot like this one.
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Sumaleth · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:04 pm

I'm guessing that there's a limit on how many people can connect to the database at any one time, and we've started to tip over that limit lately.

About the gfxartist thing -- Sijun forums and the gfxartist site has been hosted on the same server for the last year or so, and I'm guessing they wanted to move everything to a new server but couldn't contact Dhabih or something. Kinda interesting that they had access though.
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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

This is happenening almost constantly now.

watmough · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:01 am

yup me too

Matthew · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:25 am

Sumaleth, I know you are not admin nowadays but since all the other mods has abandoned I ask u, can it be the speedy causing problems? I know there was some error way back when the 1500 posts was exceeded, maybe we have reached the posting limit for Speed IV? or have they cut down bandwidth for Sijun?

Anyway it is getting really annoying when that screen pop-ups all the time.
For me it is not always that mysql problem though, seems to be some kind of id problem aswell with a lot of syntax stuff.

check it:

see you

merlyns · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 8:53 am

Sadly this is coming to an point that its annoying. its very frequent
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blehblehbleh · junior member Member # Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 40

It doesn't happen when you use the Firefox browser.

eyewoo · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:14 am

Happening for me 1 out of 3 times....
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spyroteknik · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:18 am

happens to me with firefox, it's not browser specific

it's the debug mode for me too, hit refresh and the code changes

Matthew · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:42 am

yes it is totally getting worse and it can't be due to the amount connected cause I was refreshing and saw 10 guests and all of a sudden this same message appeared again.
btw I heard lots of good stuff about mozilla so I downloaded it but as spyro says the same problem appeared there too. I like the firefox pop-up killer though, nice feature. Smile

*back to batcave

Bandados · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:13 pm

it happens constantly with me, even while trying to post this message...

strange

Matthew · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:46 pm

ok I have contacted the creationstorm guys, I hope I will get an answer.

If I get an answer I can post it in here, otherwise I will try to contact gfxartist.com crew aswell.

we will see what happens

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

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Matthew · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:53 am

yea hehe ceenda.

ok I got a reply back from the creative director Arno and he made some changes.
Seems to be working fine at the moment, let me know guys if it works for you too.

Also this guy seem to be in contact with Dhabib so Dhabib is still in the shadows. I asked about some future questions about the forum and future mod concerns. He said he was gonna chat with Dhabib about it and get back to me, so, hopefully we will get some clarity in these questions and then I can get back to you here.

keep it up everyone. Cool

watmough · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:10 am

still happening...........

Matthew · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:01 am

yea I noticed. I contacted the same guy again so we will see what he says.

thanks for the quick reply watmough
Matthew

CalicoRabbit · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:08 pm

It's happening more and more often, it's quite irritating.

-CalicoRabbit

Arno[bia] · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:43 am

Arno from GFX/Cstorm/BIA here.

The recent server move was indeed unannounced as we had to move quickly.
To comment on Sumaleth's "Kinda interesting that they had access though". Yes we have full access as Sijun is hosted on our servers.

We do not intend to limit the sijun forums in any way. We were unaware of problems untill matthew contacted me. I've upped the maximum connections for Sijun and hope that the problems are solved now.

I'll monitor the forums a bit from now to see if the problem still occurs. If the problems continue feel free to drop me a line at [email protected]

cheers,
Arno Drost MA
Creative Director

Brothers in art
http://www.brothersinart.net/
Creationstorm
http://www.creationstorm.com/
GFXartist
http://www.gfxartist.com/

Sumaleth · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 12:54 am

Oh, I didn't realize Creationstorm was your own hosting biz, thought you were just hosted there like we are.

Thanks for upping the limit.
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Bandados · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 1:13 am

it seems to have fixed the poblem so far...

Matthew · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 5:37 am

Arno, as I said in the mail I really appreciate for taking your time here and fix the problem, also for contributing to the discussion here.

The forum works like a charm now. Very Happy

Many thanks again Arno
have a nice day
Matthew

watmough · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 6:56 am

thanks for taking the initiative and doing something about the problem,matthew......its appreciated.

spyroteknik · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:03 pm

seems to have been going nuts again today, 4 occasions, 5 or 6 refreshes usually makes it bite, but, tonight, f5 key had one hell of a hammering before it let me in

CalicoRabbit · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:50 pm

Yeah, I'm getting that as well. Lost a post because of it. Happened about an hour ago.

Arno[bia] · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 2:55 pm

Ok. as the problems did not seem to be resolved, I had to dig some deeper. And it was actually quite simple.
The data type of the sessions table was set to HEAP, which filled up the memory from time to time.

Setting it to MyISAM should now have fixed the problem.

Sorry for the trouble.

cheers,
Arno Drost MA
Creative Director

Brothers in art
http://www.brothersinart.net/
Creationstorm
http://www.creationstorm.com/
GFXartist
http://www.gfxartist.com/
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