Public Service Announcement

[Pretender]

Listen, I have something somewhat important to say.

Tonight, as you may have noticed, the "forums are experiencing extremely high traffic" error has been rampant. Can you guess why? It's because too many people are trying to access the site at once. Think about that for a moment.

Each time you go to a thread, you download a bunch (maybe 20-30 of icons), and an html file of up to a few hundred KB. For every thing to be downloaded, one socket is used. You get an error message when the server is out of available open sockets.

Now, lets say Joe Schmoe wants to make a nef post. He opens the "New Thread" page (1), writes the post and clicks Post Thread, which sends him back to the index (1). Then many other people read the thread, regardless of whether or not they know he's a nef (64+). Already, we can see over 66 times a page was requested, each one requiring image downloads and multiple sockets used.

Now do you wonder why you're getting an error message? I'm not saying don't post at all, I'm saying nef posts have a greater impact than you can imagine. If you must nef, do it during the week or during the hours of 2AM-3PM, when no one gives a flying f. Until the specified times, don't post trash, it's impact multiplies exponentially and creates this.

Thank you.

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Before you get carried away with your in-depth analysis, the problems you are experiencing are for exactly the opposite reasons. This weekend, we are installing more servers to deal with our growing traffic load. This will cause a few intermittant problems as they bring the new machines online.

See Zuni's post in Forum Issues.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

They are upgrading tonight, too.

 

[eakers]

so what you are saying is that:
there are less people on, less people posting, less posts than other times of the week but because in your opinon the posts are useless its causing the high traffic error.

i get it.

*kat. <-- :disgust:

 

[loogie]

If I wanted to hear a sermon, I'd go to church.

 

[etech]

Well said. That expresses my fustration with the overabundence of IMHO meaningless messages.

If you have something to add, that's fine, this is a place to speak your mind. If all you have to add is &quot;me too&quot; is it worth the bandwidth?

I have trouble believing that someone can rack up over 200 posts in three days and have the content of even 25% be worthwhile.

The other problem is that a thread gets bumped to the top, you open it hoping to find something interesting and find a two or three word reply that has nothing to do with the thread, it's fustrating at times. And no, I do not want to defend every post I have made.

Just my $0.02, worth what you paid for it.

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

Don't be too hard on Pretender. He has good intentions, although warped at times.

 

[Pretender]

I stand corrected. I didn't see the forum issues post....


Still, uh, don't nef. It's not good, and it rots your teeth and gives you hairy palms.

 

[Wallydraigle]

How dare the forums be busy! And you're paying such good money for them too. No wait a minute! That's right. Duh.