Critical PHP errors

Post by **Dave_K.** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:27 pm

Is anyone else seeing sparatic citrical PHP errors when browsing the forum?

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:35 pm

It's just you...

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:36 pm

forum's tryin' to tell ya somethin'

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:40 pm

jpj wrote:forum's tryin' to tell ya somethin'

There is something about this song
This is a song about something there
We're meeting G over there

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:45 pm

Pixies rule !

gavin19 · Post by **gavin19** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:54 pm

Yep, some sporadic errors for me too.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:01 pm

Same. In my experience, they go away after a couple minutes.

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:27 pm

it happened seyterday for a couple of times

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:34 pm

Weird things like that have been happening for me for a few days. Dunno. Praps someone shpuld PM Bloodflowers.

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:02 pm

ive been getting them too for a few days periodically...mostly during the day...it seems to be fine in the evening....

whatever it is it seems to fix itself after a few minutes....

perhaps issues with the new server bloodflowers spoke of

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:27 pm

Yeah, I had em and lost a large post. Bloody annoying.

moozooh · Post by **moozooh** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:28 pm

This is the point where you normally switch to a browser that saves input form content and makes it available by pressing "back".

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:32 pm

its not rekos fault

trivial · Post by **trivial** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:57 pm

Michaelm wrote:Pixies rule !

Yeah but Doolittle getting released as Rock Band DLC is forcing me to buy a console I don't want

Post by **system11** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:36 pm

If someone gets the error could they screenshot it please and send me a link? If the error string isn't very long then just post it to me here.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:02 pm

I've got some when trying to reply to topics yesterday, but it went away, and it didn't show up again.

Post by **system11** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:09 pm

It might be fixed now, old server used a socket file to connect, new was using actual TCP/IP sockets, different limits. I've changed it over to a socket file. Please record details of what it says if it happens again.

Of course I notice traffic is up too, quite heavily. All the indexing engines seem to be re-crawling the server due to the site move.

bay · Post by **bay** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:35 pm

All i recall is it was a database error. Could have been no sockets/descriptors left i suppose.

antron · Post by **antron** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:44 pm

bay wrote:All i recall is it was a database error. Could have been no sockets/descriptors left i suppose.

dito the database error. said could not access. Firefox 3.0

gavin19 · Post by **gavin19** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:49 pm

Again, just there, 14:37 GMT.

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

Post by **system11** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:00 pm

Yeah I had one report from earlier today so I'm bouncing the MySQL server a bit and changing some values. Also I discovered the real problem is that Googlebot and Yahoo between them had created over 1200 sessions, they've been bombarding the site ever since it moved. Hopefully they'll pick up the new robots.txt file soon and fuck off and leave us alone.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:57 pm

bloodflowers wrote:Hopefully they'll pick up the new robots.txt file soon and fuck off and leave us alone.

Will they still be able to index posts somehow? I found it valuable to see google search results come up with threads here.

Post by **system11** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:56 pm

In theory, the robots.txt file now should stop any bots spidering search results and other insane acts. For a rough example of the damage this has been causing:

Since the site came up on the new server, Googlebot has retrieved 112339 threads. Yahoo and MSN have done about the same, and god knows who else.

Post by **system11** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:42 pm

More horror stats.

From total bandwidth on the server:
42% of traffic is Googlebot
6% is Yahoo Slurp
5% is MSN Search

Which nicely explains why our bandwidth use has doubled, because over 50% of current bandwidth is being used exclusively by web indexing bots.

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:49 pm

Just sue them or something for outrageous use of limited bandwidth?
Indexing the internet shouldn't mean slowing it down so significantly.

Then again, to whom do you complain and ask for measures?

(yes I know this isn't realistic in any way)

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:30 pm

I've had no critical errors but the forum does run very slowly on my machine and occasionally eats up all of the CPU. The only other sites that do that are ones with a heavy use of flash

D · Post by D » Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:34 pm

klov was offline a few hours ago.
shmups forum worked great. If anyone ever has troubles logging on to any forum. delete your cookie for that site and it might work again.
This is my own discovered solution, not verified by anyone so use at your own risk.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:30 pm

No errors, but I'm getting random, weird slowdowns this morning.

Michaelm · Post by **Michaelm** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:19 pm

D wrote:klov was offline a few hours ago.
shmups forum worked great. If anyone ever has troubles logging on to any forum. delete your cookie for that site and it might work again.
This is my own discovered solution, not verified by anyone so use at your own risk.

What ? Are you looking for a job and joined the 'government run' work search site which doesn't work for more then half of the time ?
Most probably it's been tailored to the work speed of actual government workers.
And yeah, they show you that same solution to get it to work again.