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Active Forums => QB64 Discussion => Topic started by: Petr on December 04, 2021, 04:06:50 pm
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Also, is the forum crashing on your side with this message? It is becoming more common:
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Also, is the forum crashing on your side with this message? It is becoming more common:
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Can confirm this happens a lot since a week or so. Sometimes 3-4 times a day and it usually takes 1-2 hours until it works again.
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Yes very distressing, just look at Online today, 12? That's lowest I've ever seen!
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We have been experiencing issues with our hosting for a week now, still haven't gotten around to it. Every time it came back up is because I manually had to intervene. If it took a while it's because I was away from a computer, but that'll happen.
Thank you of your understanding,
Sisyphus.
Ps: Fellippe. I meant Fellippe.
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"had to intervene"... "The squeaky wheel gets the oil". Unless 'they' are monitoring (which implies pro-active) or someone tells 'them' of an issue.......
J
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in the while that Fellippe restarts the forum type this in edge url address
edge://surf/
havea fun!
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For those who might want a backup site to visit/post on, I've unlocked the registration on my archival forums here: https://qb64.freeforums.net/
Feel free to sign up there if you guys want, though it's seldom used and was collecting dustballs until just a few days ago when I unlocked it again. ;)
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Can all start a drinking game when the forum is down! Every 5 mins that its down you take a drinky! Then when you wake up some time later you don't even remember it being down!
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@SMcNeill
HI Steve, it's a time box for me, I have found my posts there from 2017!
Since how much time were we talking and typing QB64 code?
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For those who might want a backup site to visit/post on, I've unlocked the registration on my archival forums here: https://qb64.freeforums.net/
Feel free to sign up there if you guys want, though it's seldom used and was collecting dustballs until just a few days ago when I unlocked it again. ;)
FreeForums, man good luck if you loose a password and you are visiting 3 different FreeForums sites regularly.
Apparently you are allowed only one FreeForum pass with each email address, so now I am down to one forum and it's not particularly the one I would choose to be stuck with.
edge://surf/
Oh well, new game find something interesting on You Tube and while viewing or after find more interesting things suggested off that...
I am currently at 44 links, I think I average 4 new links at each viewing, so guess how many I've viewed since the outages started. These things run from 5 mins to 2 hours, maybe 20 min average. But more and more I see same old suggestions over and over, I wish I could say don't suggest that again for 6 months.
One of interest I would like to share is (branchless programming):
I haven't seen it yet but sounds interesting. It's got me wondering and thinking about IF THEN replacement. what he might be going to say, which is why I had a reply to @Cobalt's recent reminder request.
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I use branchless programming a lot in critical sections of my chess program where the ultimate in speed is required.
The problem with it is that it makes the code very, very ugly and hard to understand later.
Another way to get more speed is to avoid using strings. Cut the strings and SET THE PUPPETS FREE!
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I liked the explanation of why IF THEN takes longer if Compiler doesn't optimize for you and R Frost, I was thinking about things you've said about getting your Chess program to work faster.
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The problem with IF is more with flushing/reloading the pipeline, which requires calling up a plumber.
More speed tips:
1) longs are faster than integers, so DEFLNG a-z right off the bat
2) DO/LOOP faster than FOR/NEXT
3) replace a complicated line like IF (a < b) and (b = 0) and (c <> 1) with:
...when a < b is the most common situation.
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Forum outages solved. Thank you all for your patience.
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Forum outages solved. Thank you all for your patience.
So you guys finally took my advice and bought a new hamster for the power wheel. I told ya that'd fix the problem!
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😂
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Good news thanks!
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Nice to have some normalcy back in an otherwise abnormal time. Thanks.
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Forum outages solved. Thank you all for your patience.
Glad to hear it. Thank you for your efforts.
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Would I be too forward enquiring as to the cause of said outages? Just curious.
J
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Would I be too forward enquiring as to the cause of said outages? Just curious.
J
The hamster that ran the power wheel for the server was old and getting feeble. They replaced him and now we're good for another three to five years. ;D
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Would I be too forward enquiring as to the cause of said outages? Just curious.
J
We had a table in our database that kept error logs and it was going way beyond our server limits. Wiping it clean (and fixing the cause of said error logs in the php code) fixed it.
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Cool. A little vague but glad it is fixed.
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@FellippeHeitor
Good Job!
Is this issue related to the other that I have described you before?
(in time out, on replying to a post, entering again into the forum with login I get the page of New Thread)
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No idea. Do you still get that?
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We had a table in our database that kept error logs and it was going way beyond our server limits. Wiping it clean (and fixing the cause of said error logs in the php code) fixed it.
I may be wrong, but if I remember correctly, this is exactly what caused the humongously long outages when Galleon was running the show. He'd get busy with his real work, forget to check the server, and the log would overflow with errors. In that case, it went on for weeks. To the point where I often wondered whether the project had reached end of life. Very disconcerting. At least here, the outages were always short. Thanks, Fellippe!!
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It is indeed very likely the causes were similar.
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Steve,
It look like they are using a turbo-charged hamster this time... No outages for a while now... lol
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No idea. Do you still get that?
Yes I get
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Moreover I have noticed that suggestion for shortcuts into reply page alt+s / alt+p.
Well those shortcuts doesn't work into my Chrome in Windows 8.1
Just a feedback that can be useful.