HRWiki not working sometimes

CaptainPastHisPrime · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:43 pm

For the second time in a few weeks, this website (and its forum) have been "timing out" and not working. What's going on there?

It's dot com · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:15 am

I think the database occasionally throws an error when it tries to update a page. Normally this is no big deal, but if the timing is just right the server will hang waiting for the database. In the meantime, if another user comes along trying to view the same page, or if the first user reloads, it compounds the problem. If this happens on a popular page, the whole thing snowballs until the server slows to a crawl. I have some ideas on how to fix it.

CaptainPastHisPrime · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:17 pm

It's dot com wrote:

I have some ideas on how to fix it.

Like what? Can you tell me?

It's dot com · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:17 pm

Like getting the wiki to better detect when it's in a destructive loop and avoid it.

Soiled Bargains · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:09 am

It's dot com wrote:

I think the database occasionally throws an error when it tries to update a page. Normally this is no big deal, but if the timing is just right the server will hang waiting for the database. In the meantime, if another user comes along trying to view the same page, or if the first user reloads, it compounds the problem. If this happens on a popular page, the whole thing snowballs until the server slows to a crawl. I have some ideas on how to fix it.

Is this what caused the crash on August 17 this year? Where the wiki was down for four something hours?

It's dot com · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:31 am

Let me answer your question with a question: Remember at the end of A Few Good Men where Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) was planning to call as witnesses two of the airmen who were working the night shift however many random days ago at Andrews Air Force Base where some flight may or may not have landed?

CaptainPastHisPrime · **Posted:** Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:18 pm

It's dot com wrote:

Like getting the wiki to better detect when it's in a destructive loop and avoid it.

How do you do that?

Soiled Bargains · **Posted:** Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:52 pm

It's dot com wrote:

Let me answer your question with a question: Remember at the end of A Few Good Men where Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) was planning to call as witnesses two of the airmen who were working the night shift however many random days ago at Andrews Air Force Base where some flight may or may not have landed?

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