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Originally Posted by Fool Zero
Most of the time this site acts normal for me but when it doesn't, this is the time of evening that it most often doesn't.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fool Zero
Lately it seems as though I encounter most of the delays between 10:30 and 11:30 PM Pacific time. The most common outcome is that after the first click there's a bit of modem activity but the page doesn't change and I eventually click again.
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During the earlier phases of the 11/12/09 incident (see
Status Update on the Community) when the hard drive was malfunctioning but apparently hadn't been taken completely out of service yet, the responses I was getting from the site were exactly like the above except that the delays didn't end.
Since the site came back up I've encountered
no further delays like these. I'm convinced that what I was seeing was a failing hard drive dropping behind the requests for it, probably as the result of all the retries it was having to do at times of heavy use. The time frame I noticed equates to 1:30 to 3 AM Eastern time -- right when I'd expect backups and other drive-intensive housekeeping to be scheduled.