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Old Oct 23, 2007, 10:48 AM
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I think this has been mentioned somewhere else, but I don't know where at the moment.

This morning there seems to be quite a slowdown here. Not only does the survey seem to want to come up, but when I make a post it takes a LONG time for the system to take me back to the forum. At the bottom of my browser at one time I saw something seeming to relate to Google and some kind of analysis taking place. Also some data coming from or to voicefive.com. I think if something like this is happening there should be an announcement about it, but I do not see that. It could be that I am just missing it. On the other hand, maybe there has been no such announcement.
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Old Oct 23, 2007, 12:24 PM
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I'm not sure whats causing the slow down. I've seen it happen over the years as more and more new members find us.

When the system is taking forever to take you back after you post, click the "return to forum" link. It'll take you right back and your post will be posted.
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Old Oct 23, 2007, 12:51 PM
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There was nothing out of the ordinary going on this morning with our systems. All systems are online and operational as normal.
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Old Oct 23, 2007, 11:55 PM
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oh yeah? lately, i've been having trouble getting into chat. i've also been getting the boot, but the unusual part is that it kicked me out of my internet service and i had to reboot my computer. grrrr. don't tell me i need a new 'puter! lol - just a joke. anyway, my java is up to date. could it be the internet? don't need a response. just thinking.
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Old Oct 24, 2007, 01:07 AM
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It seems like just about everyone is having the same issue. I wonder what on earth it is?
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Old Oct 24, 2007, 08:11 AM
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No slowdown today. So something is/was different.
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Old Oct 24, 2007, 12:56 PM
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Yep, same here. Fast again.
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Old Oct 25, 2007, 05:11 AM
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Slow stuff again this morning -- twice lasting more than a minute. It just says "waiting for forums.psychcentral.com" or something like that.

Added later: I've never seen it this bad before, and I've been coming since July. I'm signing out.
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Old Oct 25, 2007, 07:28 AM
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As I've said before in previous threads about these occasional slowdowns in the early morning hours, we run our daily backup every morning. It's a necessary maintenance task and with over 1 GB of data to backup everyday, it does take some load.

Having said that, we are considering whether a more powerful server would help with this task.
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Old Oct 25, 2007, 09:42 PM
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</font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
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As I've said before in previous threads about these occasional slowdowns in the early morning hours, we run our daily backup every morning. It's a necessary maintenance task and with over 1 GB of data to backup everyday, it does take some load.

Having said that, we are considering whether a more powerful server would help with this task.

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(False Darth Vader voice) "John...you don't know the POWER of the Server Side! I must obey my maintenance and back up!"
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Old Oct 26, 2007, 12:36 AM
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I wonder is it possible to have some sort of notice on the main forum page when the system is doing maintenance .. that would at least allow people to differentiate between problems then and problems outside of that.

just an idea?
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Old Oct 26, 2007, 06:18 AM
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One task runs at 12:30am ET, another at 5:00am ET, and the main backup runs at 2:15am ET everyday. The main backup takes the longest to run, usually about an hour.
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Old Oct 26, 2007, 06:34 AM
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> One task runs at 12:30am ET, another at 5:00am ET, and the main backup runs at 2:15am ET everyday. The main backup takes the longest to run,
> usually about an hour.

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Old Oct 26, 2007, 10:24 AM
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now we've got to try to do all those time conversions again Psych Central forum slowdown

every day ?? no wonder we have problems Psych Central forum slowdown that's when we're awake Psych Central forum slowdown

& now daylight savings is coming in here too, just to complicate the whole thing Psych Central forum slowdown
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One task runs at 12:30am ET, another at 5:00am ET, and the main backup runs at 2:15am ET everyday. The main backup takes the longest to run, usually about an hour.

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Old Oct 26, 2007, 02:12 PM
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Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. These dates were established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005).

Not all places in the U.S. observe daylight time. In particular, Hawaii and most of Arizona do not use it. Indiana adopted its use beginning in 2006.

In 2006, daylight time begins on April 2 and ends on October 29.
In 2007, daylight time begins on March 11 and ends on November 4. [New law goes into effect.]
In 2008, daylight time begins on March 9 and ends on November 2.
Many other countries observe some form of "summer time", but they do not necessarily change their clocks on the same dates as the U.S.

Daylight time and time zones in the U.S. are defined in the U.S. Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Subchapter IX - Standard Time.

[b]BTW You may need to update your computer's date and time since this is a new program time. (USA & CANADA)
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Old Oct 26, 2007, 07:52 PM
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This is where I start gettin confused cuz we don't change here. Psych Central forum slowdown
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Old Oct 26, 2007, 10:34 PM
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Ok... November 4th...the time changes. 2 am becomes 1 am to us. 10 pm is 9 pm etc. Our USA computers might be adjusting themselves according to the old system and not in tune with Nov 4th. (It will also be a different day next year Psych Central forum slowdown )


I don't think it matters (time change) if the processes here are set for 12:30 am, 5:00 am and 2:15 am no matter what, you would just need to remember that EST is 5 hours behind UTC. EST begins November 4th this year (at 2 am our time which then becomes 1 am ) Psych Central forum slowdown
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Ok Sky, what about us in the UK? Psych Central forum slowdown
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and us too Sky, we are in Australia ?

we THINK we are 16 hours ahead of site time atm, with daylight savings but the time conversions make us Psych Central forum slowdown
& we can never work out when the chat times are Psych Central forum slowdown Psych Central forum slowdown
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Old Jan 26, 2008, 05:56 AM
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DocJ ??? you run all this on 1GB ???? Psych Central forum slowdown

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Old Jan 26, 2008, 05:35 PM
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No, we have about 1 GB of data to backup everyday; the hard drives are much larger than that! Psych Central forum slowdown

Our community system is a distributed platform, meaning we have multiple servers that do multiple but different tasks to present you the page you're seeing. This means we can handle heavy traffic without as much difficulty, but it does mean it's a little harder to troubleshoot things when we're seeing a slowdown on the page.

We had a blurp this morning while trying to fix some code which caused a slowdown for about 10 minutes. We try not to make things worse, but sometimes we inadvertently do! Psych Central forum slowdown
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