Search tables are being rebuilt! And 500 Errors.....
 

Well come to find out they are due to memory usage. 6700Yuma is working on fixing these issues for us. I apologize for any inconvience caused. But I wanted to inform everyone that we are indeed working on it. I will also be rebuilding the search tables over the next couple of days. Please bare with us!
Thanks,
Mike and the PPCGeeks Team

bout time
 

it's about time, lol! :D

I have completed the update. Since completing it about 15 minutes ago, I have not had any 500 Internal Server errors. Hopefully this means we are going to be OK for a little while. No guarantees that the problem won't still rear it's ugly head, but this SHOULD at least reduce the problem.

Thanks to everyone working on this =D> , those server errors were really getting annoying :angry3: . I wish I could help but I really have no idea what yall are doing, if there is something I can do to help let me know.

Thanks
Dave~

Thanks guys! :thumbright:

u da man :D

Awesome job Yuma...

/me bows.

well as my first mod post! GREAT JOB

sorry buddy, i got one a few min ago. ill be off and on tonight so ill record times if i get it again

yea I 2nd that but all the posts haven't been cached yet so I have my fingers crossed.
~Mike

I got about 15 in a row earlier...

i kinda like them :wink: Thanks for the work fellas

Yeah, let's see how things go tomorrow when the site gets hammered. I realize that I got the update done just in time for everyone to go home from work (where we all know that you just screw around on PPCgeeks instead of actually working :D ) So, since site traffic probably dropped off just as I got the update done, I'm not certain how much of an effect this will have yet.
I know that it isn't going to eliminate the problem, but I was home today all day and probably only got to the site a total of 30 minutes out of the 8 hours I was trying. If I can get 6 hours of use out of 8 hours worth of attempts, then I'll be happy. (Thrilled if I can get 8/8!)
Anyway, glad this could help a little. Mike-if the webhost sends you any more error reports, could you PM them to me. I'd like to see what specifically is causing all the memory usage. Also, maybe ask if you can get them to give you a log of mem. usage throughout the day, with which processes are sucking up the most memory.

I had them non-stop for well over 2 hours today, then I'd get on for a minute or two and back to non-stop errors for another hour or two. So 1 time in 3 hours since I finished the update is fantastic.

Why not just convert to a better forum? Ie., SMF. Much lower memory usage, a ton more features, and the conversion from phpBB to SMF is a piece of cake.

I don't have any problems with my SMF forum and managing it is a ton easier than managing my old phpBB forum was... and I know it uses less resources because I switched to SMF after getting a nasty email from SiteGround telling me to lower the system resource usage or they'll have to remove my forum. The only change I've made since then was to go to SMF and now, about 25,000 more posts later, they still haven't sent me anymore emails.

So far so good. I was getting worried there for a moment. Thanks for keeping on top of things mike!

working great, thank you!

i just got 2 of the errors :( but seems to be happening much less often so thats a good start

those two errors were more than likey due to what I was doing. ;) Sorry bout that. I will also be rebuilding the search tables to fix the search features issues.
~Mike

You guys rock! Thanks! Speed has improved significantly too!!!

Whew! I thought it was just me :P (kidding)

But now I can search better, I got about 20 of them in two hours while initially searching posts...

SO... I can refrain from asking retarded questions now (at least I'll try)

thanks!! :P

Yuma -- You rock the sox. If i get a 500 error, I'll emai it to you :)

Mike -- You're the King of Kings, as this site has the best 6700 stuff evar!

Courtney -- You're the best for putting up with all of us, and most of all, being the real boss here, cuz we all know who really wears the pants.

Most of all, thank everyone readin and contributing, making this the best 6700 site on the net!!

Onward to WM6!!

Thank you guys!

I just experienced the 500 error again while attempting to go to the 700w/wx forum. It also logged me off the forums :(

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unfortunatly me too :-(

This morning around 8:00 am I had a few of the erroer and the site was running pretty slow. But no problems this afternoon. :)

It is certainly better than yesterday, but obviously not eliminated. I wish I could see the server logs so I could find out exactly what processes are taking up all the memory. Depending on where the problem lies, I've got some ideas, but some of those ideas would reduce features. I'd hate to do that if it affected an area that isn't causing the problem.

I'm gonna get u those yuma just wanted to see what was happening as more posts are cached.
~Mike

I counted... I had 32 today.

This is between 8:22 and 12:20 MT.

I didn't finally get to access the site at all until 10.