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I have to log in almost every time I visit here, even when I have 'Log me in automatically' checked. I'm pretty certain it's not a problem on my end, all my other bookmarks (webmail, etc) keep my login active just fine, it's just the SF forums. Also, sometimes (quite often, actually) it takes almost a minute for the page to come up, and this is usually when my login problem happens.

Anyone else experiencing this?
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phpBB is a pile of crap.
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Märk wrote:I have to log in almost every time I visit here, even when I have 'Log me in automatically' checked. I'm pretty certain it's not a problem on my end, all my other bookmarks (webmail, etc) keep my login active just fine, it's just the SF forums. Also, sometimes (quite often, actually) it takes almost a minute for the page to come up, and this is usually when my login problem happens.

Anyone else experiencing this?
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Post by Lord of Oats »

Yes. It also likes to violently log me out when I refresh the index. And it often won't mark topics as read, no matter how many times I look at them.
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Post by melvin »

Yes. And also the pages take forever - like up to a minute - to load.
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sometimes it's snappy, like now. other times it's molasses. i have no idea how it can be fixed. wonder if it's a database issue.
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Most likely a database server issue, if anything. Do you subscribe to dreamhoststatus.com? I highly recommend that you do. They have custom feeds for the news which impacts just you (which you can get from your panel).
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Post by Paco Del Stinko »

sometimes it's snappy, like now. other times it's molasses
Yes, and sometimes during the same log in. As soon as I was going to comment on how slow it was this morning, it took off flying.
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It's molasses again. And I got this a few minutes ago:

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Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@songfight.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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Yeah - I got that message too. And you're right - it's really slow right now.
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Yeah, it's been happening intermittently. I have a very strong suspicion that the database server is unhappy. There might be something simple to speed things up, like fixing some of the indexes or something.
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Oh, jeeze, all the tables are in MyISAM format. No freaking wonder.

[edit] Oh, Google says that maybe MyISAM is better for phpBB. I'll look into it more before I do anything foolish. Meanwhile I went ahead and optimized the tables, which may help for now.
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So much for that. Ugh.
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Yeah - it was killing me all night ... so I watched a bunch of boy meets world, read a lot of Robinson Crusoe, and then came back ... seems fine now.
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Yeah, I converted the database to use InnoDB (which is supposed to be better for highly-concurrent web apps like forums) and it seems a lot more responsive now. I think the phpBB people who say MyISAM (which is optimized for apps without a lot of concurrent reading and writing) is better are full of shit.
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Thanks, fluffy. It seems to be working really good now. (fingers crossed)
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This is the best it's worked for me for a long time. Thanks to Fluffy!
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