“Extreme load” message

[gasband]

Extreme Load sounds like a series title I see on Pornhub

[Flobs]

I’m off to the pub, 8 in the morning nothing else open,

[DublinRed]

@gasband

Extreme Load sounds like a series title I see on Pornhub

Ohhh damn you @gasband… curiosity is going to get the better of me on this one!

[HugoTheHorrible]

Time to ship a load of ale,it is that time of the year for bollocks threads.

[cynicaloldgit]

It’s not a “bollocks thread”. The board was creaking during a meaningless pre-season friendly, so how will it cope when it gets really busy?

My opening post was to bring this to the mods’ attention.

[Iftikhar]

@SBYM

I haven’t felt this ripped off since @Magnus’ role playing thread…

Role playing games

The beaver and cocaine thread

Hey Guys, I am trying to recreate an issue I have seen on the site, that has been bugging me. The occasional post link from a third party the image does not get resized and appears huge. I noticed it with @CanuckoLFC and @Kopstar posts about a beaver, and another one about cocaine. It should display like this: and I am trying to recreate the issue. Compare and contrast size of different posters beavers (when they provide the same link). If you could cut…

[Nobluff]

@cynicaloldgit

It’s not a “bollocks thread”. The board was creaking during a meaningless pre-season friendly, so how will it cope when it gets really busy?

My opening post was to bring this to the mods’ attention.

[ISMF1]

Absolutely should not happen.

In the old days it happened when CPU become overwhelmed.

What I found at the time 1 regular CPU handled 35 people before the message. 2 regular CPU’s handled 70 or so. So I upgraded to next tier of 4 premium CPUs (absolute overkill)

I have noticed to site is not quite as snappy as before the last upgrade. Going to investigate if it’s software issue. Or a digital ocean issue (who provide the server)

[Klopptimist]

Not to question your technical expertise here and I have little idea of how the back end of this place works (not my thing) I’m shocked that a modern CPU can’t handle hundreds of users. I have a dual core i5 handling 200 users at work no problem. Handles files, distros, printing, AV, GP etc.

[ISMF1]

The challenge is the discourse software.

We basically run a Ubuntu Server. With Discourse forum over the top. The creator of discourse explained it too me like this

"An important thing to keep in mind here is that “chat” implementations generally broadcast the actual content to the subscribers.

In Discourse we have quite a complex pipeline which makes the naive implementation complex that leads to large amounts of traffic.

User posts a reply
All the users looking at the topic discover via broadcast that there is new content
All users ask the server for post content (100 viewers = 100 requests)
We pull images / optimize images
All the users looking at the topic discover via broadcast that there is new content
All users ask the server for post content (100 viewers = 100 requests)
(we have various optimisations, rate limits, retries and so on, but that is the gist)

These requests all have to run via our security pipeline to ensure the user has the rights to see the post and so on.

If the content was short-ish and we could somehow figure out how to do security in a more light-weight way for the “fast lane” then we could distribute the chatty messages via broadcast. This would lead to significantly better performance, we could probably handle 10000 users on a single low 2gb digital ocean droplet with that design.

Security is very complex. Caching is also complex cause of cache invalidation issues.

So, yes, we are absolutely thinking about this problem. But as it stands …

Lots of logged in viewers on one topic + lots of new content on one topic = expensive server bills.

Good news is I have just rebuilt the site, and I think I have fixed an issue which was draining resources. The site seems a little faster so fingers crossed we should no longer get the error.

[Iftikhar]

I think few others have mentioned it already; when I click on a thread, it takes me beyond the unread posts.

[DublinRed]

Seeing it today.

[PaulRoJo]

I never get an ‘extreme load’ message; am I doing it wrong?

My wife deserves to know

[DublinRed]

@PaulRoJo

I never get an ‘extreme load’ message; am I doing it wrong?

My wife deserves to know

Go ask your GP for some little blue pills.

[Nobluff]

@DublinRed

Seeing it today.

No reason for it, sounds like bullshit to me, just another attention seeker jumping on the bandwagon.

[Sithbare]

Forum’s cracking over Caicedo. Damn.

[Sithbare]

In the interest of this being a family forum, I choose not to respond against “extreme load”

[Bekloppt]

24 users is an extreme load?

Are they all obese?

[DublinRed]

@Bekloppt

24 users is an extreme load?

Seen 11 players at the Emirates wearing snide Newcastle jerseys earlier this evening… now they were an extreme load…

[Klopptimist]

Considers the joke about @PeachesEnRegalia and that Alice chick with an extreme load. Runs away…….