Thursday, September 06

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Applet Bug

Blog fall down. sad

Update: Bug fixed; applets are go.  1.1 here we come!

Just need to add a CSS class so that you can control applet styling, and add a couple more examples, which I'll do this evening, and then I can roll out the whole thing. smile

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:42 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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Pixy, I'm having no joy with getting The Pond to load, and even less on getting into the back-end... blog.mu.nu won't even load up.

Help?

Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, September 10 2007 11:57 AM (qBCpG)

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Never mind... whatever was clogging teh intartubes has unstuck itself. 

Either that, or you fixed it.  If you did, you are the greatest webmaster of all time, fixing it that fast.

Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, September 10 2007 12:13 PM (qBCpG)

3 The problems we've been having with spam floods overloading the server came to a head just now (well, the last couple of hours), and the server locked up completely.  I've rebooted it now, and we're back on the air.

I'll be moving mu.nu to a new, more powerful server next weekend to fix this.  Basically the current server just doesn't have enough memory, and when it starts to run out, it gets slow - up to 1000 times slower than normal.  Which is the same thing as dead for a web server.  The new server fixes this by the simple expedient of having 3x as much memory.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, September 10 2007 12:21 PM (PiXy!)

4 Of course, that kind of drastic reduction of performance is quite normal when virtual memory begins to thrash.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, September 10 2007 12:48 PM (+rSRq)

5 Yep.  Virtual memory bad!  With the new server, I doubled the memory, and took advantage of a special deal to get another 2GB of memory for free.  Yay!

Meanwhile we're seeing Microsoft promoting the use of Flash memory as swap space.  Understandable, given that their memory management is so abysmal.  I don't know whether the code is simply untuneable or if they're just idiots.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, September 10 2007 12:59 PM (PiXy!)

6 Wonderduck's comment system is returning error 500 now when I try to post a comment.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, September 10 2007 03:54 PM (+rSRq)

7 Thanks for the heads-up, Steven.  Fixed now.  Looks like the spam watchdog was trying to disable comments at the same moment that I rebooted the box, because the comment script got wiped.  (Easily fixed by copying it back again.)

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, September 10 2007 06:25 PM (PiXy!)

8 Pixy's my hero!  Yay Pixy!

Posted by: Wonderduck at Tuesday, September 11 2007 08:20 AM (qBCpG)

9 So, what do you want for your birthday this year, young man? Harvey's asking for boobs...again! wink

Posted by: Susie at Tuesday, September 11 2007 10:35 AM (+wF4P)

10 Sleep.  All I want for my birthday this year is sleep. sad

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, September 11 2007 10:38 AM (PiXy!)

11 Sigh...you are so difficult to shop for! wink

Posted by: Susie at Tuesday, September 11 2007 11:45 PM (+wF4P)

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