Posted: 3/9/2008 7:43 PM
Post subject: Recent Downtime?
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girfanatic501
Joined: 1/27/2008
Posts: 236
Location: Somewhere
I have realized that recently some pages on the site haven't been working due to:
awsomness site called TASvideos wrote:
The server is under heavy load (5.9375 times the safe limit). To prevent the load from growing, we have blocked your request. Please try again later, but not too soon or the problem will only get worse! (Hint: 10 minutes) Please consider donating for the nesvideos website to make this event less likely to happen in the future. (Don't click immediately! Remember, the server is under high load.) Possible cause of problem: some user is running a dumb mirroring script. Please do not try to mirror the nesvideos website. If you want a local copy, contact me personally.
Anybody knows exactly what it means? XD I have no idea. (I know, I'm dumb)
See Youtube page (GIRfanaticTAS) for all runs and stuff.
Posted: 3/9/2008 8:08 PM
(Edited: 3/9/2008 8:12 PM)
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Randil
Skilled player (1885)
Joined: 4/20/2005
Posts: 2160
Location: Norrköping, Sweden
It basically means that too many people are trying to connect to Bisqwit's server at the same time. This causes the server to block requests to prevent too many people from connecting at the same time. Or something like that, I think. :) EDIT: I'm not sure what the script part is about. I think it means that someone uses a script that tries to connect to TASvideos many consecutive times, but I'm not sure.
My own page on this site.
Posted: 3/9/2008 8:09 PM
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Raiscan
Joined: 11/11/2006
Posts: 1235
Location: United Kingdom
We're under attack! Avast, ye swabs! Repel the invaders! (apparently theres all sorts of bizzare things going on..)
<adelikat> I am annoyed at my irc statements ending up in forums & sigs
Posted: 3/9/2008 8:15 PM
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DeHackEd
Emulator Coder, Site Developer, Former player
Joined: 11/6/2004
Posts: 833
It probably means someone's crawling the site. Lots of connections mean bandwidth lost, a lot of programs being run to generate pages, etc. As for load, it could be some other force is making the CPU/RAM/disk churn. I think the measure of load is "load average" and that could be anything. Edit: Bisqwit was running a peterbox brute force solver that required about 50 gigs of RAM. The server has 6 gigs and the rest goes to swap, this killing all performance. Wow, never thought I'd need to see more than 10 gigs of swap in use.
Posted: 3/10/2008 12:53 AM
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girfanatic501
Joined: 1/27/2008
Posts: 236
Location: Somewhere
K. Now I understand!
See Youtube page (GIRfanaticTAS) for all runs and stuff.