Metafilter Slowdowns

October 29, 2002 1:14 PM

Am I the only one who has been experiencing a good deal of downtime, timeouts, and generally slow surfing lately on MetaFilter?

I remember reading awhile back that signups were turned off the last time because of server strain. Is that the issue here or are we (is Matt) dealing with something else?
posted by The God Complex to Uptime at 1:14 PM (32 comments total)

Yeah, it's been slow here. I've gotten far too much work done today because of that.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 1:26 PM on October 29, 2002

It's been slow here. as well. Everything loads properly, and the front page seems to be fine, but comments and links within threads seem to take forever (or maybe I'm imagining it.)
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 1:29 PM on October 29, 2002

There's a dying hard drive that needs to be replaced causing most of the harm. I need to drop another gig into the memory as well. These things should take place in the next week or so, though it'll be kind of slow going until it happens.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:36 PM on October 29, 2002

I'll secondthird that. Slow loading has definitely been the order of the day. I've even seen a few "CFTimeout" error boxes.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:36 PM on October 29, 2002

See? It loads so slowly I missed Matt's comment. :P
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:37 PM on October 29, 2002

Ahhh, ok then. Thanks.
posted by The God Complex at 1:45 PM on October 29, 2002

No problem. We're always happy for an opportunity to complain about anything.

[this is cranky]
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 1:58 PM on October 29, 2002

I would also like Matt to drop another gig of oats in my pony while he's at it. And reformat his ... haunches.
posted by Hildago at 4:09 PM on October 29, 2002

Pretty slow here at times, but of more concern are the frequent 404s I've been getting (including two lost comments).
posted by rushmc at 5:21 PM on October 29, 2002

Yeah, me too with the 404s, but I learned after the first lost comment to copy my pending comment to the clipboard before clicking buttons.
posted by dg at 5:52 PM on October 29, 2002

Definitely slow - damn users, nosey parkers the lot of you!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:15 PM on October 29, 2002

There's a dying hard drive(...)

Great first verse for a country song, dying to be completed!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:17 PM on October 29, 2002

Great first verse for a country song, dying to be completed!

There's a dying hard drive back out east
Lord, it's slowing our dahling Meh-Fee
A donation drive would hedge the bleed
Pony up y'all!

Tip of the hat to rushmc and owillis.
posted by riffola at 6:52 PM on October 29, 2002

damn that should be "Lord, it's slowing down our dahling Meh-Fee"
posted by riffola at 6:53 PM on October 29, 2002

Aw, you even managed to slip a pony in there for us. Thanks riffola!
posted by me3dia at 8:15 PM on October 29, 2002

Hmm...has there always been an "uptime" category for MetaTalk posts, or have I gone quietly mad without noticing?

*wanders off, muttering under his breath*
posted by rushmc at 8:41 PM on October 29, 2002

Thread #13 is the first post in the Uptime category.
posted by riffola at 8:49 PM on October 29, 2002

::::Mad as a hatter, that poor old rushmc::::
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:52 PM on October 29, 2002

Well. FINE then.

(like i don't know that you created all this false historical documentation in order to make me question my sanity...fiends!)
posted by rushmc at 10:51 PM on October 29, 2002

I suck. Hard drive's my fault. Sigh.
posted by anildash at 12:42 AM on October 30, 2002

Really? Why? How?
posted by timeistight at 1:36 AM on October 30, 2002

Well stop switching it on and off then, anildash! ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 2:29 AM on October 30, 2002

Because I have the new hard drive here on my desk and I've been too busy to go up and fix it. I am hoping publicly shaming myself will motivate me to remedy that. Heh.
posted by anildash at 5:44 AM on October 30, 2002

You go and fix that hard disk right now anildash!
posted by your mother at 7:24 AM on October 30, 2002

anildash, you rat bastard, go change out that hard drive now or no more...uh...whatever it is that you adore.

Damn, it's hard to threaten someone with ones and zeroes.

On the other hand, I think "rat bastard" will be my new pet phrase.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:53 AM on October 30, 2002

You might have to fight for it, crash.
posted by gleuschk at 10:10 AM on October 30, 2002

Nah, I've got no problems with having someone's username as my pet phrase. After all, hasn't everyone gone through a MiguelCardoso period?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:48 AM on October 30, 2002

Is that like saying, "Anildash, you MiguelCardoso, go swap that hard drive out?
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 10:51 AM on October 30, 2002

No, it's more like when your car won't start on a cold morning and you yell "Come on, you sonofaMiguelCardoso!", or something to that effect.

It's considerably more harsh than rat bastard and something that shouldn't be used around children or the elderly.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:24 AM on October 30, 2002

"Careful, senor, don't step in the MiguelCardoso."

- purloined punchline from a joke I can't quite remember.
posted by yhbc at 12:35 PM on October 30, 2002

Get your own MiguelCardosos, fuckwits!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:44 PM on October 30, 2002

Sassafras!
posted by Hildago at 8:04 PM on November 1, 2002