Connection timeout issues

February 17, 2006 8:27 AM

still getting "connection timeout members". if it can't be fixed, perhaps just remove the line? it's not very meaningful anyway.
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome to Bugs at 8:27 AM (8 comments total)

that's weird, I'm not getting it. what system are you using? browser?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:39 AM on February 17, 2006

Not very meaningful? Outrageous!

I think I saw the connection timeout thing this morning, but yeah, it looks fixed now. IIRC, the problem is that it queries the database only once in a long while and then caches the number of users for hours at a time. If there's a problem at that moment, "Connection timeout" gets cached for hours instead.
posted by Plutor at 8:44 AM on February 17, 2006

I'm not getting it any more, but I get it pretty regularly. Perhaps an if-statement to display nothing if you get the string "Connection Timeout"?
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 9:17 AM on February 17, 2006

Or rather to not update the cached value if the update returns the error.
posted by cortex at 10:03 AM on February 17, 2006

yes, what he said
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 10:27 AM on February 17, 2006

peeg can't live without his daily count of mefi members. q finds this humorous.
posted by quonsar at 3:03 PM on February 17, 2006

no q, i just felt that since this is mathowie's livelihood he wouldn't want a bug at the top of the front page.
posted by Protocols of the Elders of Awesome at 8:24 AM on February 18, 2006

I get the same thing fairly regularly, and agree with Protocols.

I think the bugs and the crashiness are funny, but I can't imagine they're good for business.
posted by I Love Tacos at 9:32 PM on February 19, 2006