Finally!!! Welcome to the CF's REAL new servers! :D

[Erwin]

Okay, after another 24 hours of tweaking and reinstalling, CF's new servers are finally running at top speeds! :)

CF had moved to brand new servers which are all much more powerful than our old ones - however, for some reason we were running slower - I figured the problem out and realised that this is because our operating system kernel, FreeBSD, was compiled to only see 1 processor when our servers actually have 4 - this caused CF to slow down to a crawl.

Well, the kernel was recompiled on all servers which were all rebooted.

However, in that process, the time on all servers were wrong. However, be aware that any posts made when the time was wrong will be OUT OF SYNC in the thread or forum - you'll have to look back to find them.

This has been fixed (I left work early to come home to do it).

So we are now finally on CF's new servers, with top speed!!! :D

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[misscaffeiney]

Congrats! Well done! Yay! It's moving so quickly! :)

Great Job. :hug:

[linchen]

:hug: Thank you so much Erwin! :pink:

I have to confess that in the last days I stopped posting.... because everything was so slow! :cry:

But now! :D WOW!

God bless you brother!

[bubblefish]

Thankyou Erwin for all the time and work you put into this site :hug:
Now take some time and relax! You deserve it :)
God bless you

[Beastt]

What can we say?

Thanks Erwin for your constant attention to detail and desire to continually improve the site.

:thumbsup:

[meebs]

thanks Erwin :D :hug:

[Dr. Holly]

Erwin, you are such a gem. Thanks so much for all of your hard work. You really go above and beyond your call of duty, don't you? :hug: God bless you, brother! CF is really running very smoothly, compared to before. Your hard work does not go unnoticed, and it is so very appreciated. More than you know! ;) I hope you are resting now, and are feeling better real soon!

[Redeemed_Warrior]

so fast :D much better

[SummerRain]

Thanks Erwin! Good work

[beehoney]

Wheeeeee! It's so much better now!

[linchen]

For some reason ....seems it's slowing down again! :-(

Or it's just my pc?:scratch:

[beehoney]

Fast as a bullet for me. It's the best it's ever been.

[ctay]

Yeah!! I couldn't do anything in here yesterday

[hzfollower9]

thanks! nice and fast now! :)

[bill16652]

Thanks Erwin for your dedication this is wonderful

[PorcelainHeart]

thanks u, it's really fast now

[tapero]

Dear Erwin,

Thank you so much for all that you did, all that you had to learn to put this in place, and for fixing it. Thank you for this site. God bless you, Ganaan

[PaladinValer]

Very nicely done. I hope fixing all those out of synch posts wasn't too troublesome for you.

[Erwin]

Let me know if the site slows down at all - I want to be able to make sure the site is fast all the time.

[PorcelainHeart]

it's been pretty fast.

[~SoLongSelf~]

Okay, after another 24 hours of tweaking and reinstalling, CF's new servers are finally running at top speeds! :)

CF had moved to brand new servers which are all much more powerful than our old ones - however, for some reason we were running slower - I figured the problem out and realised that this is because our operating system kernel, FreeBSD, was compiled to only see 1 processor when our servers actually have 4 - this caused CF to slow down to a crawl.

Well, the kernel was recompiled on all servers which were all rebooted.

However, in that process, the time on all servers were wrong. However, be aware that any posts made when the time was wrong will be OUT OF SYNC in the thread or forum - you'll have to look back to find them.

This has been fixed (I left work early to come home to do it).

So we are now finally on CF's new servers, with top speed!!! :D

Post comments here!

I appreciate all of your hard work. More than you could imagine. I know you have had to hear alot of fussing on CF and I'm sorry for that. You are a blessing. Thanks for making this place possible.:thumbsup:

[Hisbygrace]

Thank you so much for all your hard work and the time that you put into making a better site for us!

[Theresasjourney]

TY Erwin~~so far so good!!

[Daisysqueaks]

Thanks a bunch Erwin! WTG! :wave:

[WalksWithChrist]

Engineering reports warp drive available at your command sir!

[angelwind]

Erwin, you are such a gem. Thanks so much for all of your hard work. You really go above and beyond your call of duty, don't you? :hug: God bless you, brother! CF is really running very smoothly, compared to before. Your hard work does not go unnoticed, and it is so very appreciated. More than you know! ;) I hope you are resting now, and are feeling better real soon! I just have to say amen to this Erwin...your hard work does not go unnoticed...thank you so much....:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

[PorcelainHeart]

thank you, thank you

[meebs]

Engineering reports warp drive available at your command sir!

sheilds are operational at 100%

We may need a new supply of dilithium soon..

[angelwind]

This is so fast, I think it is not working right...we are at light speed I think...:thumbsup:

[PaladinGirl]

Thanks Erwin! :thumbsup: :clap:

[HisEagle]

Sorry - to me, it's running much slower now than it was before. Just being honest.

[Garnett]

Much improved speeds here. Tried to post yesterday and saw your post.

Well done for getting it all sorted, and thanks. I really appreciate the results of your efforts.

[Spudgrandma]

THANKS! I think it is wonderful. My speed is much faster and I do appreciate everthing you do to provide this site. God Bless!

[Miracle Storm]

Thanks Erwin for all the hard work you do here. Everything was acting so crazy last night', buggin' out!!
You got everything up and running so quickly!!:thumbsup:
God bless you and your family!
His, in Christ, amberbeth.

[VioletAngel]

It is running faster here, only occasionally it hangs there for a minute, and then runs well again. :)

[meh]

Going extremely fast today!

Thanks so much for all the work and time you put in for us and this board.:clap:

[MeekOne]

Let me know if the site slows down at all - I want to be able to make sure the site is fast all the time.Thank you, Erwin! :pink: It is a lot faster than it has ever been before!!! What a wonderful thing you have done here for us all! :clap: Glad the down time wasn't so bad this time either. ;)

[I'ddie4him]

Okay, after another 24 hours of tweaking and reinstalling, CF's new servers are finally running at top speeds! :)

CF had moved to brand new servers which are all much more powerful than our old ones - however, for some reason we were running slower - I figured the problem out and realised that this is because our operating system kernel, FreeBSD, was compiled to only see 1 processor when our servers actually have 4 - this caused CF to slow down to a crawl.

Well, the kernel was recompiled on all servers which were all rebooted.

However, in that process, the time on all servers were wrong. However, be aware that any posts made when the time was wrong will be OUT OF SYNC in the thread or forum - you'll have to look back to find them.

This has been fixed (I left work early to come home to do it).

So we are now finally on CF's new servers, with top speed!!! :D

Post comments here!

COOL !!!
My dialup loading pages is much faster now.:thumbsup:

[eladoni]

Well, last night, it was lightening fast, but then again, there were only 650 people on. :P

But this morning it is back to normal(pretty quick)...but last night was REAL fast. :)

Thanks Erwin! ^_^

[WalksWithChrist]

CF has slowed down somewhat through the afternoon. But still *way* better than what it was last week! I'd say it's back to "normal" speed right this minute.

[J4Jesus]

This is much faster!:clap: :thumbsup:
Thanks Erwin!:wave:

[Erwin]

CF was slow? Mmm... it's always running at full speed for me since we fixed the OS issue. It could be local network traffic congestion rather than CF. CF should be at top speed now.

[PorcelainHeart]

i haven't had A problem with it

[Veiled Viper]

Lightning fast for me,Erwin!:thumbsup:

[joyshirley]

It's superb, compared to before, Erwin!! Thank you!! :D :hug:

[Erwin]

Sorry, I had to take the database down for 1 hour to fix a corrupted post and thread table issue... it's finally fixed now, praise God.

[beehoney]

Two thumbs up Erwin!

[WalksWithChrist]

CF was slow? Mmm... it's always running at full speed for me since we fixed the OS issue. It could be local network traffic congestion rather than CF. CF should be at top speed now.It couldn't be local traffic. I'm on a super fast pipe (T3) and all the other sites I was looking at were moving fast yesterday afternoon. CF is back up to speed right now. :thumbsup:

[PorcelainHeart]

its fast now

[Lambkins]

it's slow now! ;)

It takes a long time to go between threads.
And now I am getting a Database error.

[Erwin]

it's slow now! ;)

It takes a long time to go between threads.
And now I am getting a Database error.
I was fixing a corrupt table. Should be okay now.

[Theresasjourney]

I'm moving right along Erwin~~Thank you bunches!!

[WalksWithChrist]

Kinda slow right now and hanging up a bit. Kinda like yesterday. Checked another board and it's running nice and zippy.

[PorcelainHeart]

its fast

[Leosam096]

Thank you so much Erwin.

Cheers!

[Lambkins]

Thanks Erwin!! :thumbsup:

Seems to be okay now!!

Thanks for all your hard work!! :hug:

[Erwin]

I'm going to add another dual xeon to our mix of servers to speed up the slave database - I may be able to open up searching to more people. We'll see. Anyway, this will happen in another 6-7 hours.

[I'ddie4him]

Hi Erwin,
Things seem to be hanging up a bit for me.
I've cleared my cache, cookies, defragged, and did a cleanup.
Is there anything else I can do to my PC to help ??

[Erwin]

The hanging could be interference from the slave search database - I'm getting the host to get me another dual xeon server with 15k RAID SCSI to run the slave database. This is not going to happen today, so it may be tomorrow.

[GraceInHim]

it is working fine for me, just a couple of times when I posted into a thread it went white but the post went through, had to refresh.. but other then this.. working fine .. my speed is 54.0 Mbps, wireless, signal is excellent.. sometimes when my laptop runs slow on the internet, I check the other pc's in the house, if one is running slow, it slows me way down far as my signal.

Thanks Erwin

[Erwin]

Let me know if people get a blank screen as it could the php cache we are using.

[GraceInHim]

like I said I got one about an hour ago went white... then I went to my favs on Internet and click on CF and went back in the thread and the post was posted.. once that is all.. will let ya know if it happens again.

[Veiled Viper]

I just had some wierdness where I couldn't see any posts,just peoples "personalities".

[meebs]

i saw it too...t'was a scary experience

[Erwin]

I was mucking around with something and erased the wrong thing - had to restore a backup!

[meebs]

eep! ok. we all had momentary panic attacks is all :D

[I'ddie4him]

The hanging could be interference from the slave search database - I'm getting the host to get me another dual xeon server with 15k RAID SCSI to run the slave database. This is not going to happen today, so it may be tomorrow.

Thanks for the explanation, I was worried I had to much junk on this thing.

[I'ddie4him]

I was mucking around with something and erased the wrong thing - had to restore a backup!

I hate it when I do that.
Accidentally erased a exe file for one of my sons games on the PC and had to reinstall the thing.:doh:

[Theresasjourney]

things are just genrally running slow for me at the moment~~just letting you know.

[HisEagle]

it is working fine for me, just a couple of times when I posted into a thread it went white but the post went through, had to refresh.. but other then this.. working fine .. my speed is 54.0 Mbps, wireless, signal is excellent.. sometimes when my laptop runs slow on the internet, I check the other pc's in the house, if one is running slow, it slows me way down far as my signal.

Thanks Erwin


54.0 Mbps??? How on earth do you get connection speeds that fast? Are you sure you don't mean 54 Kbps?

Anyway, the site is running sporadically fast and slow for me. As others have noted, I don't think it's local traffic because other sites are running pretty fast for me.

[GraceInHim]

54.0 Mbps??? How on earth do you get connection speeds that fast? Are you sure you don't mean 54 Kbps?

Anyway, the site is running sporadically fast and slow for me. As others have noted, I don't think it's local traffic because other sites are running pretty fast for me.

that is what it says 54.0 Mbps, on my little green bars at the bottom right of my laptop..

[meebs]

actually for some reason CF is becoming irritatingly slow now, getting worse in the day!

[WalksWithChrist]

that is what it says 54.0 Mbps, on my little green bars at the bottom right of my laptop..That's the speed of your local network connection, not your Internet speed. If it was, you'd be paying a pretty penny to surf that fast! ;)

[GraceInHim]

That's the speed of your local network connection, not your Internet speed. If it was, you'd be paying a pretty penny to surf that fast! ;) I dunno, my SSID is belkin54g, but the signal is the most important.. when I see the yellow bars come, that means a pc in my house is freezing up :D

[WalksWithChrist]

I dunno, my SSID is belkin54g, but the signal is the most important.. when I see the yellow bars come, that means a pc in my house is freezing up :DMay you always be blessed with green bars. :thumbsup::angel:

[Erwin]

things are just genrally running slow for me at the moment~~just letting you know.
The site runs fast, then freezes up for a while at times - I need to move the slave search database to a new server to see if that fixes it, move our php files to faster drive and tweak the ligttpd config files.

This will happen this weekend sometime probably.

[puppy]

o wow thats alot better and no more freezing, thanks erwin xxx

[Erwin]

The new slave server is still being set up... in the meantime, I tweaked the web server config to fix the occasional slowing down of the web server, let's see if that helps... to me, it's going a tad bit faster...

[Veiled Viper]

It's flying super fast for me!
:)

[LunaLee_16]

Thanks for working so hard to keep CF in shape, Erwin! :clap:

God Bless!

[Theresasjourney]

Pretty much running the same for me as before but I have a good DSL provider~~~;o))

[HisEagle]

That's the speed of your local network connection, not your Internet speed. If it was, you'd be paying a pretty penny to surf that fast! ;)

LOL! My thoughts exactly! :D Man, wouldn't it be great to get internet speeds that fast.

EDIT: Okay, I'm going to change what I just wrote. It seems to be bogging down suddenly again. :sigh:

[HisEagle]

And now it's working fine. :scratch:

(Can we say "cyber-schizophrenia"? :confused:)

Well, at any rate, it seems to be zipping along nicely now. :thumbsup:

[Erwin]

For some reason CF crashed at around 3 am my time... I just woke up at 6.30 am and found out - fixed it.

Sorry about that... I'm still trying to find out why - it's to do with the webserver - one of the lighttpd settings - I've changed it - let's see how it goes.

[chaoschristian]

For some reason CF crashed at around 3 am my time... I just woke up at 6.30 am and found out - fixed it.

Sorry about that... I'm still trying to find out why - it's to do with the webserver - one of the lighttpd settings - I've changed it - let's see how it goes.

Thank you for your efforts Erwin. All is well here now in the Heartland of Snack Foods, Dairy Cows and Motorcycles.

[HisEagle]

Yeah, there for a few hours earlier today I couldn't even get on at all. Now it seems to be okay, zipping along again.

[HisEagle]

Okay, now it's dragging slower than ever before. What's going on, Erwin?

[Theresasjourney]

its erradic~~that for sure.

[euphoria]

It has been really fast here the past two days. :)

[LoverOfMySoul]

thank you

[puttytat190]

thanks , for making cf so cool!:)
puttytat190:angel:

[ontheside]

Saweet!

[Romanos]

Well, if you believe 5-15 seconds load time on broadband is quick (when Google in another tab will load nearly instantly), that's not good.

Sorry, just my nickel's worth.

[Erwin]

Well, if you believe 5-15 seconds load time on broadband is quick (when Google in another tab will load nearly instantly), that's not good.

Sorry, just my nickel's worth.
How many users were online at the time? We may need another quad opteron it would appear...

[MN John]

That would be great!

[Alice the Sister]

It seems the same as about before it went "really slow" a while back.

5-15 seconds is sort of slow but it could be worse., I guess... but don't compare it to google. Google doesn't load as much data.

I bet it's hard to really understand how much processing we'll need since the users are always fluctuating and changing.

[Pansy]

Sometimes it is really fast, and but in the evenings it always slows down to a crawl. And that is with less users on here.