News Index :   Mike's Corner

Date Posted	November 15, 2008
News Title	Some things
Posted By	Michael Ludwick
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Chatro has been acting funny. I believe because of the increased load on the system it is making the chatserver puke every couple of hours. You can chek this by looking at the "Realtime graph" of traffic to the right. Generally it should be smooth nut now it has become jagged. This is not normal. This can cause members to have to relof and I am sorry for the inconvience. I did order one of our crucial servers and am upgrading it thru the roof compared to the machine in question. The current machine is a p4 3.0 2 GB ram and I am replacing it with a Quad core 2.66 / 8GB RAM and moving the operating system from 32 bit to 64 bit. Since the chatserver is CPU/memory intensive and is not really affected by disc IO this should cure what I believe the problem is. The machine will be ready next week. I'm not exactly leading the march on this other people think it is another issue entirely. But since communication of the entire network with this server is needed for Chatropolis to work I think that is where our current burps are originating from. Ordinarily this would be a 2600 dollar gamble but the machine needs to be upgraded anyway and it can only speed everything up. We should see as soon as the server is built and configured. For now I can only say sorry for performance issues and assure we are working on it.