a while back the server was really slow, then they did something and the server ewas great. Now since 05-05-06 I can ot get on keeps saying to many sessions for this ip address. That is to the gallery. I can get on everything else just can't get on gallery. Anybody know what is going on?

Hmm not sure larbac.. Sorry I don't have more definite reasoning. I haven't gotten that error in a few days so I don't know.  I'll check tomorrow when I get in the office to see if anything is going on.

Sorry:(

larbac your not the only one getting that message.

For me it is taking much longer to load a link in the forums than before the forum change.
 Something needs to be fixed. :)

They ain't going to fix anything. If they were, they would have done it by now. This is the worst site I go to. It's gotten alot worse for speed since the forum change to pHp. Kind of odd since other pHp sites I go to fly. Rosity is slower than a snail on the sale flats.

Quote - For me it is taking much longer to load a link in the forums than before the forum change.
 Something needs to be fixed. :)

Personally, I've thought that WAY too much emphasis has been placed in the notion that the switch to php would improve the site speed very much...so, what you've experienced since the changeover doesn't surprise me at all.

The basic fact is that there are more people trying to use the site than their servers can handle, and until they significantly expand the capacity to handle the load, the site is going to be sluggish...regardless of the programming code being used.

So cliff-dweller, that means their servers can't properly handle less than 600 people?

Because there's less than that on as I'm typing this, and things are still slow for me on the forums.

And if that's the case, Renderosity's days are numbered, with less than triple digits.

modus0, I, like you, have been online with less than 600 people on here and things have been slow. However, I have also been online with 1800 people on here and things were flying. We think we have narrowed the problem down to some crossed-up indexes on one table in the database. If this, as I suspect, is the case, it could explain the inconsistency, because all 600 people could have been using that one table simultaneously in the times it was slow, and only a handful of the 1800 using in the times it was running fast. We are actually having a meeting concerning this issue in 3 hours. We will likely take the forums down for a few hours Monday to fix the problem. Be watching for an announcement. Nicholas

Thank goodness you've experienced it now too Nicholas. It does seem, however, that you didn't believe the users who were complaining about this weird speed issue until you were able to see it for yourself. Good luck in getting it fixed, may all you bugs be little ones and easily squashed. I would like to browse this site by itself instead of having 2 or 3 more open at the same time while I wait for the Rendo page to come up.

Quote - modus0, I, like you, have been online with less than 600 people on here and things have been slow. However, I have also been online with 1800 people on here and things were flying. We think we have narrowed the problem down to some crossed-up indexes on one table in the database. If this, as I suspect, is the case, it could explain the inconsistency, because all 600 people could have been using that one table simultaneously in the times it was slow, and only a handful of the 1800 using in the times it was running fast. We are actually having a meeting concerning this issue in 3 hours. We will likely take the forums down for a few hours Monday to fix the problem. Be watching for an announcement. Nicholas

Nicholas,

Does this, by chance, also correct the problem of clicking any link on Rosity it taking forever to do someting. I know there have been several people posting about it taking Rosity up to 5 min. to respond when you click a link. I've seen this myself. Currently, I hate to come here because of that.

modus0 wrote:

Quote - So cliff-dweller, that means their servers can't properly handle less than 600 people?

Because there's less than that on as I'm typing this, and things are still slow for me on the forums.

And if that's the case, Renderosity's days are numbered, with less than triple digits.

I don't honestly know the answer to that...I've stopped looking at the numbers of people online since they broke off into two sections with two sets of numbers and two separate logins.

It used to be (a year or two ago) that something around 2000 "currently online" was the upper limit, then you'd start to get the "Too many connections" error message, etc, etc (Though, it was never clear to me if that was actual surfers online at the site...some people said that if a single person had 3 Renderosity pages open at once, it counted as 3 towards the limit of 2000...I think people were trying to reconcile the ### surfers at the top of the page to the "Who's Online" list and that was the explanation for the discrepancy...don't know if that was true or not.) Annnyyywaaaay....

The speed of the site is the ultimate determiner of how many people will be online here...those who are unable or unwilling to wait an unreasonable amount of time for pages to load will either try again later or simply spend less time here. I don't know, I guess it's possible that they feel that's fine as far as the galleries & forums are concerned [those are on the "costs" side of the ledger, after all]...as far as the store part of the site is concerned, well perhaps that's a different story?

It's a case of "the road not taken," in my opinion. They may feel that the $$ sales in the store are going quite well so it's not worth spending whatever additional dollars necessary to get the overall site speed to an acceptable level. What's unknown is what the growth in sales could have been if it were easier (i.e. more fun) to spend our leisure time here!

It's always "just this one little problem* in the code/database/world-wide-web/universe that causes the slowdown, and it will always be fixed real soon...
Meanwhile, as all other 3d sites zoom along...

Good Grief,

I am getting this silly problem about expired IP sessions !

Grrrrrrrr.