Slow updating on Recent Forum Posts.

TRIGGER M4N · October 12th, 2007, 00:12

On the front page, I've been having slow updating on the Recent Forum Posts. Sometimes it will update correctly, then when the page refreshes !BAM! Gone back to being out of date. Is it just me or is this a problem for the site?

Rossko_UK · October 12th, 2007, 01:10

Seems fine for me.

MueR · October 12th, 2007, 04:33

You can consider this wild guessing at the moment, will discuss this with Curry at the office. If you can supply any more info, please share it.

This might have something to do with caching of the site. We are relying heavily on caching to be able to properly serve all users of the websites. If something goes wrong with the caching on a specific page, moment or area, this could couse the problems.

So please, inform us if you can supply any additional info, such as frequency of this problem, and pages/sections where this might happen.

TRIGGER M4N · October 12th, 2007, 09:36

It happens all the while, infact it's doing it right now. The only page it seems to effect is Xboxic front page, in the Recent Forum Posts section.

Curry · October 15th, 2007, 00:07

To be honest I can't imagine this happening. What happens behind the screens is that the whole tracker bar (so all 7 trackers!) are being fetched simultaneously, and cached simultaneously. Effectively this means it's impossible that only one out of all trackers can be out of date unless the database is lying, which it isn't if the forum itself is working fine.

I also can't reproduce it myself to be honest.

What I'm curious about is how much out of date the trackers appear to be. Because yes, it can be out of date, since the cached trackers are generated once per minute. That technicallly means it can be out of date 60 seconds at worst

Xploited13 · October 15th, 2007, 08:40

My Recent Forum Posts are off by 1.2357 seconds Curry, please get to work. Time is money!

Curry · October 15th, 2007, 09:26

Sage · October 15th, 2007, 20:59

HA! Xboxic is pulling a bungie

Chris · October 15th, 2007, 21:06

Cord?

max2663 · October 16th, 2007, 18:13

my computor doesnt seem to update pages ive already been on until i tell it too so i only go on here on my mums computor because it is beyond annoying

MueR · October 16th, 2007, 18:16

It doesn't update pages? Which pages specifically? What is not updating?

Sage · October 16th, 2007, 21:50

Dont worry it seems to be happenin to a few people right now(two people to be exact)

max2663 · October 16th, 2007, 21:54

yay lets make a club, wait your in s.a. im in wales distant relationships just dont work. anywho sage you rooting for sa in the final

UKJAY · October 16th, 2007, 21:57

anywho...lol

TRIGGER M4N · October 16th, 2007, 22:28

I wasn't talking about seconds out of date, I was talking nearly 24 hours out of date.

Curry · October 16th, 2007, 22:35

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Originally Posted by TRIGGER M4N

I wasn't talking about seconds out of date, I was talking nearly 24 hours out of date.

You are aware that the times shown in that tracker are 24-hour clocks, so that forum posts showing up for 17:02 while it's 15:55 in your place just means you're in a different time zone and your computer's clock is 7 minutes behind?

Sorry, had to ask

If you ever see the suspect behaviour again, please take a screenshot (alt-PrtScr) and make sure to include some articles in the main column and the surrounding trackers. I'm really curious what's happening here, although I'm pretty sure it's not on our side.

As for Max: check the browsers' cache settings on your computer, someone screwed with them to make the computer 'faster' I expect.

max2663 · October 16th, 2007, 22:43

thank you, your my hero

nofear360 · October 16th, 2007, 22:47

max2663 · October 16th, 2007, 23:18

shuandrew · October 16th, 2007, 23:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by max2663

yay lets make a club, wait your in s.a. im in wales distant relationships just dont work. anywho sage you rooting for sa in the final

Hey, Max. Where in Wales are you? I'm living in Swansea.

Curry · October 16th, 2007, 23:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by max2663

thank you, your my hero

Lol they were set to "Do not check for newer versions until cache date expires" or something?

UKJAY · October 17th, 2007, 00:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by max2663

thank you, your my hero

LOL

- send him some pancakes to go with that syrup

Sage · October 17th, 2007, 01:33

Max: SA all the way baby!!!PS lol at long distance relationships

TRIGGER M4N · October 17th, 2007, 03:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curry

You are aware that the times shown in that tracker are 24-hour clocks, so that forum posts showing up for 17:02 while it's 15:55 in your place just means you're in a different time zone and your computer's clock is 7 minutes behind?

Sorry, had to ask

If you ever see the suspect behaviour again, please take a screenshot (alt-PrtScr) and make sure to include some articles in the main column and the surrounding trackers. I'm really curious what's happening here, although I'm pretty sure it's not on our side.

It's when you hover over the link it wills say "last post by curry" when infact that was like 6 posts ago.

_Chris_ · October 18th, 2007, 02:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by shuandrew

Hey, Max. Where in Wales are you? I'm living in Swansea.

Most of my family live in Swansea, i used to be there all the time, now not so much. Though i'm due to go there soon.

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