Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations

Subject: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Amos
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 11:20 PM

I am sure others have noticed this, but I thought I would post it.

Although the 'Cat has had plenty of hiccups in the last few months, they are getting fewer and fewer. SO that's a very good thing for those of us who gobble up its bandwidth every day.

But even more impressive is the quantum leap in speed of response it has been showingin the last 6-10 weeks, I think. I can load the whole MOAB thread in descending order without killing the Cat or crashing any processes, in under about 40 secs generally, and other, more normal-size requests come zooming back in a second or perhaps three. This is head and shoulders above the performance we had in 2003 and earlier. LOng DB searches are similarly significantly faster.

So, Max and Jeff, it is clear something right is going on. Well done.

A

insult and string of responses to insult removed - joeclone

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 03:53 AM

Well Amos while I don't want to piss on your campfire, or to add to Max's problems, I must respectfully disagree with you old bean. Down there in sunny San Diego you are still in your pit when I fire up here in 'the old country' and sadly almost 50% of the time Mudcat is unavailable at that time of day. Also for the last few nights it has been kicking us all out of the Chatroom with monotonous regularity, and it's fast getting to the stage when I just don't bother to go back after I've been kicked out, preferring instead to rendezvous on another site. There has been a small improvement since Max hooked up a different machine a bit ago, but the system is still obviously creaking at the joints. Still Max is working on it, and I hope some volunteers who responded to his appeal for help, so we can but await results.
Still bitch occasionally, but that's just frustration.
Giok

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:17 AM

I do find that most of the searches don't, and this is embarrassing when often the first response to a question is "Did you do a asearch".

Am I the only person to find this?

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Amos
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 08:50 AM

Giok:

So you haven't noticed the interrupts are less frequent and the speed improved?

Tsk. I am such an optimist, I must have imagined the improvements! :D

A

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: MMario
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 08:55 AM

I haven't had any problems with searches - and there seems to be a definate lessening in the amount of downtime - but then again I am in synch with Mudcat timewise.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 09:03 AM

Amos, apart from my own obsevations, I do have comments made on the Annexe to go by (I've a fairly good record of when some people find problems there, not written by me) in terms of MC reliability and the record has not been as you say (although mostly better than the time of the bad disk).

Monday 22nd was so bad I was reading comments from others like:

It's up!
It's down!
It's up!
It's down!

I'm getting seasick!

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It's down!
It's up!
It's down!

It's less like a Mudcat... and more like a toilet seat at a mixed party...

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These comments were made by various people most of whom one would not consider critics of Mudcat.

All that said, I wonder whether the extreme failures we witnessed on Monday were perhaps in part symptoms of re-boots while another configuration was set up.

It has been my observation, this time supported by lack of comments from others that matters have improved since then so perhaps another effort was made. Tuesday was good and today so far has been good.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 09:43 AM

it's up often enough to complain about it. It's up every day. I wish it were perfect also, but I manage. (It IS harder for those in distant time zones, when Mudcat goes down in the middle of the night when the official pants-kickers are getting a bit of sleep... I dunno what to do about that...)

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 09:49 AM

I'm not complaing Bill, just a bit put off by the opening observation.

The most common down time by far is the one I wake up to and that certainly when all good people in MCland would be asleep but there is also the more curios one, again perhaps with a logical explaination. UK chattime is often bad. Say 6-7pm Mudcat time.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:04 AM

I guess 6-7 is when it is getting tired after a long day....*shrug*

Isn't it interesting to have our lives so controlled by the least reliable appliance in the house? Now if we just communicated by toaster, we'd be MUCH happier...*wry grin*

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: MMario
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:09 AM

toasters tend to inject to much heat into a conversation.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:11 AM

But if bread would pop up occasionally...

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: s&r
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:14 AM

My recent experience has been that when it's down, the return to normal seems quicker - usually within ten minutes or so.

Stu

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: kendall
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:24 AM

The chat just crashed.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 12:21 PM

It's already like a toaster - always popping up and down...

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Janie
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 01:00 PM

*gasp* I've been deleted! I'm gonna tell The Shambles on you;^)

Janie

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Cluin
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:42 PM

The long threads, especially if you try and load them with the "d" take a looooong time to access, often hanging and timing out.

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: open mike
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 07:33 PM

why would you even want to "load the whole MOAB thread" any way??

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 09:09 PM

I don't know about the rest of you, but MY toaster never "pops down." Only pops up. The Mudcat has been faster when it's up, and the crashes seem to last less time.

My main thought: beggars can't be choosers. Few of us probably pay anywhere near (through direct cash offerings or auction items) our share of what Mudcat is worth to us. If we paid to be here, then the whining might be legitimate.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Dani
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:16 PM

It's sure been available and up more than anything ELSE in my life, toasters included.

Thanks, Max et al.

Dani

Subject: RE: Tech: Hi, Max, and Congratulations
From: Celtaddict
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 01:00 AM

"Isn't it interesting to have our lives so controlled by the least reliable appliance in the house?"
Thread drift, taking this back to music:

The ways of man are passing strange:
He buys his freedom and he counts his change,
Then he lets the wind his days arrange,
And he calls the tide his master.

Thanks for all your efforts, Max; no idea what we would do without you; suppose that is why folks are dismayed when the 'Cat is not there for them. I think it is great that we are so worldwide that no matter what the time of day, someone is on!