Website Performance - UPDATE

[dwell]

Hello everyone, I've got the latest update on what we're doing to help LJ's performance.

Speed up the way our user information is pulled out of the database.
The code release we were originally planning for yesterday has been pushed back to at least Monday. dnewhall asked for, and received the SQL patches separate from the main release and pushed out

Comments

[quiet_ingenue]

When you say "unless you are in the ONTD community, your individual journal will not be affected", is that to mean unless we're trying to access the community itself, our own individual journals won't be affected? Like I'm a member of ONTD and I just read it on my friends list, will that affect me or not?

[dwell]

... unless we're trying to access the community itself, our own individual journals won't be affected?

Correct. I was in too much of a rush and didn't explain it correctly. We are only moving ONTD so that is the only journal that will be in read-only mode. Your journal will not be touched, and (except for ONTD), everyone else on your friends list will also not be touched.

bt

[wytchcroft]

then why is my journal, my in box and my comm and flist access so fried???

[dwell]

I was referring specifically to the server move that we are doing tonight at 9PM PDT; ONTD will be placed into read-only mode while that happens so no new posts/comments will be able to be submitted until the move is over for ONTD. no other journals will be put into read-only.

I don't see your journal as read-only, so I'm assuming by fried you mean it's slow? We're trying to fix the slowness and have implemented a fix for 1 specific problem this afternoon (again, PDT) and will enact another part of the solution tonight.

bt

[med_cat]

Thanks for all your hard work and for keeping us "in the know"! :)

[wytchcroft]

except when they don't.

[kangofu]

Unless you are in the ONTD community, your individual journal will NOT be affected.

Wait, is there going to be an issue w/ my LJ? Or just ONTD not showing up on my FList?

[beuk]

I think it would be more precise, although nonsensical to say
Unless you are the ONTD community, your individual journal will NOT be affected.

It'll be in read-only mode and it will be the only journal like that.

[kangofu]

I thought so! Thanks bb!

& Riker <3

[beuk]

oh shoot I didn't close up my comma splice!

Riker is <3

[sarraceniaceae]

Can you tell us where we should direct requests for compensation? While I'm personally mostly not horribly upset at how slow things have been, I've certainly had my issues with LJ. To be honest, my 3 paid rp journals have been nigh-unusable due to the lack of comment notifications for a week (lack of comment notifications in tandem with journals used almost solely for comment spam is kind of an incredibly frustrating combination), and I'd really like extensions for those three.

That said, I am very glad for the fact that you're actively working on performance influences, and hope LJ's performance improves greatly with the patch and server switch. The SQL patch seems to have made LJ loadable again at least!

[moonchildfairy]

I haven't had any problems with LJ over the past weeks, but today has been absolutely horrible. I could barely access the site all day, it either would not load or kept crashing on me, (it just did it again when I was trying to type up this comment).
I hope all the problems will be resolved soon. :-)

[schpydurx]

This minus the "typing this comment" part.

[pandatini]

I haven't had any problems with LJ over the past weeks

wow are you lucky. I wish I could remember what it was like when LJ did work properly :\

[beuk]

I knooooow. I'm not sure how I'll react once LJ works well again.