Database Errors

[Tempest Stormwin]

Having my post edited by you Tempest is a bit irksome. I hope I don't engage in any malicious activities that would warrant such an activity in the future.Â

Back on topic...are we aware of the physical makeup that pushes the site? i.e. 1, 2, 3 servers? Load balancers?

Okay, I'm sorry about that, KotaInka. It's late here, I've been awake about... 65 hours now (insomnia combined with a party where Soul Calibur and Smash Bros were played = no sleep for Tempest), and I'm holding together worse than the forum is, so to speak. At the time it seemed like a good idea to show that it was just a mistype, but now I think it may have been rude. Sorry again, and considering how this is the first time that's ever happened, I'm certain it won't happen again.

All I know about the physical makeup is that it's hosted on the M4D server, which is run by Omero I believe, in Milan, Italy. I don't know more than that.

I'm going to nod off for a while, then. Hopefully both I and the forum will be in better condition when I wake up.

 

[KotaInka2]

Oh no, it's not a problem. Perhaps irksome wasn't the best word choice. It was however psychologically unexpected. In any event, you should probably lay off these Soul Calibur parties if you're supposed to be handling school work anyways. I didn't get up until 8:30 PM, just in time to catch the end of the Roy Jones Jr retelecast and Carnivale at 9. So, I'll be up all night. These are my crazy hours. I wouldn't worry too much about the forum. Sooner or later, it will be worked out.

 

[matt1freek]

good to see its back now..it seemed like nobody on irc knew what was going on..
/me looks to see if ava shows up..

 

[Dragonlord]

Well... back for bad...
What excatly happened to the DB? A forum doesn`t tip over like this if not somebody tried fixing or changing something on the system. Perhaps you should click the down the page for a major workover.
Might be better than trying to fix things while members are posting and modifying the DB.

 

[KrAjO720]

finally, at least we can enter the site... for me it didnt even loaded the past 2 or 3 days¨

for me is working fine now, thanks for cleaning the mess

 

[LuxFerous]

Well... back for bad...
What excatly happened to the DB? A forum doesn`t tip over like this if not somebody tried fixing or changing something on the system. Perhaps you should click the down the page for a major workover.
Might be better than trying to fix things while members are posting and modifying the DB.

Actually a database could mess up on its own.

Something like this could have been caused by a number of things. Upgrade to server software, database bug, forum bug. There are alot more other things that could cause a database error.

As for fixing a database, it would most likely be fairly easy. Possibly just uploading the file with the error in it.

 

[djgarf]

i wasnt getting database errors just couldnt access the site,now it's so slow it's painful ( like surfing on a c64)
hopefully m4d will sort themselves out soon

 

[X-Gamer]

I had problems getting into the site too. It drove me crazy for the whole week-end.

I, too, hope the site will become fully functional soon.

 

[NeoBahamut]

seems like the site is back...(YAY!!!)
But I'm still getting the SQL error.... Oh well... *waits*

-Bahamut Unsummoned-

[EDIT] What IS this SQL anyways??? anyone can explain that thing?

 

[Tempest Stormwin]

OKAY, WE GOT IT.

Error 28, the error we're all getting, means "The disk is full."

Our server got overloaded. We're out of space.

My guess is they're working on getting a new hard drive or something.

ALSO: The portal loads slow. Link directly to a topic (say, this one, since it has the workaround as part of it) instead of to GBATemp.net for the next little while.

-Tempest out.-

 

[Mr.Curlynose1]

Jolly good Tempest

!

Whoa look, Thug is here!

*The Nose Has Left The Building.*

 

[Kyoji]

Full HD eh? I see that as an accomplishment! FREE GROG FOR EVERYONE! Pull out the kegs Tempest, its goign to be a loooong night

 

[Saria]

looks like the forum comes up night time ... very odd - still get errors too

 

[Tempest Stormwin]

The portal loads slow for some people. Try bookmarking a topic and you'll see that the forum's still at the same old speed.

Actually, djnaff on the channel pointed this out to me, but I can't remember his forum name (or even if he has one...). If you see him, pass kudos to him, mmkay?

-Tempest out.-

 

[OldKupo]

Wow, this sucks. Here is my thread, in hopes of geting some views. http://gbatemp.net/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=14090

 

[Saria]

[OffTopic]
KotaInka2 - I got your PM - lemme know if you still want it...
So i can get on IRC - or email it to you even

[OnTopic]
Do PM's work?
I wasnt sure when KotaInka2 sent it... so I didn't try...

If the HDD is full, how come Posts are saved... (?)

 

[Tempest Stormwin]

PM's do indeed work. It seems the place is going fine.

As for the database, I'm no SQL expert (though I'm talking to Mole about it and possible solutions), so I can't answer. The best guess I can get is that we're just using ascii, and that compresses well, so they're being logged. In the meantime, no one upload stuff on the galleries, okay?

-Tempest out.-

 

[x-power]

Thank Tempest

I was about restill my window xp

 

[KotaInka2]

BTW, SQL, often prounounced Sequel is a language for programming databases. Unfortunately, that was the first course I had to take in Graduate School. Fortunately or unfortunately, the professor allowed us to use MS Access instead of actually doing the coding ourselves. From there, after having created the databases, we could have Access generate the SQL code for us as he still wanted that. So, in short, I should know more about it than I do.

 

[CCDART]

I believe the reason people can still post is because while posting with the 1030 error code it's using GZIP compression to keep disk space low.. You should just try contacting the host for more MySQL Disc space.