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Permalink Reply by Joe Aldridge on March 2, 2011 at 17:45

TD, There is someone that is causing a problem when they are online. The Online bar will go to 19/20 and gets stuck. I X out of the online bar when that happens. The rest of the site is OK though. Is this the problem you are seeing?

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Permalink Reply by P.G. on March 3, 2011 at 2:55

Online bar?

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on March 3, 2011 at 4:06

I am kinda with Linda about it first happening when the main page thing was removed. I am not having problems with other sites. My motherboard blew a couple of weeks back so I gutted the rig replaced motherboard, cpu & ram. I was able to open this tread with no problem but it took about 3 minutes to go from the first page to the second page. The weakest point of my rig is the hard drive which is a 7200 RPM spinner. I think that I am going to go to a solid state HD but that shouldn't be my problem.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Whatley on March 3, 2011 at 4:24

Two Dogs,

 

I have a new PC with lots of power, or at least I think so!  I'm not a computer guru, so I don't know exactly what I have........ what's a 7200 RPM spinner???  Anyway, I just know everything was working fine up until some changes were made to GHS a few weeks ago.  I notified Keith, so maybe he'll figure things out and get us back to normal.

 

I had trouble trying to get this post added...... hope it takes this time.

 

Have a great day!

 

Linda

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Permalink Reply by Skip Peel - Mineral Consultant on March 3, 2011 at 4:32

There have been a number of changes made to the site.  Member feedback is important to help Keith.

 

Report problems to Keith.

 

http://www.gohaynesvilleshale.com/main/index/report

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Permalink Reply by P.G. on March 3, 2011 at 4:41

what's a 7200 RPM spinner???

 

Probably means he isn't using a SSD...

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on March 3, 2011 at 4:47

Linda a 7200 RPM spinner is your run of the mill hard drive. I don't trust these types of hard drives. I have a stack off dead ones. I am not for sure about when the problems with GHS started but since the rebuild of my computer I have been having problems with GHS. Not only is the loading slow but when typing the words sometimes don't show up.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Whatley on March 3, 2011 at 5:23

I'm experiencing a lag when composing email on GHS.  It just shows lines like this ////////// when I first start typing.

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Permalink Reply by Keith Mauck (Site Publisher) on March 3, 2011 at 8:32

I don't have any issue on my end.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Duke on March 3, 2011 at 9:19

You are probably sitting next to your server or servers, right? Or do you have someone host GHS?  It is my wild guess that the problem is all the constantly updated content, which puts a load on the network interconnect; I am sitting in the Seattle area with Comcast, and while in theory they are good, the reality is there is so much network demand that actual broadband throughput is pretty darned low (in 100's of kbits/sec, not mbits/sec).  Still, I see my cpu getting pegged all the time by site activity - all this whizbang stuff with web software tends to eat up a lot of horsepower (I used to be a Microsoft developer, but low level stuff, so I am not a web weeny - but I know web weenies, and what they tell me is that the stuff is horrendously inefficient).  So in my case it is probably a double whammy - low net bandwidth combined with a single cpu (fast, but only one, so when GHS takes it all, the machine crawls) and only a GB or so of memory.  I have a faster machine I will migrate to one of these days; it does handle the site better, but has problems with logon to GHS that I have not tracked down yet.  It has always been my opinion (I fought this issue at Microsoft) that an application should be designed to work well on lower end machines, rather than the fastest machines available.  I would bet that if some of the update rates on the sidebars (photos, users online, etc.) were slowed down, the site might be overall more responsive, but that is a guess.

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Permalink Reply by P.G. on March 3, 2011 at 9:31

I wonder if it could be a flawed Microsoft patch that might be working fine on some machines but not others...depending upon the software mix installed.. or perhaps malware..

With Linux, I haven't noticed any issues..

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Permalink Reply by Robert Duke on March 3, 2011 at 10:03

Always possible; I do have virus s/w of course and firewall, and stay fully patched.  I have not looked into browser efficiencies lately but that could be an issue too.   I do think upgrading to Win 7 is becoming more attractive (just an old machine, and such upgrading can be asking for trouble).  Which Linux do you use?  I have had lots of RH Linux machines for work in academia, and always just used windows for regular office stuff - the Linux browsers were just bombarded with ad junk and I never bothered to figure out how to filter it.  Maybe something better is now running on Ubuntu?  I think the base problem I have is a slow internet connect (even though it is broadband) and really old h/w that can't handle a lot of whiz-bang very smoothly.

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