[ADMIN] Future hosting of ILX (Part 8080)

My sense is that, when ILX is reopened with the intention of long term stability, that about 3 or 4 days' worth of the pre-crash threads ought to be displayed to anyone who arrives there. This should cut down considerably on the new arrivals bashing the search function.

would it work if it was open but if jimmy riddle was banned? if you open it real quick the first 51 in can help out

maybe we should just not do ilm could be a solution

haha
i didnt search anything. I just started 2 threads

and were they really worth it

Yeah this is still on Amazon. The setup is largely the same as before -- mysql, tomcat and apache -- but it's somehow consuming massive amounts of memory. It's not the actual caches, they're staying about 500mb (which is what I'd expect), but I am seeing free memory steadily dwindle to nowt.

There's two big differences from the old box -- one is that we're running on the OpenJRE instead of the Oracle one (we used to be on the Sun JRE), and the other is that the recreated Lucene search index is now a massive 4gb file (it was previously chunks built up over time).

I am first of all going to try disabling the search and see how it goes with that, and failing that will shift to the Oracle JRE.

It's hugely annoying that the next size of server up is 8gb of memory and $150/month but if that's what it takes so be it.

as a hilarious behavioural experiement can we try an 'essential ilx' where people only try to post things that are worthwhile and important

^ lol

^rite

well one was nominations thread for metal poll

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6pLn_rF4_c

as a hilarious behavioural experiement can we try an 'essential ilx' where people only try to post things that are worthwhile and important

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ilf reduced to the gareth bale v. theo walcott thread
ilm reduced to rolling gun sounds and rolling r&b thread and maybe something metal and steely dan
ile just that thread about trucker hats on couches and any thread surmounter ever started

just let me know if we won't be back by the Oscars

^^ itchy thread-trigger finger

i seriously miss ilxor

I didn't even know there was a Miss Ilxor contest!

We're gonna bring a case of wine
Hey, let's go mess and fool around
You know, like we used to

thanks for everything stet

my new year resolution is: i want my ilx

+1

Thanks for everything.

Thanks for getting ILX up again before the Oz Open tennis, and for all your hard work generally.

Will all the old threads from the old site ever be accessible? Sorry if this ? has already come up....

They are OK, they are in cryogenic freeze next to Ted Williams's head

Have tweaked this and fiddled that and turned on ILX again. It looks a lot healthier this time, so here's hoping. If it conks again, will need to get the big guns in.

Sweeet, so far so good. Thanks, stet!

Dumb question, but how do I set zing back to ilx (not sandbox)?

Just change the instance setting to "ILX"

ilxor.com is still redirecting to the sandbox btw. direct link http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/index.jsp

Yes -- want to keep it that way. I want to add load back slowly so I can be sure it's working. Right now it seems OK, and has been up longer than any previous attempt, but it's a quiet time generally.

ok cool.

got a tomcat error (which i didn't save sorry) when i logged in, but i manually visited /ILX after that and i was logged in ok.

I never reset zing to sandbox for that very reason

Also had trouble over there posting from zing for some unknown reason

It Is A Mystery

OK, problem was I had logged myself off fooling around with the settings.

THANK YOU!

are we back now?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/

are we back now?

YES

so old skool ilx is kinda slow right now?

seems fine to me

Slow for me too -- 3-4 seconds for SNA page load. But it's better than it was a couple of hours ago.

As soon as I say that, now it's loading instantly.

yah its been intermittently slow for me

slow for me,as has sandbox

I no longer even have a working login for "real" ILX - can someone who's managed to log in pls be a dear and tell me if it's still got SB before I bother going to the trouble of reregistering? I've enjoyed it here but I'm not going back to that stress.

Yeah, the new ILX does seem to be quite slow. After I clicked "login", it took half a minute before it actually logged in.

FT, regular ILX hasn't changed at all, and so, yes, does still have SB.

OK, thanks for letting me know.

yeah, prohibitively slow in both spaces now.

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