Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred in recent times. We are working with our provide

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread SomeDude
On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 14:50:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup reade

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread deadalnix
Le 03/05/2012 16:50, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 05/03/2012 01:52 PM, deadalnix wrote: Le 03/05/2012 16:50, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth s

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 01:51:20PM -0700, Ali Çehreli wrote: > On 05/03/2012 01:52 PM, deadalnix wrote: > >Le 03/05/2012 16:50, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : > >>Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and > >>increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when > >

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/3/2012 1:52 PM, deadalnix wrote: It was so anoying when posting a message and *pof* « error your message is lost ». Youch. I didn't realize that was happening. I post from Thunderbird, and if it fails you just try it again. Anyhow, thanks to Jan Knepper for hosting us and figuring out

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 04-05-2012 00:47, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/3/2012 1:52 PM, deadalnix wrote: It was so anoying when posting a message and *pof* « error your message is lost ». Youch. I didn't realize that was happening. I post from Thunderbird, and if it fails you just try it again. I use Thunderbird too

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 20:45:24 UTC, deadalnix wrote: It was so anoying when posting a message and *pof* « error your message is lost ». For the record: forum.dlang.org doesn't do this.

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"deadalnix" wrote in message news:jnuqp4$2hs8$1...@digitalmars.com... > > It was so anoying when posting a message and *pof* « error your message is > lost ». That's one of the reasons I avoid web-based things whenever possible.

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Alex Rønne Petersen" wrote in message news:jnv2c1$319r$2...@digitalmars.com... > > As far as I can see, Thunderbird doesn't save sent NNTP messages anywhere > unless you explicitly tell it to. :( > Outlook Express does ;)

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 07:50:30PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Alex R�nne Petersen" wrote in message > news:jnv2c1$319r$2...@digitalmars.com... > > > > As far as I can see, Thunderbird doesn't save sent NNTP messages > > anywhere unless you explicitly tell it to. :( [...] I'm skeptical of a

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 04-05-2012 01:50, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Alex Rønne Petersen" wrote in message news:jnv2c1$319r$2...@digitalmars.com... As far as I can see, Thunderbird doesn't save sent NNTP messages anywhere unless you explicitly tell it to. :( Outlook Express does ;) I try to stay away from Wind

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/3/2012 3:54 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: I use Thunderbird too, and one of my messages actually *did* get lost. I wrote the message, hit send, and then right after it "finished" sending the message, an NG error popped up and the message was lost. As far as I can see, Thunderbird doesn't s

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread bioinfornatics
Le jeudi 03 mai 2012 à 15:47 -0700, Walter Bright a écrit : > On 5/3/2012 1:52 PM, deadalnix wrote: > > It was so anoying when posting a message and *pof* « error your message is > > lost ». > > Youch. I didn't realize that was happening. I post from Thunderbird, and if > it > fails you just tr

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-03 Thread Jeff Nowakowski
On 05/03/2012 10:50 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-04 Thread Regan Heath
On Thu, 03 May 2012 23:25:26 +0100, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 01:51:20PM -0700, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 05/03/2012 01:52 PM, deadalnix wrote: >Le 03/05/2012 16:50, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : >>Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and >>increasingly freq

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/4/12 2:26 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: On 05/03/2012 10:50 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-04 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Fri, 04 May 2012 05:00:10 -0400, Regan Heath wrote: Opera does this right too :) Yeah, I still have all my sent posts in opera... One thing that annoys me though, if a message doesn't get sent, it stays in your outbox. Then when you double-click on it to edit/resend, it's been refo

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-04 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 03.05.2012 22:51, schrieb Ali Çehreli: On 05/03/2012 01:52 PM, deadalnix wrote: Le 03/05/2012 16:50, Andrei Alexandrescu a écrit : Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-04 Thread Ali Çehreli
On 05/04/2012 02:27 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > FWIW it seemed to be just a configuration issue. Perhaps not solved yet? I just hit the same problem about fifteen minutes ago. Ali

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-04 Thread SomeDude
On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 14:50:09 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup reade

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-04 Thread SomeDude
On Saturday, 5 May 2012 at 06:04:51 UTC, SomeDude wrote: I don't know if someone was working on the NNTP server this morning, but it was really, really bad for a couple of minutes. I got "XHR error" and nothing else. Then it wen't back to normal. 20 mn later, it's slow again.

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-07 Thread Robert Clipsham
On 03/05/2012 15:50, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred in

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-07 Thread Ary Manzana
On 5/7/12 10:25 PM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 03/05/2012 15:50, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth sp

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-10 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Thu, 03 May 2012 10:50:13 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup rea

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-12 Thread Kagamin
NNTP error: 400 load at 17.54, try later

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-12 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 03-05-2012 16:50, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred in

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
On 03.05.2012 18:50, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred in

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread David Nadlinger
On Saturday, 12 May 2012 at 10:16:45 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: I can barely make contact with the newsgroup server at this point... any news on upping the server capacity? The idea that any reasonably-sized machine shouldn't be able to run a fairly small newsgroup server these days still

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread Kagamin
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Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread Dmitry Olshansky
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Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 5/14/12 1:40 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 14.05.2012 22:06, Kagamin wrote: I wonder if something like this will be more painful? http://www.freewebhostingarea.com/ Or rather a cheap dedicated VPS box. http://buyvm.net/ 15$/year ? The issue seems to be different than sheer computing powe

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 14-05-2012 21:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/14/12 1:40 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 14.05.2012 22:06, Kagamin wrote: I wonder if something like this will be more painful? http://www.freewebhostingarea.com/ Or rather a cheap dedicated VPS box. http://buyvm.net/ 15$/year ? The issu

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread Kagamin
I swear MySQL can handle 168K records at once.

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread Mirko Pilger
They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred in recent times. a possible solution could include to encourage more people on this newsgroup to learn how to quote. :)

Re: Growing pains

2012-05-14 Thread Era Scarecrow
On Monday, 14 May 2012 at 20:23:25 UTC, Kagamin wrote: I swear MySQL can handle 168K records at once. I wonder why it can't just go on a queue that gives you some 30 seconds before timing out and giving you an error message? It makes me wonder if distributed computing could come to the r

D growing pains (was Re: The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!)

2009-12-15 Thread Kevin Bealer
retard Wrote: > Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:42:26 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > > Most likely Walter won't even tell what kind of arrays D2 will have. > Anything can happen. The final word is the undocumented executable you > can download when the book hits stores. Even then dmd's behavior isn't

Re: D growing pains (was Re: The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!)

2009-12-15 Thread Walter Bright
Kevin Bealer wrote: To smooth this out, it would help to have the best practices for doing common things in D (e.g. serialization, logging) somewhat documented for the consumption of non-experts. I wonder what a good way of doing this is? It's really impossible to predict what the best practic

Re: D growing pains (was Re: The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!)

2009-12-16 Thread bearophile
Walter Bright: > Only time and usage will tell. The "best practices" for both C and C++ have > evolved significantly over time. I hope D2 will change itself a little (into D3) to adapt itself to such "best practices", to make them more natural, more easy to use, etc. Bye, bearophile

Re: D growing pains (was Re: The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!)

2009-12-16 Thread Jesse Phillips
Kevin Bealer Wrote: > retard Wrote: > > > Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:42:26 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > > > > Most likely Walter won't even tell what kind of arrays D2 will have. > > Anything can happen. The final word is the undocumented executable you > > can download when the book hits stor

Re: D growing pains (was Re: The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!)

2009-12-17 Thread Kevin Bealer
Walter Bright Wrote: > Kevin Bealer wrote: > > To smooth this out, it would help to have the best practices for > > doing common things in D (e.g. serialization, logging) somewhat > > documented for the consumption of non-experts. I wonder what a good > > way of doing this is? > > It's really im

Re: D growing pains (was Re: The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!)

2009-12-18 Thread Lars T. Kyllingstad
Kevin Bealer wrote: Walter Bright Wrote: Kevin Bealer wrote: To smooth this out, it would help to have the best practices for doing common things in D (e.g. serialization, logging) somewhat documented for the consumption of non-experts. I wonder what a good way of doing this is? It's really i

Re: D growing pains (was Re: The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!)

2009-12-18 Thread Don
Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: Kevin Bealer wrote: Walter Bright Wrote: Kevin Bealer wrote: To smooth this out, it would help to have the best practices for doing common things in D (e.g. serialization, logging) somewhat documented for the consumption of non-experts. I wonder what a good way of

Re: D growing pains (was Re: The Demise of Dynamic Arrays?!)

2009-12-18 Thread Bane
Lars T. Kyllingstad Wrote: > Kevin Bealer wrote: > > Walter Bright Wrote: > > > >> Kevin Bealer wrote: > >>> To smooth this out, it would help to have the best practices for > >>> doing common things in D (e.g. serialization, logging) somewhat > >>> documented for the consumption of non-experts.