Server to busy

[JEEPRUSTY]

maybe its the needle?

[blowerbike]

The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

[Allie]

Yep I'm still getting it, it seems to happen more often later at night oddly enough. No matter, there are usually 500 other things I can be doing at any time (even 1 in the morning lol) so I just do other stuff when it happens. Frank'll get round to fixing it. Remember folks he's 'of a certain age', he don't move like he used to .

[Grimly]

If the server is at the end of a rural party line in deepest darkest Potatoville, I can understand the bottleneck problem.

[blowerbike]

Yep I'm still getting it, it seems to happen more often later at night oddly enough. No matter, there are usually 500 other things I can be doing at any time (even 1 in the morning lol) so I just do other stuff when it happens. Frank'll get round to fixing it. Remember folks he's 'of a certain age', he don't move like he used to .

Frank ain't that old...he could be out doing the birthday boogie Today's Birthdays

• Baatfam (59),
• administrator (58)

[Allie]

Frank ain't that old...he could be out doing the birthday boogie Today's Birthdays

• Baatfam (59),
• administrator (58)

Eek I better chuddup, that don't look so old to me anymore. Happy Birthday to two swell guys!

[Rob S.]

I'm not sure if it's gotten better or worse in the past week, but it's pretty bad.

[Jedz123]

maybe its the needle?

Then my damn stack is mostly needles then! More like finding hay. I was on here twice tonight during work, Lunch at 10pm and the 15 minute break at 11:45 pm each time I got the same prompt... after hitting refresh 15 times I got on!

[Brendan W]

If it's any help to the unseen persons working on this thankless task, from my side it only happens about one visit in five and always immediately after logging in.

[JEEPRUSTY]

so the server is too busy and you keep hitting refresh in the false belief that it will solve the problem?

[Jedz123]

15 Time was an exaggeration. I'll hit it a couple times in a few minutes and I usually connect pretty quickly. It seems to me there is a limit of users allowed on at a time. So in hopes there is a "spot open" I hit refresh so I can nab it and read posts.

[Allie]

Just thinking out loud, I wonder if my habit of searching the keywords 'JEEPRUSTY' and 'drama queen' and then hitting 'refresh' every 6 seconds all day long could be affecting server performance?

[Redman]

Frank......?

Frank,

Would I be correct, in that "Server Too Busy" does not necessarily mean "GSR too busy".....?

Maybe the "server" also handles other websites/forums also, and as such, could be too much activity on multiple other things...or maybe not specifically the computer that is the server, but the switch/hub/routers or other with the service provider....?

When it happens to me, I just go to some of the other things I do online for a while and come back in a few minutes, or not. SOmetimes good then, sometimes not.

Anyway, .... Frank, Any comment?


Dave

[JEEPRUSTY]

suuuuuure I have dealt with your type in desktop support. Always coming to me for a new mouse with a dead one in tow sporting a broken left click button.

[JEEPRUSTY]

the greater the complexity of the search string the greater the load.
I wonder if the curmudgeons constant whining about folks not using the search function is the root of the problem.
I don't really wonder.........not at all.