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Goldstein All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Mar 27 2014 : 6:56PM
Where Have All the Pictures Gone?
All gone from threads.
No placeholders or any indication that anything was ever there.
The files still appear to be in our profile images folder.
BUT, if you try to view them, you get the following error message:
"HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable."
jayo All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Mar 27 2014 : 7:40PM
I've got placeholders. That might be a browser setting. But you're right--the pix themselves are gone.
Drew Black
broken crankshaft

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Posted - Mar 27 2014 : 8:19PM
The web processes that handle the img.adultdvdtalk.com requests all crashed sometime this afternoon.
Harri Patel
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#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele
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3/03
Posted - May 11 2014 : 2:19AM
Pictures aren't displaying here. I'm seeing stuff like
wi3op6wn89onva.jpg
where the picture should be. I can't actually select the "wi3op6wn89onva.jpg" with the mouse, as I would be able to with text.
Drew Black
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Posted - May 11 2014 : 8:52AM
Yes, the web processes that send the images over the wire has been crashing a lot lately. I don't know what's going on with it since I haven't made any changes to that code in a long time. I suspect some recent server software updates must be causing some conflict to happen and the whole process just crashes in an unrecoverable state. I'm working on it.
 
Drew Black
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8011 Posts
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Posted - May 11 2014 : 10:16AM
I made a few changes to the server configuration. Hopefully it's more stable now.
cubesnake
Senior Member

3858 Posts
10/02
Posted - Sep 9 2014 : 6:25PM
Hi,
well, i was about to ask the same question but as of today i can not see any pics either in any thread i´m reading
Cube
Edited by - cubesnake on 9/9/2014 6:45:26 PM
t9c
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Posted - Sep 9 2014 : 6:38PM
^ Here too. Firefox 31.0 Win7/64. Haven't checked on the iPad yet.
stinkfist
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Subterfuge......
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4/07
Posted - Sep 10 2014 : 1:57AM
No pics for me either.
Float_my_boat All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Sep 10 2014 : 2:35AM
Sadly in the same boat of not being able to see the pictures. I'm using OSX 10.9.4
cubesnake
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3858 Posts
10/02
Posted - Sep 10 2014 : 6:15AM
now they seem to work again ... maybe the NSA was jerkign off to them ?
Cube
Drew Black
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9/99
Posted - Sep 10 2014 : 12:16PM
A recent windows update broke something in the way that we handle caching and serving images.
It's usually best to PM me when there's a problem like this.
cubesnake
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3858 Posts
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Posted - Sep 10 2014 : 2:30PM
windows and their updates .. a never ending story about "pain in the ass". Just be sure to dis-able autoupdates :)
Cube
Float_my_boat All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Sep 10 2014 : 11:35PM
^ ^
Thank you Drew. I can now ogle again!
Harri Patel
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3/03
Posted - Sep 11 2014 : 3:27PM
Seems like it's still happening.
EDIT: and no sooner than I post that, the pictures start loading.
Edited by - Harri Patel on 9/11/2014 3:30:26 PM
 
Drew Black
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8011 Posts
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Posted - Sep 11 2014 : 5:31PM
There are 16 server processes that send the images over the wire. They restart every 10 minutes on a rotating basis. So you might notice a brief down time during a recycle phase. Process recycling downtime should only last 5 to 10 seconds. This is a total band-aid approach. I should rewrite the whole process. There are far better ways to accomplish things these days.
Harri Patel
Senior Member

#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele
5110 Posts
3/03
Posted - Mar 2 2015 : 9:29PM
Pictures started being very slow to load late last night for me, and it seems like it's still happening now.
Drew Black
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Posted - Mar 3 2015 : 2:27PM
I completely rewrote the file cache mechanism this afternoon. Hopefully this fixes the problem. Seems to be working well at the moment
Harri Patel
Senior Member

#SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele
5110 Posts
3/03
Posted - Mar 3 2015 : 8:25PM
Thanks. The image-heavy pages are loading normally for me now.
Drew Black
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Posted - Mar 7 2015 : 6:54PM
I've been monitoring this periodically. Seems to be doing better than ever. The new caching process uses much less memory and processor time so I pumped up the number of image-service processes to 16. So the forum code should now be able to service about 1024 simultaneous image requests.



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