why is there always someone anonymously lurking on the BBS checking who's online?

Stand up and identify yourself!!



Murray
Go-Wit-Da-Fro

I use an anonymous account to get stats from the BBS

Frank van Gestel

1 down, 20 odd to go.

I ddn't know you could do that. well, well, well.

Can certainly see the slashdot effect recently

Murray
Go-Wit-Da-Fro

It's me, Murray. Did I do wrong?

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

And probably another one of thems is Tonys program that lets him know as soon as someone has posted to the board ...

(list 6284, Mk1 S/N 00299 4GB blue [for sale]. Mk2 S/N 080000094 26GB blue)

Just out of curiousity ... Mind sharing the mrtg.cfg file on that ? I have an idea how you did it but I wanna be sure.

Cheers,
Hans

Mk2 - Blue & Red - 080000431

No kidding. Who is the fool who reported the EOL to slashdot? Its been difficult to read the board the past week.

Sean

No, the white font and lines thing isn't in the config file. I modified the source. I can lookup the changes if you would like them.
here's the perl script used to obtain the values :

#!/usr/bin/perl



use IO::Socket;



$remote = IO::Socket::INET->new(

        Proto    => "tcp",

        PeerAddr => "empeg.comms.net",

        PeerPort => "80",

        ) or die "cannot connect to www port at empeg.comms.net";

$remote->autoflush(1);

print $remote "GET /php/online.php HTTP/1.0\nHost: empeg.comms.net\n\n";

my $REG=-1;

my $ANON=-1;

while (<$remote>) {

        if ( $_ =~ /\>(\d+) Registered User\(s\)\./ ) { $REG=$1 }

        if ( $_ =~ /\>(\d+) Anonymous User\(s\)\./ ) { $ANON=$1 }

}

$ANON--;

print "$REG\n$ANON\n0\nempeg.comms.net\n";

close($remote);

exit 0;

Frank van Gestel

My program doesn't log in as Anonymous, it logs in as me. So the Anonymous one is probably the stat-checker.

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Tony Fabris

The number of anonymous lurkers during that week was incredible.

If only they'd all buy an empeg, err a RioCar, the EOL might be re thought.

Murray
Go-Wit-Da-Fro

The number of anonymous lurkers during that week was incredible.

But now that the week is over, my BBS access is still abysmally slow. Anyone else getting this? Usage seems to be back to normal, but it takes up to a minute after a given click before any results appear for me.

This could be a routing issue, because (a) it only happens from my work ISP, not from my home ISP, and (b) it seems to clear up at certain times of day.

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Tony Fabris

Hi.

I do also get long loading delays when watching threads. This page (the one with the reply form) loaded almost immediately, so I would says it is not a routing problem (as both pages are routed the same), but probably a database server issue.
I get this delaying on my home ISP as well as at work.

cu,
sven

proud MkII owner (12GB blue/green/smoked, was #080000113 is #090001010)

I guess the NIMDA-virus is still active. At work about 10 infected machines were able to bring down the complete network.
I still see a lot of infected machines in my webserver log and I think the empeg BBS is suffering the same problems.

Frank van Gestel

I'm still getting this too. It's slooow as a snail. 'cept this page.. the reply too for some reason...


|| loren.cox ||

I seems solved now. Probably a looping process...

Frank van Gestel

I seems solved now. Probably a looping process...

No, it always seems to clear up for me after 4pm pacific US time. It just cleared up for me within the last few minutes, and it's 4:08 pm pacific. I think I'll ask Paul about it...

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Tony Fabris

It just occurred to me that 4pm pacific time is midnight UK time. I'll bet there's a cleanup process firing at midnight or something.

I wonder why it gets dog-slow for me up until then? I've got a message in to Paul in case he knows.

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Tony Fabris

could be the case, but I was suffering from delays from 21:00 GMT. I would think the slowdown would start at 0:00 GMT if it was a maintenance job.

Frank van Gestel

No, the slowdown gets CLEARED UP at 0:00 GMT. I wasn't suggesting that the maintenance task CAUSED the problem, I suggested that it SOLVED the problem.

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Tony Fabris

I was just thinking about posting this question. I'm pleased it's not just me that's finding it slow in the extreme.

Marcus (beaker)
32 gig (various colours)

yeap, happened again today. Just cleared up. It's gotta be something on the server... the RioReciever BBS is having the same issues.


|| loren.cox ||

Paul says that Apache restarts at midnight, so it could be something related to that, i.e., that restarting Apache clears up something and solves the problem for us.

Maybe he could program it so Apache restarts every hour.

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Tony Fabris

That might be overkill =]... BUT if it was set to restart a couple times a day maybe we could narrow down when it happens. Seems like a memory leak or something... that or some processes that are just going haywire and not dying and hogging up memory. Hrmm...


|| loren.cox ||

I am sure it will be fine when all the slashdotters forget about this bbs

32Gig MK2 In 2001 VW Golf TDI

I'm surprised they remembered for more than 3 minutes!

Murray
Go-Wit-Da-Fro

It's something on the server side, It's not due to a ton of users. At least i don't see how it would be. It stops being sluggish at 4pm PST for the past few days.


|| loren.cox ||

everyone goes home from work at 4:00 ? :-)

32Gig MK2 In 2001 VW Golf TDI

I haven't really had the problems you're talking about. I live in Brisbane, Australia which is GMT+10, so you'd think I'd have problems early in the morning (my time) until 10am or so. I find that the BBS is pretty good at most times.

Murray
Go-Wit-Da-Fro

It was sluggish this morning, but seems to have cleared up now. Other reason i'd say it was DB or CPU related, is cause the HTML at the top draws right away, it just takes longer to draw all the dynamic stuff. ah well. =]


|| loren.cox ||

The reason it's faster now is because Paul rebooted the server about mid-day. The server was running out of swap space or something. We'll see tomorrow if it's still slow or not.

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Tony Fabris