Official "thank Xp-cagey, The Site's Back!" Thread

Marik_Steele · January 2005

If you're reading this, you've probably already read the news that XP-Cagey upgraded the forums, both on the hardware and software ends. Assuming the mail functions of the site work, feel free to <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/view?action=mail&id=4105' target='_blank'>use them to thank Cagey</a>

Flayra · January 2005

I don't know how you got to be such an amazing programmer, but you rule.

(here's to making me look good)

KungFuDiscoMonkey · January 2005

Well he did constantly update the compile tools so we could fit more and more into our maps. Seems like a web site should be a piece of cake after that <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

PseudoKnight · January 2005

Awesome job, xp-cagey. Seems to be working like a dream... and faster it seems! We'll soon know as people realize the docking station reopened.

Mr. Epic · January 2005

sounds good! Hopefully it was simply a bug in the old version, and the ram should help <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Traken · January 2005

Cagey is still doing everything around here? Man does he rule! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

This is for you Cagey! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tsa.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tsa.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/hive5.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='hive5.gif' />

Caboose · January 2005

Cagey, You are so flipping cool! When I grow up, I wanna be just like you!

Traken · January 2005

Not sure if this is normal or anything...I got it in the Concepts & Requests forum in the Customization Forum.
<a href='http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs12&d=05035&f=asdasd.JPG' target='_blank'><img src='http://xs12.xs.to/pics/05035/asdasd.JPG.xs.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /></a>
Just a heads up..

TheTitan · January 2005

site and forums work great and fast

Traken, that is NOT normal, but it's pretty funny

Traken · January 2005

Maybe I shouldn't have posted it...might mean more downtime <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' />

Oh noes! The lynchers are coming!! Fly away! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/lerk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='lerk.gif' />

DragonMech · January 2005

Whooo! Not only is the website back online a day early, it's blazing fast. <3 to the Cageman!

BobTheJanitor · January 2005

Thanks for yet another piece of solid tech work. You're an inspiration to us all. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Cagey · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Traken @ Jan 20 2005, 08:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Not sure if this is normal or anything...I got it in the Concepts & Requests forum in the Customization Forum.
<a href='http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs12&d=05035&f=asdasd.JPG' target='_blank'><img src='http://xs12.xs.to/pics/05035/asdasd.JPG.xs.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /></a>
Just a heads up..  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Yeah, it's drfuzzy's sig causing the problem cause it doesn't properly close the table started by the quote tag. Problem's with the ipb parser; I might look for a tweak, but it won't crash the site in the meantime <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />.

On the subject of speed, there's a little bit more config optimization that can be done to improve performance once we know we've squashed the MySQL problem, but stability is the goal for now.

Traken · January 2005

Yay! No lynchers! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Site is blazing fast compared to the first day. Anyone remember that? *cringe*

Ragg · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>- mysql was upgraded and the databases split to multiple 1 gig files (we think the source of the crashes was due to NTFS not being able to handle files over 2 gigs)</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Huh? I have several 4 gig files on my harddisk right now.

Gerald_R_Ford · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ragg @ Jan 21 2005, 12:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>- mysql was upgraded and the databases split to multiple 1 gig files (we think the source of the crashes was due to NTFS not being able to handle files over 2 gigs)</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Huh? I have several 4 gig files on my harddisk right now.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
if so, then they'll find out soon enough that it's not the problem.

Cagey · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ragg @ Jan 20 2005, 09:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>- mysql was upgraded and the databases split to multiple 1 gig files (we think the source of the crashes was due to NTFS not being able to handle files over 2 gigs)</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Huh? I have several 4 gig files on my harddisk right now.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Something was lost in translation <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />

NTFS can and does handle sizes over 2GB. MySQL's InnoDB engine was throwing an aborted Async I/O signal (windows error code 995) and then shutting itself down while attempting to read a 2.6GB file; this problem only was happening for this particular file, which was the only one over 2GB.

The folks at <a href='http://innodb.com' target='_blank'>InnoDB</a> have seen the error but haven't found a cause.

MistenTH · January 2005

Many thanks Cagey <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' />

Now we can all patronise the forums again with our same fervent rabidness.

Comprox · January 2005

I do agree, the site seems really snappy now, like a fresh pair of... socks?

Redford · January 2005

Cagey is your god.

Whoever has hired this man clearly doesn't pay him enough, whatever he gets payed.

Mendasp · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Redford @ Jan 21 2005, 08:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Cagey is your god.

Whoever has hired this man clearly doesn't pay him enough, whatever he gets payed.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Seconded.

ultranewb · January 2005

Sounds like MySQL using a signed 32bit integer where it shouldn't be ...

AngryMonkeys · January 2005

I agree with the good work getting the site back, and thankyou for the efforts everyone has put in, well done. However...

This site is (as far as im aware) the foundation of support/community for natural selection (i.e unknown worlds). It has thousands of visiters, gigabytes of traffic, and if I was an investor I would take the running/development of this site as a reflection of the people behind NS.

Yet...its allowed to go down on what seems a regular basis with no (apparant) thought of redundancy, mirroring or use of any of the other totally free stability enhancing technologies out there. I mean, personal websites containing your family photo album, sure, take it offline for upgrades...but surly something as big/important (from a business point of view to flayra/UW) as this site should have some kind of temporary mirror or something in place.

Im not having a go, I appreciate the site and game and the work everyone puts in...but from a business point of view it could have been handled better. Not saying the whole site should have stayed up (i know the forum consolidation afterwards from a mirror site would be a nightmare), but the download of the game, game information, investor info etc should have stayed up.

Im sure theres plenty of us in the community who are able to mirror the site in times of outage. In fact, take this as an offer from me as a starter.

Jez.

Scythe · January 2005

<3 Cagey

--Scythe--

napi · January 2005

so much lurve!

/me bids on eBay for Cagey's pance!!!

Swiftspear · January 2005

My compliments already in the LM forums, just want to say I called this one <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Spooge · January 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cagey @ Jan 21 2005, 01:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ragg @ Jan 20 2005, 09:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>- mysql was upgraded and the databases split to multiple 1 gig files (we think the source of the crashes was due to NTFS not being able to handle files over 2 gigs)</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Huh? I have several 4 gig files on my harddisk right now.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Something was lost in translation <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />

NTFS can and does handle sizes over 2GB. MySQL's InnoDB engine was throwing an aborted Async I/O signal (windows error code 995) and then shutting itself down while attempting to read a 2.6GB file; this problem only was happening for this particular file, which was the only one over 2GB.

The folks at <a href='http://innodb.com' target='_blank'>InnoDB</a> have seen the error but haven't found a cause.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
you're smarter than me. I like that.

Good work <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

Fog_cartoons · January 2005

Nice one mate, the Europeans salute you

Malevolent · January 2005

Thank you so, so much. The site is much better to browse on now.

obuh · January 2005

Great job, many thanks to you.

Zaggy · January 2005

<img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/363/redbravepray5yl.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/363/redbravepray5yl.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/363/redbravepray5yl.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/363/redbravepray5yl.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/363/redbravepray5yl.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/4612/static8or.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/4612/static8or.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/4612/static8or.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/4612/static8or.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /><img src='http://img127.exs.cx/img127/4612/static8or.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

Yay Cagey!

Official "thank Xp-cagey, The Site's Back!" Thread

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