Pages: 1 2  Next -- Posted by davjs at 2:56 am on May 10, 2006 I have received many messages from members asking me what the heck is going on with LiveWire. It's a problem with lack of memory. The amount of data that we ask the server to work with is immense. I have decided to do something I would rather not do, but I feel it's necessary. I have taken 60% of archived topics offline. They are safely stored, but not accessible. Thus, the amount of data the server must shunt into memory has been effectively cut in half. I have also doubled LiveWire's working memory (RAM) from 2GB to 4GB. I have also disabled Topic History from appearing directly in the sidebar. This removes a dependency and increases overall reliability. I'm as curious as you are to know if these changes will mean overall stability. -- Posted by honey bunny at 2:59 am on May 10, 2006 fingers crossed. -- Posted by iloveto at 3:06 am on May 10, 2006 Quote: from honey bunny at 7:29 pm on May 10, 2006 fingers crossed. Yeh, fingers crossed.. Still, you're doing a good job at what is keeping hundreds of teens a day busy, and gaining advice.. -- Posted by Stygian Amour at 3:07 am on May 10, 2006 Quote: from iloveto at 6:06 am on May 10, 2006 Quote: from honey bunny at 7:29 pm on May 10, 2006 fingers crossed. Yeh, fingers crossed.. Still, you're doing a good job at what is keeping hundreds of teens a day busy, and gaining advice.. I totally agree. -- Posted by falling angel13 at 3:10 am on May 10, 2006 Quote: from iloveto at 8:06 pm on May 10, 2006 Quote: from honey bunny at 7:29 pm on May 10, 2006 fingers crossed. Yeh, fingers crossed.. Still, you're doing a good job at what is keeping hundreds of teens a day busy, and gaining advice.. thats very true! good job! -- Posted by Dig For Fire at 3:12 am on May 10, 2006 Someone fix my throat. -- Posted by Aussietom at 3:18 am on May 10, 2006 Sounds good. Thanks once again, David. But still, fingers crossed. -- Posted by Orangelaffytaffy at 3:19 am on May 10, 2006 Thanks for all that you have done and keep doing. I lurve livewire regardless. -- Posted by Whimsical at 3:19 am on May 10, 2006 Good luck? -- Posted by pleaseremove at 3:21 am on May 10, 2006 Glad to hear you are working on the problems. I have to say, when the server was up i was seeing memory utilisation of around 65% upwards, but not often over 80% Is this just part of the problem or was i watching my control panel at the wrong times? Also, if i remember correctly, the fresh topics list expands when more people are using LW. Would it not be prudent to removing this function? -- Posted by MoonlitEden at 3:42 am on May 10, 2006 Thanks David.  You're awesome. :D -- Posted by galeharoldishot at 3:44 am on May 10, 2006 Hope it all gets back on track. -- Posted by radcliffe wannabe at 4:01 am on May 10, 2006 sounds good. -- Posted by SwiftPainfulSparrow at 4:04 am on May 10, 2006 Even if you did hesitate to do it, you made a decision to better the functionality of LiveWire, so of course we support that decision.  We can live without archived topics, and like others I'll have my fingers crossed too. -- Posted by xestrangedx at 4:22 am on May 10, 2006 good luck, hopefully this will work. your doing a good job though like others said keeping most of the members happy. the site still looks good. thanks. :) -- Posted by TiaC17 at 4:32 am on May 10, 2006 Thanks a million David you're a lifesaver -- Posted by breathe deep at 5:19 am on May 10, 2006 I am extremely upset about the archived topics gone.  Will they be in storage...forever?  I want them back.    I've been checking around and all my absolute favorite topics that I enjoyed going back to are not there anymore.  Is it possible that someday they will be back?  There must be some sort of alternative solution for this. I know you are doing this for the good of LW, but it doesn't make it any easier.  I was quite attached to a lot of those topics. (I know, I'm crazy). (Edited by breathe deep at 8:27 am on May 10, 2006) -- Posted by kleigh at 5:56 am on May 10, 2006 Thanks David, you're awesome. I'm quite content witht the fact that LiveWire is at least working now, I didn't really use the archived topic anyways. Good luck with the changes, hopefully they will work well. -crosses fingers- -- Posted by superguy68 at 6:05 am on May 10, 2006 I actually like this idea. Not a whole lot of people check in the archived topics that I know of. So there will only be sporadic whining as oppose to the constant whining that occurs when livewire goes down. Kudos. -- Posted by TiMmMeE at 6:44 am on May 10, 2006 Is the Archived Topics thing permanent?  It'd be a shame if I never got to see any of my super-old topics again. -- Posted by Artistic Drain at 7:00 am on May 10, 2006 Thanks David! -- Posted by bigred23 at 7:01 am on May 10, 2006 is it because of the increased members that we're having such a problem now? because i thought with our last server upgrade thingamabobber (yep, i know computer stuff really well   ) we weren't supposed to have more problems -- Posted by pleaseremove at 7:38 am on May 10, 2006 Quote: from bigred23 at 3:01 pm on May 10, 2006 is it because of the increased members that we're having such a problem now? because i thought with our last server upgrade thingamabobber (yep, i know computer stuff really well   ) we weren't supposed to have more problems Yup, it wasn't all that long ago when there used to be so few people on-line compared to now. i haven't seen the number of users go under 2 digits for ages.... -- Posted by virtuoso at 7:43 am on May 10, 2006 Thanks man -- Posted by BabieG at 7:47 am on May 10, 2006 I think that's ummmz..cool -- Posted by The Oath at 8:15 am on May 10, 2006 If in the future LW did obtain a new server upgrade, would the archived topics be able to be seen again? Meh, either way it's good that things are being done to improve LW. I guess losing a bit over half of the archived topics isn't so bad -- Posted by Jesusfreak04 at 8:24 am on May 10, 2006 hopefully it stays where it works. -- Posted by LA Gangster at 8:59 am on May 10, 2006 Ok david im new but my friend told me there was some problems here, any how Good luck!. -- Posted by Napster the Hacker at 9:02 am on May 10, 2006 Ok that sounds good.I think there will be Less problems for now,but cannot say No problem.any way Good Luck to all LW members and David too. -- Posted by DarkSecretKeeper121 at 12:16 pm on May 10, 2006 Yeah, fingers crossed...And yes, you are doing a really good job Pages: 1 2  Next