smatovic wrote: ↑Tue May 06, 2025 7:16 am
One would need to analyze the web-server logs to figure what is going on. If DOS, DDOS, crawler/scraper, valid user requests.
There are several web-server modules and Linux server configurations which can be tuned more aggressively, but I would prefer to not discuss certain TC security measurements in the public.
I myself have no time in spare to engage atm in TC server operations and solve this case.
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Srdja
Another possibility is that the host the TC virtual private server is running on is overbooked and overloaded. As mentioned, one would need to take a look into log files etc.
HGM just publish the log files here, please. Not claiming to be an expert on Linux server log files, but I'm sure the chatbots will be able to explain them!
Human chess is partly about tactics and strategy, but mostly about memory
towforce wrote: ↑Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:13 pm
HGM just publish the log files here, please. Not claiming to be an expert on Linux server log files, but I'm sure the chatbots will be able to explain them!
You will have to live monitor the system + watch the log files during an actual slowdown.
66666 views now for this thread. If most of you see the site very slow, apparently not for everyone. Yesterday it was slow, just for a moment only. But three days very fast here. Very strange. I hope it is not something on my end... System still thinking I'm Fernando? I changed browsers a bit but that's it. Logging in sporadically maybe helps or leaving some remember keys? Or maybe actually refreshing them I don't know.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you
are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
-- Brian W. Kernighan
Eelco de Groot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:28 pm
66666 views now for this thread. If most of you see the site very slow, apparently not for everyone. Yesterday it was slow, just for a moment only. But three days very fast here. Very strange. I hope it is not something on my end... System still thinking I'm Fernando? I changed browsers a bit but that's it. Logging in sporadically maybe helps or leaving some remember keys? Or maybe actually refreshing them I don't know.
Now and then the forum is fast. Usually it is very, very slow.
Eelco de Groot wrote: ↑Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:28 pm
66666 views now for this thread. If most of you see the site very slow, apparently not for everyone. Yesterday it was slow, just for a moment only. But three days very fast here. Very strange. I hope it is not something on my end... System still thinking I'm Fernando? I changed browsers a bit but that's it. Logging in sporadically maybe helps or leaving some remember keys? Or maybe actually refreshing them I don't know.
Now and then the forum is fast. Usually it is very, very slow.
And right now it is extremely responsive, even though there are apparently nearly 600 users online:
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ernest wrote: ↑Mon Aug 25, 2025 3:21 amNever heard a word from hgm on the subject...
Maybe he's gathering evidence that one of the users of this site is running a denial of service attack, and he's remaining silent until he has the proof.
Human chess is partly about tactics and strategy, but mostly about memory
