Expecting Rain

I have noticed some problems posting on the ER forums. It seems the server is very slow. I don't know if it's actually the ER server or my own connection.

*** It must be the ER server. Even this post took forever to submit. It's not the issue on other websites.

The server load is rather high at the moment, 87% of the server memory is being used, and lots of disk space is being used. I will see what can be done. Worst case would be a restart of the server.

It makes moderating difficult, to say the least. It takes forever to even delete the double, triple etc posts that seem to result from this problem.

I have deleted tmp files and spam messages, and I have asked Mac Cow to look into the forum databases.

Made a Graceful Server Reboot at 1520 CET, let's hope it helped.

Server load and memory usage is much down now.

Thanks - seems to be much better now.

Yeah, just came on line a little bit ago, and seem to be getting a good response time right now....

Thanks, Sir!

I'm still having a single post trying to show up twice, as though the board has an itchy trigger finger.

What the hell is going on?... what have you done to the server?... it's going way too quick for my liking... can't you slow it down a bit... it's making me feel queasy!

Thank you, thickboy.