What's happening with livejournal?

[bra00724]

What is happening with lj? It's extremely slow. I practicaly can't do anything: upload picures, access friends pages.
On support page (after god know how many minutes trying to get there) they said to clear casche and log in without binding to IP address. I did both and it didn't help at all. All lj pages download very slow or most of the times at all (DNS error).
Please help.

[daniyagami]

Yes, I'm having the same problem since a couple of days ago.
Looks like they are having server problems.

[HereThereBeYaoi]

I have the same problem as well, it stated this morning. Either the pages take super long to load or they don't load at all...

[Lenka]

but but...I just checked other's page in LJ like...2-3 hours ago and now I can't open mine, it loads so long and gives me white blank page in the end

I hope it doesn't crash or such...

EDIT: wait, scrap that, I can open it after refreshing once strange...

[sniperewolf2]

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_...ce/127951.html
Hopefully they'll fix it soon

[bra00724]

It's so annoying. Especially that's where all my pictures are and many scanlation groups use lj.
And please could any of you tell me what's here http://community.livejournal.com/lj_...ce/127951.html
because of course I can't open it.

[daniyagami]

I can't open either.

[Lenka]

are you sure the url contains lj_...ce ?

here's what comes from the url:
Page Not Found

LiveJournal Admin: Sir! We have reports that someone is trying to access a page that doesn't exist!
LiveJournal Captain: Impossible! How can that be?
LiveJournal Admin: Sir, I don't know. Maybe they typed in the URL wrong or maybe we're suffering from a critical system failure.
LiveJournal Captain: Unacceptable! Redirect them to a 404 page and make it snappy!

If you think you've reached this page in error:

* Make sure the URL you're trying to reach is correct.
* Check LiveJournal Status to view LiveJournal's current status.

[daniyagami]

Found this:

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_...ce/127951.html

"I wanted to give you an update as to all the frustrating problems we've been experiencing in the last 3 to 4 weeks. If you've received timeouts, blank pages or journals, comment threads or individual entries not loading at all -- or not looking like they should (i.e., without style sheets) when they *finally* do load -- then this will be of interest to you.

The cause is basically, simplistically, an overloaded database server. Here's what we plan to do about it within the next 5-7 days:

1. Speed up the way our user information is pulled out of the database.
2. Out of the 10 servers where we store our data, the first one is really struggling to keep up with the demands on it, we plan to move some of the users on that first server around so that the requests for information are spread around better.


Even if your journal, or the journal you are trying to look at is on a different server, we're all still affected because everyone has to wait in line for their turn to get to their server, only now the entire line is backed up.



First, we are fixing some of our SQL queries on our User Cluster databases.
We found out that one of the most frequent requests (up to 40%) was NOT configured to go through our Memcache tier, meaning every one of those SELECTs was hitting the database. A change was committed to the next release which is scheduled for 2 days.
There are also some other miscellaneous optimizations which should decrease the time the database has to spend in answering them.

Second, we're moving the biggest community off of our overloaded database server onto the smallest database. Then, in typical operations fashion, we're going to upgrade the hard drives in that database from good ol' sata drives to something less... spinny. [info]mhwest is on the phone right now trying to arrange the purchase and shipment details; I'm shooting for this coming Monday when we can have both the upgrade and the move finished.

And finally, we're going to have other people with fresh eyes and different experience and skill-sets take a look at parts of our systems and see how we can improve things. This will be on-going and the changes, if any, will be rolled out over the medium to long term, but is scheduled to start in 2 weeks."

[bra00724]

This will be on-going and the changes, if any, will be rolled out over the medium to long term, but is scheduled to start in 2 weeks."

So all we can do is waint f* know how long.
Sorry for it but I'm sooooo mad right now.

And thank you for posting the news. At least now I know it's not only my problem.