Discussion: Possible site downtime

just a heads-up, AP is probably moving to a new server in the next few days (using "excessive resources" on the current one), so there may be a temporary interruption of availability...hopefully nobody will notice!

-ken

OMG!

Sounds like it might be a good time to donate to Attackpoint.

From the point of view of Australian users it's not a bad time to have some downtime - it's a long holiday weekend and many of us will be away at events somewhere.

You are right, Bash. I just made a donation. :-)

I've donated a couple of times, and the new features seem to keep coming. Try hovering the mouse over a username in the discussion...

Yeah, that's a nice one. Much better than having to click to another page to remember who it is you're talking to.

Cool - I hadn't noticed that!

Well it's a cool new tool...if the AP member has filled in his profile.

Many AP'ers seem to feel reluctant to provide these data, particularly Birth Year. Would it be too harsh to stipulate that basic profile info be supplied, or else the A/Per would lose membership, and his seniority ranking would be reduced to zero?

I would be quite opposed to the idea of making others share their information on AP. (And this is from someone who has certainly NOT remained anonymous.) It's not a dating site, I don't see why people should have to share real names or DoBs, as long as they're just using the site like any other APer and not causing a ruckus.

I think it would be too harsh.

I would point out, though, that entering a location gives you the weather links on your log. I use the weather links a lot. And it's not like it's an address. It's just a city.

And I forgot about the other cool things it does, such as distance to events and to other APers.

Respect peoples privacy. If they only want to share their HR and not their real name, that is their privilege.

I was going to ask: what is supposed to happen when you hover over a name? Nothing happens for me. Seems this feature is only enabled if you are logged in, when I logged in to ask the question, I started getting the pop up user info.

This isn't a dating site? Whoops.

I have to turn off "Show tooltips" in my Opera browser, or the user info is covered up by Opera displaying the link that is associated with the hypertext (user name). I use the tooltips to determine whether I can click on a link (e.g. youtube and many other sites are "blocked" at work, and my attempt to access "is logged"), so I'll have to see which is more useful.

If CPU time is the excessive resource in use, I wonder if rankings.jsp is a leading cause of that. It sometimes seems to use 10-30 seconds of processing time... If so, you might want to try caching the rankings (probably with a list of the input results used to create it, and then query & compare the input list to check if it needs a refresh...) While they would perhaps then need to be updated every time a new split is entered, that's probably a lot less often than every time someone looks at the rankings. (Although maybe I'm the main cause of that resource usage...)

And the fancy 'new' Home page probably isn't cheap either, and it's probably hit way more often than the rankings page.

Fixing a resource problem by making the code more efficient? That's so 1970's. MORE HARDWARE! That's the way we do things now.

LOL... ebuckley, you're sounding like a Triathlete now! hehehe....

The move is complete...the site was offline for only about 80 sec. Send me an email if you notice any wacky errors, thanks.

Yep... I now have multiple entries in my training log, and can't edit them.

I don't seem to be able to comment on anyones' logs.

Ditto to Tim's & Bruce's observations. I'm sure that poor Ken is having a wonderful evening.

Very nice. Everything is back to normal and really fast!

Looks like foreign chars, like äöå are OK here, but not in training logs.

Weird... I'm still getting the same issues. The other quirk is that my unread Favorites stay unread after reading them.

ok, I just figured out how to reproduce the favorites/comments/edit problems (I had to login as one of you guys in order to see it). it should be at least partly fixed now.

I can't seem to access the Mothly or Yearly summary page. The training volume and activities seem to still be there but all I get is this error message:

java.sql.SQLException: java.sql.SQLException: Illegal hour value '53' for java.sql.Time type in value '53:31:32.

same here...and on the training page i sometimes get something like that...but then the graphs are shown at the bottom of the page so it was kinda weird

I had one training entry from yesterday disappear overnight (so I just entered it again).

It seems I can access everything but the homepage. I keep getting this error:

500 Servlet Exception

java.sql.SQLException: java.sql.SQLException: Illegal hour value '24'
for
java.sql.Time type in value '24:28:15.
at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:910)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet.getTimeFromString(ResultSet.java:5995)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet.getStringInternal(ResultSet.java:5718)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet.getString(ResultSet.java:5544)
at com.mysql.jdbc.ResultSet.getString(ResultSet.java:5584)
at org.attackpoint.UserTrainingList.getFavoritesListHTML(UserTrainingList.java:723)
at _jsp._index__jsp._jspService(index.jsp:121)
at com.caucho.jsp.JavaPage.service(JavaPage.java:60)
at com.caucho.jsp.Page.pageservice(Page.java:570)
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.PageFilterChain.doFilter(PageFilterChain.java:179)
at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:173)
at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.service(ServletInvocation.java:229)
at com.caucho.server.http.HttpRequest.handleRequest(HttpRequest.java:274)
at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection.java:511)
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.runTasks(ThreadPool.java:520)
at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool.run(ThreadPool.java:442)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

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I couldn't get to my training log. When I clicked on Log, it would take me to the page for the 'Training' tab. Also, I lost my settings for metric units (for the temperature display), lost my location and my birth date. I had to do a bit of fiddling to be able to reaccess it. Searched on google for my log, then added a note to it to see if the log would come up. It seemed to work.
Don't know if it's related to the whole switching server thing.

Seems like the problems I mentioned have been fixed.

Thanks for everything Ken!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yah i havent had any of those things pop up in a while....what ever ken did he fixed it! Thanks!!!!!

When I log time & distance of daily workout, I can no longer use the pace function. Previously, I could enter the elapsed time and the pace and then the software would calculate the distance.