So the last two or three posts I've made on this forum show up as double posts, even though I'm only clicking the post button once. I'm using Firefox 3.

Is this a known issue, or is it an issue with the way my browser is configured/set up?

Yeah sorry, it's a known issue. They're not actually double posted. It's just a visual glitch that happens occasionally. It'll get fixed soon :)

Good to know, and thanks for the prompt reply.

The forum is once again in the Twilight Zone. I'm experiencing deja vu (a glitch in the Matrix?)

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We are the world leader in time-stretching.

ROTFL :)

yeah, the servers went out of sync in the early hours of the morning. damn. they're back in sync now, but the heavy load they're under doesn't help!

we've got a third web server coming online early next week...

Can we expect a real speed change then? I thought the problem were the 'ineffecient' DB queries?

The hamsters inside the servers need to run faster. Give them more caffeine!

Yes and yes. Queries next.

Mmmmm coffee.

i've had a hunt for bad queries and unfortunately, while there are some, they are not the problem. the problem is in the message counts. to keep track of counts for all active users for all the threads they've cast their eyes near, storing a large amount of rows is unavoidable.

there are fixes that can be done at application level. but they're all non-trivial (read: very time consuming).

the new server will be considerably more powerful than the current two, and also have more RAM. it'll alleviate the worst symptoms and buy us time to do the harder fixes.