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Offline Nominal AnimalTopic starter

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Lots of SMF database connection problems?
« on: December 22, 2022, 06:30:35 pm »
I'm seeing a lot of
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Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
right now, that I haven't seen before.  The front page says 1784 Guests, 244 Users, so it doesn't look like a natural Youtube spike to me either.

What is going on?
 

Offline Andy Watson

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Re: Lots of SMF database connection problems?
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2022, 06:36:32 pm »
I've been seeing it since approximately 17:17 GMT. Almost every other page I try returns that error message.
 
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Offline TimFox

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Re: Lots of SMF database connection problems?
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2022, 08:03:09 pm »
Similar here.  In fact, when I first tried to reply just now, I got the same smf connection problem response.
 

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Re: Lots of SMF database connection problems?
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2022, 08:08:15 pm »
It's likely that the forum is handled by two or more web servers and one of them lost its connection to the database. That's why it happens sporadically.
 

Offline RoGeorge

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Re: Lots of SMF database connection problems?
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2022, 08:12:33 pm »
Yes, it's happening a lot in the last hours.  Any server problems post in this topic https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/website-error-reports/msg4597752/ will also send a notification email to the server's admin.

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Re: Lots of SMF database connection problems?
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2022, 08:27:27 pm »
Getting the database server may be too busy errors here too today. Usually a single page refresh gets it going again.
 

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Re: Lots of SMF database connection problems?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2023, 03:17:35 am »
Any errors today were due to a PHP upgrade on the servers. SMF has also been updated to the latest 2.0.19 version
 


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