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MajorB	04 Mar 2015 3:16 a.m. PST
Looks like Bill still has a re-indexing problem …
Oh Bugger	04 Mar 2015 4:05 a.m. PST
Yeah seems so.
WJAL21	04 Mar 2015 4:21 a.m. PST
Its good to start each new day with a clean slate.
OSchmidt	04 Mar 2015 4:25 a.m. PST
Looks like Bill has a hostile intrusion example. Sorry, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
Gwydion	04 Mar 2015 4:40 a.m. PST
Good to see the paranoia is still strong OSchmidt‌ Seriously it looks like splitting the process into three tasks didn't work You can get access if you sort the topics with the buttons to the left but it isn't a convenient way of doing it and you have to do it every time. Back to the drawing board!
MajorB	04 Mar 2015 4:53 a.m. PST
The recent problems are most likely caused by the sheer size of the database. Since there appears to be no housekeeping (i.e. threads are never thrown away except when explicitly nuked by an administrator) the database will continue to grow over time. I suspect that we have reached a point where for some reason the re-indexing process can no longer handle the amount of data in the database.
Winston Smith	04 Mar 2015 5:03 a.m. PST
Otto, if it was enemy action, I can think of a lot more damaging things that could be done.
Editor in Chief Bill	04 Mar 2015 5:18 a.m. PST
Stand by…
Editor in Chief Bill	04 Mar 2015 5:43 a.m. PST
Not enemy action… just large databases…
MichaelCollinsHimself	04 Mar 2015 6:27 a.m. PST
Welcome back !
alien BLOODY HELL surfer	04 Mar 2015 6:46 a.m. PST
'Not enemy action… just large databases…' just ask Tango to limit himself to under a 100 new threads a day then before the databases totally give up ;-)
nazrat	04 Mar 2015 8:12 a.m. PST
It's the new old new TMP! Ain't it grand? 8)=
Martin Rapier	04 Mar 2015 8:54 a.m. PST
LOL, hostile intrusion… it is just broken. I've been around computer systems long enough to recognise one which is broken. With three instances it is not longer an 'event', but a 'problem', so it goes into 'problem resolution' aka Bill running around trying to fix it. Still, we always have the front page. Just crank that post count up to 400 and ignore some of our more prolific posters and Bobs your uncle.
David Manley	04 Mar 2015 9:49 a.m. PST
"it is not longer an 'event', but a 'problem'" When does it become an "undocumented feature"?
jeffreyw3	04 Mar 2015 10:20 a.m. PST
:) Scalability was a secondary goal of the original design…
Editor in Chief Bill	04 Mar 2015 11:10 a.m. PST
Scalability was not an option in the original TMP 3.0 technology.
Winston Smith	04 Mar 2015 11:24 a.m. PST
And now they are full. Tune in tomorrow, same time same station for more thrilling worries !
Mako11	04 Mar 2015 12:53 p.m. PST
I blame the North Koreans. Probably their "devastating" counter to those military exercises we're running in cooperation with the South Koreans. The timing is not coincidental. ;-)