Cycling UK Forum

I suspect network issues, as the server "unexpectedly dropped the connection". This problem wasn't caused by the server not being found, or being too slow, it was because the connection was broken. WiFi? ADSL broadband? I can recommend PingPlotter for diagnosing network problems: https://w...

Emojis are 4-byte unicode characters, that can cause issues as older MySQL databases don't support them (they were limited to 3-byte unicode glyphs for some once-logical reason). I'll have a look to see if this version of phpBB has an option to support 4-byte characters. Hmmm... there's this, which ...

Vorpal wrote:We are all cyclists. No one is *lesser* for what they wear.

I'm not a "cyclist" - I'm just a person who often uses a bicycle for transport, and sometimes for pleasure.

Better now, perhaps?

I understand that candidates might not be Cycling UK members, but surely they should be able to afford ~£50 to join if they want to be a Trustee of the Club/Charity?

Perhaps they're only going to join if they get elected, to possibly save the membership fee if they're not?

It does seem odd to me that people up for election are not members of Cycling UK.

Surely they could spend the small amount to join the organisation they are wanting to be a Trustee of?

Why haven't they joined the organisation? Don't they want to be members for some reason?

Some serious network problems (packet loss) yesterday evening. All fixed now.

OK, so that idea didn't fix the problem. I'll keep investigating.

OK, tried something else. How is the posting time now?

Well, it doesn't seem to be anything to do with the phpBB code, which manages to complete all it wants to do in a few hundred milliseconds.

So it's something lower-level on the server.

I have other ways to work out where the slowness is coming from. I don't really want to break functionality at this stage.

The trouble is that there are a lot of asynchronous and synchronous tasks going on, and there are a lot of clients sending requests to the Forum server all the time. Most likely candidates are: ⋅ Database table locking (unable to write to the table until the last write has completed) &sdot...

Thank you for the feedback. It's probably not down to email sending holding the forum up, then.

More likely a database table locking issue. I'll investigate further.

Not unless someone spots a pattern.

I've made another change...

If it's email sending, hopefully that will fix it.

Seems to be a problem other people are having: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=466&t=2461011 I've tried all the obvious things, and suspect it's something to do with emailing notifications. Perhaps worse on busy threads, or threads with lots of quoted text, which might result in ...