No, this is me, only with more hair, not so fat, and lots more cussing.

I have something for you to try Neal. Go Stalin's purge forge at the forum, lock all the unneeded threads (yes, I'm just trying to get the cat thread gone for good :D).

comin to subsim not always possible (moved to Server disruption thread)
 

Can't get into the Nordics Thread.

ditto

ditto

I get a lot of these database errors at subsim lately. Every few days subsim is down for a few hours, are there some problems with the server?

Yeah, there's a few issues going on:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=159608

A link?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=160646

or- Nordics this is why you can't have nice things.

Y'ok, I will have a look, thanks. I may need to take the forum offline for some repairs. Which forum is this in, btw?

General Topics

:doh: Right under my nose, sorry.

It's working now. :salute: Salutes damage control crew.

a doodle of some Das Boot type salty sailors with wrenches crawling all over a server tower comes to mind... the server tower in pieces of course.

This was the same error (Database error)trying to get into any of the Subsim forums and Subsim.com just came up with a Server error, only just got back on.:hmmm:

same here.

been inaccessible for a short while now.

Yep, been fixing errors.

Ohhh... I see now it's not only me then....
I have had other sites being slow from time to time, so I thought maybe it was my connection till I saw this earlier this evening:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...imdatabase.jpg


IIRC, you once said that your database was way over 3gb. Is that true?
Is there anyway in the forum software, vBulletine to reduce the size, or is external expertise the only option? Just curious aka concerned...

comin to subsim not always possible
 

cause i get a Mysql database error?
just reporting...

mySQL error with query SELECT * FROM nucleus_blog WHERE bnumber=1: MySQL server has gone away<p />mySQL error with query select COUNT(*) as result FROM nucleus_skin_desc WHERE sdnumber=0: MySQL server has gone away<p />mySQL error with query select * FROM nucleus_blog WHERE bnumber=1: MySQL server has gone away<p />mySQL error with query SELECT * FROM nucleus_skin_desc WHERE sdnumber=0: MySQL server has gone away<p />mySQL error with query SELECT scontent FROM nucleus_skin WHERE sdesc=0 and stype='error': MySQL server has gone away<p />mySQL error with query SELECT * FROM nucleus_skin_desc WHERE sdnumber=1: MySQL server has gone away<p />mySQL error with query SELECT scontent FROM nucleus_skin WHERE sdesc=1 and stype='error': MySQL server has gone away<p />Skin error

yea, subsim has been haveing its share of issues lately...:yep:

Yes, the forum db has grown huge and I am working on it. Thanks for your patience.:salute: