Rootschat running slow

[Woody32]

It hardly seems helpful, when RC is running slow, to start an unnecessary thread stating the obvious.

I started the thread to see if anyone is having problems or if it was just MY internet connection to Rootschat
How is that unnecessary and unhelpful?

[Alan b]

What I do if I can't get on here or it is slow is to load up another website and if that loads up Ok then I usually put it down to Roots being a bit slow again. The other day I did see a message saying to many people are on and to come back later which is what I did.

[Lydart]

Please B-Bob, this is in NO WAY any criticism ... I'm just curious as to how this whole thing works !

At the moment there are 442 Guests, 255 Users on the site .... and (for me anyway) its working quickly.  Yesterday, at some point when it was so slow, there were about 80 or 90 users (less than 100 anyway) 

Out of curiosity, why/how does this happen ?

[Erato]

There is a slow period every day, apparently when the system backup is happening.  It occurs at about 9-10 PM, Ecuador time [this would be central daylight time in the US].  It doesn't matter how few people are logged on, it slows down drastically at that time.

[poacher54]

It hardly seems helpful, when RC is running slow, to start an unnecessary thread stating the obvious.

dont help with stupid comments like that, seems to me you have a chip on your shoulder cos your always moaning about what people put

[Erato]

hi ricky


cat got your tongue?

[Roger The Hat]

Well, for me RC is running as fast now as it ever has.

I think I'll start a new thread, asking if anyone else is experiencing this new phenomenon.



 

[Berlin-Bob]

At the moment there are 442 Guests, 255 Users on the site .... and (for me anyway) its working quickly.  Yesterday, at some point when it was so slow, there were about 80 or 90 users (less than 100 anyway)

I don't know this for sure, but if a lot of the guests are search robots (search-bots), then they will be zipping from one topic to another, clicking on every link they find, including "notify", "print" and profile links (they can't actually read them, as they are only "guests", but being "stupid" in that sense, they just click anything and everything  ).

My feeling is that we get a lot of search bots in the first week of each new month, but that's a bit speculative.

Bob

[Lydart]

Thanks Bob ... and excuse my ignorance ... but what might they be searching FOR ??