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fur fag said:
i've experienced this same exact issue for quite some time now, sometimes videos upload fine sometimes they don't. brave on PC w/VPN, clearnet, switching servers sometimes fixes it but idk if that's because i changed IPs or if it just naturally fixed itself.

sometimes it gets stuck at 100%, sometimes it "uploads" but you can't insert and have to refresh, revealing it wasn't actually uploaded.
once when it got stuck at 100% i checked network activity and it was double uploading for some reason. even when the upload goes through sometimes it still double uploads, bizarre.
and then sometimes uploading slows down immensely halfway.

i can't pin down any rhyme or reason to it, it seems completely random.
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I get double or more uploads on pictures sometimes. I'll upload a pic, insert, hit post, and then it'll have multiple copies of the same attachment when I only uploaded 1 and only 1 appeared before hitting post. Not a new issue though it's happened off and on the whole time I've used the site.
 
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I have changed our ssl ciphers and expanded the ssl buffer after reviewing error logs and seeing some suspicious entries about ssl termination. Let me know if there's any improvement.
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Site is working faster than it ever has for me. Liking your post was instant when usually it takes at least a few seconds to go through. Everything seems to be loading much faster than it ever has all around.
 
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Ok, I still see errors about early data so I've turned off ssl_early_data and have completely restarted the webserver instead of reloading. This should clear any existing sessions. My hope is that it should dramatically resolve page load speeds for those experiencing them. Your expectation should be under 1 second page load times.

Attachments are trickier. We are bottlenecking on bandwidth and need to fix an issue with our Intel NIC rejecting non-Intel optics. That may require a server reboot because we have to rebuild a module that is not playing nice.
 
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Queesechake said:
I get double or more uploads on pictures sometimes. I'll upload a pic, insert, hit post, and then it'll have multiple copies of the same attachment when I only uploaded 1 and only 1 appeared before hitting post. Not a new issue though it's happened off and on the whole time I've used the site.
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It seems to try up to 3 times to attach a file and sometimes thinks it fails when it hasn't and then you get those duplicates. It has happened to me pretty much for most of my time posting here.
 
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Something went super ass on my connection in the last 5 minutes, around 01:15 UTC. Seems to slowly be improving. It's not on my end, things chugging along fine with other sites including youtube.
Edit to add: must have fixed itself or the gateway switched, back to Speedy Gonzalez now.
Edit to add: Brave / win11 / behind a vpn over clearnet. Same behavior (albeit not logged in) in Edge on same machine at the same time. Switching VPNs did not improve it, but with 15 minutes it was back to full normal, with incremental speedups in the interim. At one point, it was not loading at all.
 
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Work mostly complete.

I dropped about $3,000 to get new hardware to increase my access to the servers so that we have to rely on remote hands less often which will decrease downtime in catastrophic events. I am upgrading our network to 10G from 1G. I intend to reduce the complexity of our topology so that the site has less latency with every request.

The most important change is that we have added an optimized NVMe SSD in RAID 10 on XFS for the database. The database is very large and when our previous NVMe raid failed I moved it to the SSD raid that is optimized for files. Thus, the attachments and database were competing for I/O, which is why both broke frequently. This new raid is a completely separate set of devices which means that not only is the database on very recent harddrives with a better connector (NVMe vs SATA), it is also no longer competing with the S3 file system that handles attachments. This will make both load faster.

It's 3am and I'm tired but this is only the first step towards optimizing things. I will do more work over the week.

This is brought to you by the GiveSendGo donors btw, thank you for helping me help you help us all.
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Good dog.
 
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Minor issue but the logo on Stealth mode doesn't scale properly. This is 200% in Brave. This error may exist on the other styles but I am legit too blind to tell you.

Also I really hope the next time there's a wallpaper comic contest or it's updated, it won't say FAT CUNT at the top of every single page in the default style.
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Site is noticeably faster. I almost always get image attachment issues/delays and didn't when attaching that.
 
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getting slow loads on page changes but likes and similar on page interactions are instant now
edit: androidposting, site mega died earlier, changed networks and it seems to have fixed itself, may have just been client-side/network fuckery the whole time, my b.
 
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little nervous about that. compared to say ext4. xfs can get royally messed up that ext4 can still recover from.
with the proper tuning tbh zfs is worth considering.

also any plans for dual servers? High-availability VRRP with Keepalived. no downtime if one server is up. also could do west coast and east coast. slow rollout of features to allow for rollbacks. lots of benefits.
 
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Stuff will periodically load for 30+ seconds for seemingly no reason. Everything I can test from my end, from the router uptime to download speeds, is working fine, I'm sorry I can't provide more info. It's just frustrating that I go to a page and it takes 30 seconds to a minute to load. Most of the time after this new upgrade it works fine.
 
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Stuff will periodically load for 30+ seconds for seemingly no reason. Everything I can test from my end, from the router uptime to download speeds, is working fine, I'm sorry I can't provide more info. It's just frustrating that I go to a page and it takes 30 seconds to a minute to load. Most of the time after this new upgrade it works fine.
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yes, that's that http2 session error I'm completely stumped over. i have never seen it before and can't find other people talking about it.
 
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