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#1 2008-06-03 19:21:01

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how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

the scratch significantly lags more than any other website I've been on, of course other websites have thousands of users on at one time so they have a like 50 degree room for they're gigantic server, but what does the scratch server have? is a bunch of computer or an actual server itself? I'm just wondering because scratch lags a lot and my internet is really good


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#2 2008-06-03 19:30:26

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

Oh you lag too? Then its not just me.

It would be REALLY great if someone fixed this, this site lags like crazy.

Also, it doesn't lag like a site normally would. Instead it freezes the pc for a while. Normally a slow server would cause the page it come up slower.

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#3 2008-06-04 17:59:13

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

you'll be pleased to know we just installed 2 new robust servers...they should be up and running soon  smile

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#4 2008-06-04 18:00:15

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

mletreat wrote:

you'll be pleased to know we just installed 2 new robust servers...they should be up and running soon  smile

Awesome

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#5 2008-06-05 22:52:52

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

archmage wrote:

Also, it doesn't lag like a site normally would. Instead it freezes the pc for a while. Normally a slow server would cause the page it come up slower.

That could be caused by the loading of the Java Virtual Machine. Do you experience the "freezing" while viewing projects? If you do, that's probably Java. We're considering Java alternatives.


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#6 2008-06-05 23:33:20

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

andresmh wrote:

archmage wrote:

Also, it doesn't lag like a site normally would. Instead it freezes the pc for a while. Normally a slow server would cause the page it come up slower.

That could be caused by the loading of the Java Virtual Machine. Do you experience the "freezing" while viewing projects? If you do, that's probably Java. We're considering Java alternatives.

I have noticed this too, how I can rarely play games.


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#7 2008-06-06 09:39:09

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

Well i Haven't noticed any freezing, but i have noticed lagging.


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#8 2008-06-06 14:37:10

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

andresmh wrote:

archmage wrote:

Also, it doesn't lag like a site normally would. Instead it freezes the pc for a while. Normally a slow server would cause the page it come up slower.

That could be caused by the loading of the Java Virtual Machine. Do you experience the "freezing" while viewing projects? If you do, that's probably Java. We're considering Java alternatives.

Well it happens even on school computers so its not just my pc. It's weird, even when I view pages without java, like the notifications page it goes slower than most website pages would. I don't know what it could be :S


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#9 2008-06-06 15:18:44

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

Yeah, scratch is pretty slow. Maybe it is because of the amount of people on at once or somthing.

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#10 2008-06-06 16:08:51

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

It really only happens to me on the Projects and the Messages... it might just be Java or something... but the messages...

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#11 2008-06-06 18:39:54

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Re: how powerful is the scratch server? (Q for the scratch team)

Bobby500 wrote:

Yeah, scratch is pretty slow. Maybe it is because of the amount of people on at once or somthing.

normal servers can hadnle thousands of people scratch is handling about half maybe


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