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Old 09-17-2009, 11:33 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
Four (or six) times a day a snap shot backup is run. While that is happening all requests will be queued up since the snapshot needs exclusive access to the database.

Also.... there is alot more traffic here than there was just 6 months ago.

As Harry said, Alex has some plans in the works to deal with this stuff.

That said, MR is still consistently one of the fastest web sites I use.

BOb
...and on the other end of the spectrum, this is easily becoming the slowest site I frequent. It seems to have gotten particularly bad in the past few days. Extremely slow page loads makes for very frustrating reading here.
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