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Maddus Mattus
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

Is excellent now!

I dont know what you guys did, but it's working fabulous!

With all these negative threads around, I thought i would sneak a positive one in!

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

You're right. It's noticeably faster. Good job. Of course, now we want to know how you did it Wink

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

In reply to TommyCarlier

#Jul 29th, 2008 @ 9:34 AM

Next time we do a video I'll talk about how adding locking to our service layer increased our perf.

TommyCarlier
I want my scalps!

In reply to Sampy

#Jul 29th, 2008 @ 11:38 AM

So you increased performance by adding locking? Usually, locking decreases performance. But I believe you, because a while ago I increased the performance and smoothness of simultaneous animations in my animation library by slowing down the animation thread.

figuerres
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In reply to TommyCarlier

#Jul 30th, 2008 @ 1:21 AM

well it can also keep your code from getting into some nasty problems, there is an old term "deadly embrace"
where a wants someting that b has and is holding x waiting for b to finish.

b can't finish till it gets x so it's wating for a to let go of it.

many ways to solve that , some use timeouts, some use locking etc....

fun stuff like that can happen where you do not even see it till you hit a critical load then *BAM* it goes to heck and you have to find the lock-point in the code.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Speed is really wonderful... but it might be because I'm sitting near the servers now Big Smile

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

In reply to littleguru

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 1:52 PM

Actually you're not. They're in North Carolina.

figuerres
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In reply to Sampy

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 2:12 PM

BUMP, so far the site seems a heck of a lot more stable.... has the locking perhaps fixed the on-going http ex thing ??

Sampy
This will be the sixth time we have destroyed it and we have become exceedingly efficient at it

In reply to figuerres

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 6:10 PM

We actually went thru the code and removed all the exceptions we could find in the event log.

We also switched how we do redirects and 404s to not throw an exception. Even though it's caught, it's still a perf hit.

figuerres
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In reply to Sampy

#Jul 31st, 2008 @ 6:27 PM

IT SHOWS!!!!!!!!

really, this is soooooo much better now! wish I could send the team a big bottle of something good to drink Smiley

Tell Duncan also.... He has had a couple of emails from me when things were crashing.