Server overload

2005-05-19 00:00:00 | johann | #

Now there you have it. Too many visitors! The server is coming to a grinding halt since 8:00 UTC. As emergency measures I have tried the following:

• Only 2 screen resolutions instead of 6.
• Only 2 active screenshot factories instead of 8.
• Only 5 recent screenshots instead of 30.
• Maximum of 6 pages per screenshot instead of 10.

For further development it seems we'll have to do the screenshot merging on the factories, not on the server, to make the system more scalable.

Also, we will need a search function so you can find your screenshots when they are finished. This feature is already being worked on and we hope to get it online today. The hard disk in the server is not yet full, so we keep on storing all screenshots. In the long run, maybe one week of storage will be possible.