Forum stalls and pauses

[administrator]

I'm sure some of you have seen it where it seems like the forum just hangs after you have gone a clicked on something. You're probably wondering if there was something you did. Well, I've seen it a few times myself and I don't live in the forum so I thought I would do some digging. It appears that the forum software is burping and dying once in a while with forum cache errors. This appears to be another possible database or code issue. So I have a support call into vBulletin to see if they can track it down.

[Grimly]

I noticed that happening all day yesterday, but I was thinking it might be an attack-bot defence to prevent reloading fast queries.

[administrator]

I noticed the same thing. It was the cache acting up. I now have set a couple of parameters per vBulletin's request so let's see how it goes.