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Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:55 am

Sometime in the past few weeks, LicketySplit had a post that was displayed before the post that he quoted. I can't seem to find the thread, so if anyone remembers where it was, please link it here.

We had another one of these that happened here:

viewtopic.php?p=659772#659772

You'll notice that the post order goes like so: 659772, 659773, and then 659770. However, the time of the posts goes from 2007-01-23 21:31:27, to 2007-01-23 21:34:13, and then 2007-01-23 22:14:03. Curious, eh?

Anyways, if you see more of these things happen, post them here so we can keep track and try to figure out a cause. Once was interesting, twice is likely a problem. Thanks in advance.

mattsteg · Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:18 am

The cause almost has to be the clock in the server. Perhaps it's losing time, but syncing to NTP on a schedule, so every time it syncs there's the possibility for posts to get out of order. Maybe the battery on the motherboard is going bad?

Forge · Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:20 am

Multi-threaded DB access resolving out of order?

What're loads like?

UberGerbil · Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:27 am

Are you sure it's not just Lickety, messing with the space-time continuum?

mattsteg · Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:32 am

Forge wrote:
Multi-threaded DB access resolving out of order?

What're loads like?

How could something be in the DB to quote, yet get entered at a later time?

blue_bludger · Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:48 am

Are you using more than one Web/Forum Server? Time for some apps is calculated at the client layer not the db layer which frequently causes this sort of problem.

Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:16 am

I don't have the DB tools to look, but it's in a thread where Shintai, Lickety and me all posted (it's probably talking about some system build or Conroe, but don't quote me on that). Still that is a lot of threads though, I cannot remember which one.

Shintai · Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:26 am

UberGerbil wrote:
Are you sure it's not just Lickety, messing with the space-time continuum?

I second that one!

Here Fox:

Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:35 am

Shintai wrote:
UberGerbil wrote:
Are you sure it's not just Lickety, messing with the space-time continuum?

I second that one!

Here Fox:

And Kevin, here's the link to that thread.

Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:50 am

Flying Fox wrote:
And Kevin, here's the link to that thread.

Thanks. We had a server issue on that day (Jan. 3) and we had a server issue last night. So I think that ties up where the source of the problem was.

Usacomp2k3 · Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:56 am

Server issue? Oh man. So did it like throw a temper tantrum? :wink:

Spare the rod, spoil the server.

Looking for Knowledge · Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:19 am

UberGerbil wrote:
Are you sure it's not just Lickety, messing with the space-time continuum?

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