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Has anyone else been getting a lot more errors on sh.itjust.works recently? Could the server be overloaded? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been getting a lot of these messages lately:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data"

So I decided to look at the network requests in the browser console. After all, what JSON data was it trying and failing to parse?

Well, turns out that it was pretty much always:

Timeout occurred while waiting for a slot to become available

I don't do a lot of backend work, but I suspect that the lack of slots might be referring to the server running out of resources to process all of the ongoing user activity concurrently. Could we be running into scaling issues?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A lot of bots were spamming the instance which was causing an IO bottleneck, and thus timeout issues. We're looking into solutions to limit their impact, such as rate-limiting users. We're trying to do it in such a way that it doesn't impact regular users which is why it's taking a bit longer.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Awesome, thanks for the update. You guys rock.