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Just this past week or two, ENWorld has been very slow.
The mods know about this; however, MM is not sure how to fix the issue. It is a MySQL issue. We must be patient.
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Hope that it's fixed soon; at the moment I'm getting 10-12 seconds for page loads, which doesn't sound like a lot until you think about a typical ENWorld visit involving reading maybe 15-20 threads.
I'm definitely visiting less and less since the changeover to EN2, as the site becomes more of a hassle to navigate.
Hope that it's fixed soon; at the moment I'm getting 10-12 seconds for page loads, which doesn't sound like a lot until you think about a typical ENWorld visit involving reading maybe 15-20 threads.
I'm definitely visiting less and less since the changeover to EN2, as the site becomes more of a hassle to navigate.
I hope so too, and I must also admit that I'm visiting EN World a lot less than normal. The site has become so slow that I can't even post updates to my various threads without it timing out on me unless the post is short and preformatted.
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I hope so too, and I must also admit that I'm visiting EN World a lot less than normal. The site has become so slow that I can't even post updates to my various threads without it timing out on me unless the post is short and preformatted.
Just trying to come to these boards times out 3 out of 4 tries for me. I hope it gets fixed soon.
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Just trying to come to these boards times out 3 out of 4 tries for me. I hope it gets fixed soon.
Same problem here.
Incidentally - there has been no problem responding to threads, it is getting them to load in the first place that times out.
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At least I'm not alone in experiencing a slow problem with ENW2.
At first I thought I was logging on at peak hours, but it seems every hours are peak hours on ENW2. It couldn't be my connection since I upgraded to DSL. Ironic, it was only when I have dial-up it was fast ... ENW1 that is.
How about we go back to ENW1?
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I have periodically have problems doing everything.
It comes in waves.
On the plus side the trick seems to be to just let it sit. Most of the time, if you just stop and wait while your browser does the loading thing (with one or two pages) it'll eventually go through.
Open non-enworld pages and multi-surfing is a good solution.
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At least I'm not alone in experiencing a slow problem with ENW2.
At first I thought I was logging on at peak hours, but it seems every hours are peak hours on ENW2. It couldn't be my connection since I upgraded to DSL. Ironic, it was only when I have dial-up it was fast ... ENW1 that is.
How about we go back to ENW1?
Not possible. And how soon do you forget these problems where present on the old codebase as well.
Not possible. And how soon do you forget these problems where present on the old codebase as well.
To be fair, the only time I can remember ENW behaving like this was right before the last major server drive, when access speeds slowed to a crawl at any time the US was awake. Now, the site veers between superb responsiveness and constant time-outs every five minutes. Something is very wrong.
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I have seen both the very slow and the very fast, just hours apart from each other. I am not sure what the prime time hours are for the site, but being in Central US time zone I only seem to have real problems in the 6AM to 9AM timeframe. Also during the 2AM to 5AM window the site is very responsive.
I agree with Nift that ENW2 at its worst is still NOWHERE near ENW1 at its worst. Perhaps that is because I now get Network Timeouts after about 45 seconds and have to reload whereas with ENW1 I remember times when it just sat there "loading" for up to 10 minutes and never did. [I would hit another tab and come back later to find it still loading] I greatly prefer the error message over the endless loop of the past.
Is it a mySQL problem? I thought the latest culprit was the httpd settings (if I understand this thread).
Of course, with our main sysadmin having to look for a job while trying to nail this down, I understand any delays in getting it fixed. Its fast enough for me most times (and I can wait it out in others).
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I'm beginning to think the box is rooted again. The pattern is invariant - 10-15 minutes of quick response then major lag. Hidden cron job perhaps? I've no idea how to look for or fix the problem if it is intrusion. I've tried different settings each night for the last week folks. I'm sorry, but this problem is beyond me to fix.
I am glad to see I am not the only one experiencing slowness and network time out issues. I thought maybe it was me. I started to really notice them a couple weeks ago when I switched to Firefox 3. I thought maybe it was an issue with Firefox. Connecting to ENWorld, loading threads, even loading the reply to thread screen is often incredibly slow. Makes me wish I know current programming languages.
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Makes me wish I know current programming languages.
I do, but the wrong ones. If the site was on the Microsoft stack (ASP.NET/SQL Server), then I might be able to help out. Though the site I built and maintain gets a lot less traffic than ENWorld (even if it does bring in more money).
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