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[darjr]

The home page is still loading slower than before.

It loads fast then pauses then the add shows then another section goes fast then pauses then the vertical add shows along with the rest of the page.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Mark

Still super-fast except for that one glitch yesterday about 7pm central USA time.

This morning I have been seeing sporadic moments of glitchiness, again. Mostly when posting but sometimes when just loading a page. Not as bad as before, of course, but about once an hour or so.

[Intrope]

Originally Posted by Mark

This morning I have been seeing sporadic moments of glitchiness, again. Mostly when posting but sometimes when just loading a page. Not as bad as before, of course, but about once an hour or so.

Here, too. In particular, the boards recovered from a slowdown at 11:23 Central Time.

It does seem to be helping, but it still seems to have something that's seizing up periodically.

Edit: and another seizure from 11:43 to 11:48--so 5 minutes down with 20 minutes in between, just about exactly. That sounds like something is on a schedule, and hoses the server every time it runs. A backup job running amok, or something? (Hopefully it isn't rooted...)

[Gearjammer]

Tried to load the page at 9:25 AM Pacific today, big lag spike, took around 2-3 minutes to load the front page in.

Last night around 10 PM Pacific time it was almost instant.

[Morrus]

Something clealry periodically "happens" on the server. If I could pin it down to exactly how often it is, I might be able to identify it.

[Intrope]

Originally Posted by Morrus

Something clealry periodically "happens" on the server. If I could pin it down to exactly how often it is, I might be able to identify it.

5 minutes of downtime, 20 minutes up time--see my edit above. This is consistent with a number of people's comments, too. Hope it's something easy to fix! (I know it's not easy to find...)

[Morrus]

So something that's happening every half hour for 5 mins or so? or every quarter hour for 5 mins?

There are some scheduled tasks that are taking place in the background, but they're all at 15/30 or 60 minute repeated intervals. Nothing at 20 minutes.

[Mark]

Something just now killed it for a few minutes.

[darjr]

Yea, just saw that. Not slow, but dead.

About 12:07 my time and now it's back. Was not able to keep trying the whole time so I'm not sure how long it was down.

[Ashrum the Black]

still a touch slow, and a bit of lag, but hey, at least the pages show up at 1:30 in the afternoon instead of just clocking away like crazy.

-Ashrum

[Umbran]

Originally Posted by Morrus

Something clealry periodically "happens" on the server. If I could pin it down to exactly how often it is, I might be able to identify it.

Morrus, check your PMs, please. I think I can help with this.

[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by Morrus

So something that's happening every half hour for 5 mins or so? or every quarter hour for 5 mins?

There are some scheduled tasks that are taking place in the background, but they're all at 15/30 or 60 minute repeated intervals. Nothing at 20 minutes.

I've searched the machine top to bottom. I'm guessing it's a hacker's cron job but its damn well hidden whatever it is.

[Eosin the Red]

The site seemed normal last night but is dragging today.

[Obryn]

It hung a bit for me just now.

Overall, though, everything seems quite zippy, including the forums.

-O

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Mark

Something just now killed it for a few minutes.

Happened again at 12:33 pm central USA time, for several minutes.

[Morrus]

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

I've searched the machine top to bottom. I'm guessing it's a hacker's cron job but its damn well hidden whatever it is.

I just disabled five scheduled tasks which we weren't using, plus one related to PHPAds... we're not using that, are we?

[Gearjammer]

Just tried to log in again, at 12:14 PM Pacific time. The front page partially loaded after 3 minutes, then loaded completely after 6 minutes. Once loaded to get to the forums it was a 5 second load time or so.

[Intrope]

From 2:14 Central to 2:25, I couldn't reload this thread, although I never waited as long as Gearjammer.

[Ghaerdon Fain]

It's much faster. Thx. No headaches today :-)

[kreynolds]

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