Boards Sluggish Today?

[Mark]

Doesn't seem consistent, though. At least, last night they were going pretty quick.

Perhaps, then, something that when combined with a high traffic period causes sluggishness.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Right now (Tuesday, 11:45 am US Central Time) they are really bad.

I was just in the Rules forum. I clicked on the "new thread" button and it took over 30 seconds to pop up the screen. When I was done with my post, I hit "submit" and it took 80 seconds to post (I timed it).

So, I bopped over here, where it took 45 seconds to open this thread after clicking on the title in the thread list.

Google is fine for me this morning.

 

[Truth Seeker]

WOW!!! the LAg is bad here today, I had to fight to get one article up, five times....where is that GREMLIN!!!!

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Yes, very slow for me too. Several minutes to open most pages on enworld, the rest of the net is just fine.

 

[Grazzt]

Right now (Tuesday, 11:45 am US Central Time) they are really bad.

Yep 105pm EST here and this is the slowest I remember the site in a while. Im at work on a 3MB fiber connection. Everything else is fine...except this site. (Have pages open to Slashdot, NeoWin, SonicWall, Necromancer Games boards, and a handful of other places, plus streaming music from ITunes radio section....everything is speedy and normal, except ENWorld.)

 

[Morrus]

Yep, there's definitely a slowdown. My suspicion is that it's connected to the post index problem, although I can't be sure. The index will be rebuilt this week - we'll see if that fixes it!

 

[Turjan]

Yesterday it was sluggish, today it's extremely slow. I get 'server not found' messages, or it took several minutes per page to load. At the moment it's a slight bit better.

 

[Crothian]

someone hit the gas pedal, they just sped up over the past half hour.

 

[Mark]

someone hit the gas pedal

That'll happen as the lunch hour moves westward and drops off into the Pacific Ocean. When it gets toward the end of the business day on the east coast of the US, it slow a bit again and that'll slide across the country...

...if, as surmised (based party on what Jdvn1 said above) the problem is worsened by increases in traffic.

 

[Tom Cashel]

If the boards are sluggish for you, try pruning your Ignore list down to less than 250 usernames.

So much ignorance plays havoc with the software.