somthing is slowing things down: 11:00 Seattle

[Michael Morris]

I'll investigate. My first hunch is downloads - that's the newest addition and is therefore the most suspect.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

And now 10 minutes later it's down to a crawl...

 

[Michael Morris]

No downloads are in progress or have been done in the last 20 minutes. I've dialed down the maximum allowed connections to 50, but that's not it.

The next suspect is the reviews section. From a database optimization standpoint that thing is horribly written (I'm not trying to be mean - there's just no other way to say it). It wouldn't surprise me that having that database active again is causing the lag.

I can turn off some un-neccessary frills, like the redirects system, but I'd rather hold off and hold off until I get Thomas to take a look at the log. A lot of things can cause lag, not just the server itself. And my inclination is that it isn't the server, but something enroute, that's getting stained.

 

[EricNoah]

Slow for me here, too.

edit: I keep seeing it sort of "hang" on two or three specific files. I can't see the whole string but I see

statistics_java...
phpads
images/anniversary ?

But then this could just be because it's slow in general and each bit of the site is taking longer to load up.

 

[pdkoning]

Here it also seems incredibly slow. (speed about 500 bytes/second) and long times before http requests get answered. The ping times although, are normal: arround 120-130 msec. Most servers in the USA have a ping time of arround 130 msec (I checked some). So the connection is not the point. It appears to be the server load.

 

[Michael Morris]

I just turned something off. Does that help?

 

[EricNoah]

I'm not noticing a difference.

Any thoughts about why my computer would be re-downloading images (the buttons, etc.) each time? Is there a cache setting (on your end or maybe on my end) that would be forcing this to happen?

 

[DMH]

No. I have a cable connection and last night and today each page takes 1-3 minutes to load. Heck while I am typing this the smilies are slowly being added. Now they are there.

 

[pdkoning]

No, it is not anything faster now.
Like EricNoah said: it looks like things are not stored in the cache, the smilies indeed have to reload every time. This might be the case with other items that are usually retrieved from the local browser cache and are now retransmitted every time.

 

[Michael Morris]

I'm not noticing a difference.

Any thoughts about why my computer would be re-downloading images (the buttons, etc.) each time? Is there a cache setting (on your end or maybe on my end) that would be forcing this to happen?

Yes, It was turned on. Turned that off.