somthing is slowing things down: 11:00 Seattle

[Hand of Evil]

Piratecat is eatting all the bandwidth!

No improvement.

 

[BSF]

It's still looking pretty darned slow for me at this time. We have an 8Mb connection to the internet and I am able to pull up multiple sites while waiting for a thread to appear on EN World.

It is very odd since everything seemed fine yesterday.

 

[Michael Morris]

This is very depressing. I've restarted apache.

 

[Allanon]

I'm at home now and the speed still is dreadfull. I timed opening this topic with a stopwatch and it took 7 minutes and 23 seconds. As others have stated everything seems to come directly from the server as virtually nothing seems to instantly appear from cache.

I'm on a 2048 down/1024 up ADSL connection at home with no proxy server or badly configured firewall in site. Other american sites have not problems loading whatsoever.
I've tried both Firefox and IE from here an it makes no difference. I retract my former statement in that it seems localised to leading threads as the main forum pages are slow too.

Firefox shows a lot of 'Waiting for Enworld" messages so either the communication is interupted somewhere along the line or the server itself is slow, but seeing as no other sites are experiencing the same slowdown option number 2 seems more likely.

EDIT: mmm... suddenly Firefox seems a lot faster but that could be due to a better caching routine...

 

[BSF]

Michael,
I can see where you would be frustrated. Do you have access to the server itself? Maybe you can check the performance? I'm not convinced this is an issue with the server though. Especially since Piratecat indicated it was working great for him.

I believe Cyberstreet uses multiple data paths don't they? Is it possible that one of the lines is in a degraded state? Perhaps some users are coming in on one data pathway and others are coming in on a different data pathway?

I'm just tossing out ideas here. Without knowing how the infrastructure is configured, it is hard to guess at.

 

[Michael Morris]

I have turned reviews off to see if it's the cause.

 

[EricNoah]

Let's see, is Mortality.net on Cyberstreet? Maybe I'll give that a shot...

Edit: Mortality was blazin'.

 

[Michael Morris]

MySQL's memory use dropped significantly - so I'm starting to think it is reviews causing the trouble. I need outside confirmation though - for the record my page loads have never dropped outside the 1 minute window.

 

[EricNoah]

Speed has picked up momentarily at least for me.

Edit: spoke too soon... still slow.

 

[pdkoning]

Now images are loaded from my local cache! -> a real speed increase. I think it is a good idea to wait until everyone has visited enough pages on enworld to have everything important in their cache, and than see if everything returns to normal speed again.