somthing is slowing things down: 11:00 Seattle

[reanjr]

The site isn't exactly blazing, but neither is it slow. 5 second load times seem the norm.

 

[BSF]

Wow. It just sped up dramatically for me.

 

[Super Girl]

4 minutes and 38 seconds when i forced this thread to refresh. I'm on cable.

 

[Michael Morris]

Ok, I'm going to turn reviews back on now - see if was the caching, or if it was the reviews.

 

[Michael Morris]

4 minutes and 38 seconds when i forced this thread to refresh. I'm on cable.

I don't understand how I can be loading at 30 seconds / page and, at the same time, your experiencing a 4 minute load. Check the quality of your connection and your own machine first please.

People, understand that there are things other than the server that can cause slowdowns. That's why I tend to ignore one or two people complaining. When several dozen start complaining though chances are good the problem is on this side.

EDIT: Calming down now - calming down.

 

[pdkoning]

To me it look's like it's the caching.
Now the reviews are turned on, smileys and other images still load from cache.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

There is no way in hell I can be loading at 30 seconds / page and, at the same time, your experiencing a 4 minute load. Check the quality of your connection and your own machine first please.

People, understand that there are things other than the server that can cause slowdowns. That's why I tend to ignore one or two people complaining. When several dozen start complaining though chances are good the problem is on this side.

I'm getting those long load times, too. But they aren't consistent and only happen here and there. From what I can tell, the page just won't display. It tells me that its loaded completely but will only display the 3e logo background. I know my connection is fine, as I'm having no trouble with other sites.

EDIT: Though now its sped it considerably...

 

[EricNoah]

Still sluggish for me too, not really all that different from before. I'm seeing fewer signs of images downloading, and the text of the site loads up reasonably fast somtimes, but it's like some of the advertising or counter/statistics related php stuff is taking longer to finish up.

 

[Michael Morris]

Yeah. I'm starting to think so to. I'm gonna turn stats back on too. Turning caching off on a board this large is impossible without a dedicated image server.

 

[Michael Morris]

Eric, it can take a few hours for all the user's browsers to recache all the images - so we may not see a return to normal until then. Let's wait until this time tomorrow and see if things improve.