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[morbidgames]

The Slow Down

The site is running significantly better right now, but it's still a bit slow compared to any of the other RPG related sites I visit. Before this new text only page that popped up I'd usually set enworld.org to load in it's own window while I continued to read other pages or do something else because of the long load time. It seemed to be the case regardless if I was at work or at home.

Work Specs: Windows box with Firefox 2
Home Specs: OS X 10.5 with Safari 3

 

[Serendipity]

Win!! Seems to have utterly resolved the issue.

 

[cougent]

Win!! Seems to have utterly resolved the issue.

And then again maybe not...

While in the forums I got a Network Tiemout screen twice while trying to move to another thread. Closed browser completely and started over [Firefox 3 opens 4 tabs, 1 of which is ENW] It took over 5 minutes just to load the temp text page. [2:05 pm CDT - 2:11 pm CDT] This loaded fast and the New Reply loaded instantly, now we will see if it will submit...

 

[gnfnrf]

I have inconsistent results. Sometimes, the main page loads faster, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes, the forums move along at an OK clip, sometimes they don't.

Sorry I can't be more specific, but it really seems all over the place.

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gnfnrf

 

[Serendipity]

And then again maybe not...

Yeah, no sooner had I spoken...... :: wince ::
Load times have been extraordinary pretty much since I made this comment. About half the time a page will time out before it finishes loading.

 

[Steve Jung]

The problem is getting worse. Now the site seems to stick every 10-20 minutes or so.

Mac OSX 10.4.11
Safari 3.1.2

 

[Serendipity]

Agreed that performance seems to be deteriorating - it took twenty minutes for this page to load (There's some irony there I'm sure.)
For the record, running Firefox 2.0.0.16 on an XP machine with SP 3. Hope that helps.

 

[_sheepy_]

Much faster. Very much appreciated.

 

[Cergorach]

Sometimes the forum loads very quickly, other times it won't laod at all (times out after x amount of time).

Might I suggest that you look at the harddrive(s) of the server. I've had similar experiences with my fileserver, unexplained slow downs that where caused by a harddrive that wasn't wholy dead yet (but didn't show up on any standard tests, I heard the 'clicking sounds of death' by accident).

 

[Bialaska]

It seems just as laggy and slow-loading as always. And as always there are times where everything is super-fast, but it was that way before too, so that's nothing new. :/