Temporary front page

[DagazUlf]

It was definitely quicker right after the temporary page went up, but the performance was horrible yesterday and today. It took 4 refreshes to even get the front page, and getting to this thread was really slow.

 

[Leontodon]

When I viewed a thread and hit the firefox back-button it almost always hangs itself. That's new to me. Also If i viewed a thread and klick for example ENworlds General Discussion button or something like that the same problem occurs.

 

[Michael Morris]

After spending the last 4 days reading the Apache users manual I'm trying a new setting. Less is more.

 

[Merkuri]

After spending the last 4 days reading the Apache users manual I'm trying a new setting. Less is more.

I ran into another long period of lag this morning, so I don't think it helped.

From what I've seen, I don't think it's any MySQL or Apache settings that's causing this. My guess is that you have something on this machine that is running on a regular basis and taking up all of your memory/CPU/whatnot so that Apache and MySQL can't get their job done.

I know in Windows there's a tool called Performance Monitor that'll log a bunch of settings over time, like CPU and memory usage. Is there something you could set up like that for Linux? Take a look and see if there's something using up loads of CPU or RAM every 15 minutes or so.

 

[Michael Morris]

The linux equivalent is top. I can run it, but it shows nothing. However, if the program has been tainted by a hacker there's no way it will show the culprit process. I am not qualified to go making wholesale re-installs of the machine's software components.

 

[Tharian]

Whatever change you made let the front page load very quickly. This is the fastest I've seen it load in a while.

Yesterday was decent, but today was noticeably faster, though. Earlier this week had some very slow loads to the point where on Tuesday (I think?) timed out.

 

[Merkuri]

I don't know if this sheds any light on anything, but the last couple times I tried to come to EN World (which happened to be in the middle of lag spikes, apparently) the very top part of the front page loaded quickly, but the rest of it took a while to appear. The part that showed up right away is the part that says:

EN World
This is a temporary page while we measure the change in server load. Feedback here (speed related only, not content).

Then once the front page appeared it took a while to get into the actual boards. Once the boards started loading it seemed to be back to normal speeds (I presume the lag spike ended).

 

[uraniumdragon]

Don't go back!

I'd have to say I like the current format over the "brand new" format. I can find stuff quicker now than could with the Block format. Of course, I liked last year's format also.