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[mudskipper]

Same time next week?

[Bunk]

V slow here at times just now. Newsletter is on its way out and this does cause a bit of a strain on the server but also noticed a stray gzip process running. Traced it back to logrotate which was running at 11:27. Fine on most days but a bit too much pressure on the server on newsletter days so have change cron.daily to run at 4:30 am which should help for next week.

That'll slow down BP posting in the insomnia thread though

[administrator]

V slow here at times just now. Newsletter is on its way out and this does cause a bit of a strain on the server but also noticed a stray gzip process running. Traced it back to logrotate which was running at 11:27. Fine on most days but a bit too much pressure on the server on newsletter days so have change cron.daily to run at 4:30 am which should help for next week.

[doodab]

At least we know one thing, the OP read a book or a paragraph on the internet and ballooned here about what an expert (read a-hole) he is on here......

I suspect it's related to trying to use debian or slackware as a desktop OS on some underpowered zillion year old machine. My super powered quad core 32GB pile of windows awesomeness posts so fast I keep getting told to wait between posts.

[stek]

At least we know one thing, the OP read a book or a paragraph on the internet and ballooned here about what an expert (read a-hole) he is on here......

[SpontaneousOrder]

How narrow minded is that? Because it works for you, it doesn't mean it works for everybody. I hope your line of business has got nothing to do with customer service.

By the way, do you work for some bank in Luxembourg?

If it works great for me then it's not likely to be some problem with the choice of OS is it? Unless I have a magic internet connection which makes other people's hardware speed up.

[fullyautomatix]

Is everything ok with dmesg and the Apache and *sql logs?

Apache or mysql might run from a separate partition and that could be (partially) corrupted.

At first I thought it was me because I'm abroad but even in the UK I had problems posting, after clicking the send button. It might freeze for 40-45 secs and then timeout. But then, if it's only me reporting this problem, it might well be a problem on my side of the connection.

Have you tried rebooting your laptop ?

[administrator]

You never know what kind of absent poster might be tempted to come back for a TPD re-opening.....

OK, is open for the minute, let's see how it goes...

I would add that I know there is javascript that will watch how fast a page loads and return it to the server. Was looking at adding it as part of the Custome.rs application we are very slowly (very being the operative word) working on....

Sounds good! One of the other sites I work on, a minefield of custom PHP, I could really do with something that shows the different stages in load times and where the bottlenecks are... Will get around to it eventually!

[eek]

I would add that I know there is javascript that will watch how fast a page loads and return it to the server. Was looking at adding it as part of the Custome.rs application we are very slowly (very being the operative word) working on....

[DirtyDog]

I was thinking about that the other day! It might be worth a fiddle...

You never know what kind of absent poster might be tempted to come back for a TPD re-opening.....

[administrator]

So you'll be re-opening TPD then?

I was thinking about that the other day! It might be worth a fiddle...

[administrator]

The clue is in

I ping the site and the latency is ok, but it takes ages to load the page, and that's the only site that behaves so, mainly in the evening.

Then you have to look at how the software works (lots of queries some of which are cached for a few seconds when lots of people are using the site).

Hence page speed may be slower at night because there are less cached queries being used so more calls to the database.....

Personally as its 1 person complaining rather than a lot of people I doubt there is much to worry about.....

Yeah I did take note of that line but as the ping (latency) is not Apache then looking at the Apache monitoring graph it shows no slow down in Apache.

Appreciate the caching but would also have thought that when there are less people on the site at night then the load on the DB will be a heck of a lot lower so it shouldn't take as long to answer.

Agree on volume of people reporting it being a good indicator of local as opposed to whole of internet seeing the same problem.

Is everything ok with dmesg and the Apache and *sql logs?

Apache or mysql might run from a separate partition and that could be (partially) corrupted.

At first I thought it was me because I'm abroad but even in the UK I had problems posting, after clicking the send button. It might freeze for 40-45 secs and then timeout. But then, if it's only me reporting this problem, it might well be a problem on my side of the connection.

Just a single partition on the machine so corruption there isn't likely to be the problem. Yeah dmesg all OK and nothing untoward in any other logs.

Will try some test posts tonight, feel free to PM me or post here when you are noticing a delay in posting replies and I will check some more bits out.

[DirtyDog]

Never had the problem with the site loading slowly here, at any time of day.

So you'll be re-opening TPD then?

[eek]

Is everything ok with dmesg and the Apache and *sql logs?

Apache or mysql might run from a separate partition and that could be (partially) corrupted.

At first I thought it was me because I'm abroad but even in the UK I had problems posting, after clicking the send button. It might freeze for 40-45 secs and then timeout. But then, if it's only me reporting this problem, it might well be a problem on my side of the connection.

40-45seconds isn't a web server issue. That is a networking issue......

Run fiddler or developer tools on the browser and see what the network tab tells you.

[petergriffin]

Is everything ok with dmesg and the Apache and *sql logs?

Apache or mysql might run from a separate partition and that could be (partially) corrupted.

At first I thought it was me because I'm abroad but even in the UK I had problems posting, after clicking the send button. It might freeze for 40-45 secs and then timeout. But then, if it's only me reporting this problem, it might well be a problem on my side of the connection.