What happened!?!

[The Shadow]

Nah, this forum is slow.  Every other site will work fine for me, but this one, sometimes it will take 10, 15 minutes for a simple page, like "New Replies to your Posts" or just when I hit the reply button.  Yet every web site will work.

What was the cause of the downtime, by the way? 

 

[Janus]

Nah, this forum is slow.  Every other site will work fine for me, but this one, sometimes it will take 10, 15 minutes for a simple page, like "New Replies to your Posts" or just when I hit the reply button.  Yet every web site will work.

"New replies to your Posts" basically is going to be slow, particularly if you've posted in a lot of topics. The queries needed for that are a lot of work for the database. The Reply button shouldn't be slow, though.

What was the cause of the downtime, by the way?

Apparently this particular core PHP Fastcgi setup has the propensity for randomly occasionally having its worker processes stop responding. Once all of the workers eventually die off in that way, PHP of course no longer responds until restarted. I'll probably just need to add in a cron job to restart PHP once a week or so to keep it working. I'd like to just switch to PHP-FPM which I use on the Repository, but I'd need to manually compile it and Armagan prefers we stick to stuff available through Aptitude for stability and ease of updates anyway.

EDIT: wow, a lot of people on today too... the most visitors online at a time in the history of the forum.

 

[bugman]

Party time?

 

[DameGreyWulf]

Mm, I sometimes have random moments of laggy page-loading myself, but I'm almost certain it's my Internet's and/or browsers' problem.

 

[DSparil]

In the past few days it has become very, veeerryyyyyyy slow for me, I almost feel like I'm on a 56k when browsing it. Doesn't happen with any other website.

 

[Sheriff-murder]

It has been very, very slow today for me until now.
Got quick after the few seconds of down-time.

Edit: Scrap that, going slow again.

Has the server ever been changed?

 

[Janus]

Not since Armagan moved it to its own server separate from the main website and converted to SMF from phpBB, way back when. It was actually on a rather outdated machine even then. 

 

[Taimat396]

Its plenty fast for me, though I get that error page from yesterday every so often for no reason. Have done for awhile. A refresh usually fixes it.

But why is it fast for me and slow for others? I'm on 50kbps here :/

 

[Seff]

Not since Armagan moved it to its own server separate from the main website and converted to SMF from phpBB, way back when. It was actually on a rather outdated machine even then. 

Ah yes, the good old days.

 

[Elenmmare]

It seems that its only North Americans getting a slow server. I'm in Asia-Pacific and have been getting whipping speeds since I started using this in 2007.

 

[Llew2]

I'd like to confirm the slowness.

 

[Lyze]

I'd like to de-confirm slowness.

I tried writing that sentence five times, but Vil said it best.
However, there are problems occasionally when the entire forum will refuse to load, instead attempting to load for up to or over 15 minutes and then presenting a blank screen and a ... crap, can't remember the query, but it had to do with the server. Next time it occurs, I'll record it.

 

[Regendur]

The only times I get lag here on the forums is when I click on a link. It happens rarely, but it sometimes takes forever to load. (Boy, that was poorly worded.)

 

[The Shadow]

It's generally slow clicking on things, like reply, modify, etc.  Or just a topic or the next page. 

Occasionally the whole forum will ping out, and I'll have to wait ten minutes to get it to work again.


And I have pretty damn good internet, too. 

 

[ComingWinter]

How much are you paying for that? 

My download is around 22 Mb/s but my upload is only 3 Mb/s.

 

[Taimat396]

Uhh, both of those are better than his. That's in kilobytes, not bits.

 

[Whoopin]

Forums are ultra-whoopin-fast when I have firefox block images from forums.taleworlds.com.

 

[McBeverage]

ultra-whoopin-fast

Did you really just say that?




Anyways, I too have noticed a slowdown in the last month or two.
Not a massive one, but a noticeable one at least.

 

[Whoopin]

ultra-whoopin-fast

Did you really just say that?




Anyways, I too have noticed a slowdown in the last month or two.
Not a massive one, but a noticeable one at least.

Yep, its a good word to add to your single word story, youre welcome.

BTW its so fast its like I pressed the Turbo button - dont miss the clutter images anyway.

 

[Corndawg]

I usually have a fast connection on TW, but sometimes it will, as said earlier, grind to a halt and take a while for a page to come up. I don't mind the wait though.