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Unusually slow request times?

JasconiusJasconius sword criminalmad onlineRegistered User regular
edited August 2009 in H.Q. Reception Desk
I've been noticing over the past week or two that the forums seems to be a little sluggish on the requests...

Things like avatars and theme images seem to load almost end-to-end rather than concurrently. It's been doing this on two different home networks and at work on a different machine altogether...

Is this just me?

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Same here, sometimes takes half a minute or longer to load a page and I'm on DSL.

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  • bowenbowen Sup? Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I've noticed a lot of time outs as well, I'm on fiber.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I have noticed this as well. through multiple connections.

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  • BladeXBladeX Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Glad I'm not crazy, I've noticed this as well on multiple connections.

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  • ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Upstream issue to some ISPs.

    Sorry about the late post on the subject, I have been working on it though :-)

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I'm noticing a light improvement today. Still not the same as the days of yore, but not ridiculous like it was last week.

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    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Don't know if it's G&T-specific, but I keep getting a lot of failed page-loads and the like. Other sites seem to be working as normal, and I didn't have any trouble navigating here, but I seem to hit patches of "internet explorer can't do squat".
    Anything up?

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  • ronzoronzo Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    i'm seeing similar stuff. Pages failing to load, taking forever for requests or process, logging me out when i try to post

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Been having this today as well.

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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    yeah i've seen this but only during the 'peak' hours

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  • xWonderboyxxWonderboyx Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    This has been happening to me ever since I moved into my new place in MD. I usually have to hit refresh 4 or 5 times for any given page to load and it has really made me not want to visit the site lately.

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  • Johnny ChopsockyJohnny Chopsocky Scootaloo! We have to cook! Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Started happening for me about 2 weeks ago. Sometimes it'll time out, sometimes it'll come right up. Sometimes I can edit, sometimes it just hangs there for minutes on end, decided whether or not to let me edit.

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    Really, really slow request times for me tonight. Upwards of 3 minutes per page on Opera 10. "Only" about 50 seconds per page with Opera 9.6. Internet Explorer starts loading in about 5-10 seconds.

    Please don't make me use IE.

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  • GonmunGonmun He keeps kickin' me in the dickRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm getting some slow request times this morning. Using IE presently. It's timed out a couple of times thus far. I've normally experienced it a bit during peak hours but I didn't think 11:00 am atlantic time was really considered peak for the rest of you.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    it's been quite slow for me all day today.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Forum's been really slow for me for a few days now, using Chrome.

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  • ronzoronzo Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    echo above, except i'm using safari 4

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm getting a bunch of botched requests and slow request times today.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    It's like some commercial TV host person has replaced the server farm running PA with a TRS-80, and has said "...let's see if they notice."

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  • CyvrosCyvros Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I think I like it better.

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited July 2009
    Super long again tonight. Still on Opera 10.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I've noticed sporadic lengthy request times as well, both on Chrome (at home) and IE (at work).

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Been pretty bad all night.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    About an hour after I posted it cleared up for me. What temporary nonsense causes this?

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  • UEAKCrashUEAKCrash heh Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm having problems now, takes forever to switch pages, and get lots of "webpage not available."

    Using chrome.

    edit: and now it seems to have cleared up, now that I posted about it. But it has been acting up the past few days pretty bad for me.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Very slow here -sometimes-

    Usually closing my browser and reloading the page will get me several page loads, but after the first 8 or so different threads, it won't refresh or anything anymore. Not having any problems with any other pages.

    Using Firefox 3.5.current

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Adding weight the number of users suffering sporadic issues in recent weeks.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Well, I wouldn't say suffering. I'm more worried about our glorious overlords who have to get carpal tunnel syndrome deleting all the PMs and e-mails from idiots who think complaining loudly fixes things.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    This is weird. The forums are loading in Chrome, but I haven't been able to load them in Firefox for the last hour or so.

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  • YarYar Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Right now in IE they are the slowest I've ever seen. Haven't tried Chrome.

    I don't feel that I am getting my money's worth from this site. /s

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  • gigEsmallsgigEsmalls __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2009
    Does the server need a reboot? It's very slow for all of us so I bet money it's the server.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    My tax dollars are all to this site.
    I have a petition here with 4 million signatures demanding upgraded servers.
    Join the facebookgroup www.facebook.com/upgradePAservers
    Watch my vlog about the servers being slow.
    Digg this post!
    Servers are slightly slow, not a big deal, but sometimes they jam up completely and I have to reload my whole browser. ):

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  • Dunadan019Dunadan019 Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Im hoping that alphamonkey is too busy fixing the problem to acknowledge that there is one.

    either that or he's too busy doing blow off a strippers thigh to care.

    both are good options.

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  • Folken FanelFolken Fanel anime af When's KoFRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Running slow on Safari v.4. I want my money back.

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm getting it too.

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  • theSquidtheSquid Sydney, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Me too, on four different comps running various Linux distros, Firefox and Chromium.

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  • jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    very slow
    missing/dupe posts

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  • ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hey Guys,

    Sorry about the trouble. I went on vacation the week before Comic Con, so I was effectively out of commission for two weeks in a row. Ramius and I are working on a solution, but it might take a while.

    Tech Details:
    We are disk bound on our MySQL server. Specifically, we are doing a lot of small block random io because MySQL's full text search system blows chunks. Simply buying an additional server isn't going to help much as the master/slave database setup for vBulletin did not end well the last time we tried it. The solution is going to be using Sphinx.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm pretty sure Ramius is the real problem.

    Have you considered replacing him with an open source full text search?

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  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    It seems to be much better today, with just an occasional hangup not lasting more than a minute or so.

    This is my experience thusfar.

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