EXTREME Sloooooooooowness!

emkat · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:34 am Post subject: EXTREME Sloooooooooowness!

I don't know if anyone else has experienced a very BIG lag between clicking a thread and loading a page. But it's gotten to the point where IE will sit there for almost 3 minutes still waiting for the page to load.

I use both IE and Mozilla 1.4, and am on a DSL connection. I also have this problem when loading up the board on the University of Utah's computers.

Sometimes, I will get the ad-flow error saying that it could not connect or something, but that rarely happens.

Here's a ping I did from the University of Utah last night around 8:30 PM:

Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

Hezkezl · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2002

Several days ago, at 3 in the morning, it took me 10 minutes to open up the reply box and another 10 to submit it to a thread. Not a lot of people from the UofU visit DDRfreak, and from what I know, the connection there is quite fast, so that can't be the reason :-\

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Dread Phirate YYS · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Tucson, Arizona

I don't think people are going to wait till 3 in the morning just to post DEM. It's been laggin heavily with me at all hours of the day. IN fact this last saturday I was online just trying to post my banners for a half an hour.
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Sk1p · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 1:31 pm Post subject:

I already posted a thread about this that was ignored by the admins. Just learn to deal with it, I guess.
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Dread Phirate YYS · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Tucson, Arizona

Well that sucks. No admin attention = nothing getting done about it. Let's start a riot.....
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Rufus! · Trick Member Joined: 13 Mar 2002

Don't mean to moan too much but its been slow 24/7 recently... I know cos I come on alot and during 12-5am UK time its normally fast as lightening. Just wanna know if you guys know anything about it.
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Sk1p · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:38 pm Post subject:

I say we just drop the issue and learn to deal with it. Spike and company always responded with saucy comments when asked about this in months past, and now admins just completely ignore questions about server speed. Sounds a bit like the step charts and the videos, eh? Oh well. We'll live.
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cfusionpm · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: San Diego, CA

i could deal with the slow speed if i didnt have to load a page up to 2 or 3 times because of that fucking broken ad bullshit. i made a thread about it in site feedback and it seems no one is paying attention to that either.
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Drenchfur · Trick Member Joined: 27 Feb 2003

I wanna complain too!

Well, this forum isn't out to make money so having a fast server isn't a big deal. If eBay was like this, it would cost them millions. They're down about 2 hours a week (?) for maintenance and almost always fast - yet they're bombarded with requests compared to here.

I'm wondering (and I'm sure it's been asked before) what sort of server runs this forum? I imagine it's a single overworked machine whose hard drive light never stops flickerin'. Nobody plays games or anything on it which can contribute to slowness, do they?

Probably adding to the problem: When there's several threads I want to read, sometimes I right-click and "open in new window" each one so I won't have to wait forever to switch topics. The first one that shows up is where I begin to read.

That said, I appreciate the time and money that has gone into making and keeping this board alive. Thanks.

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

I would really like to make the server faster too... if it were as simple a solution as throwing money for hardware I'd do it. Currently the server is a 4 way xeon with 1 GB of ram and SCSI RAID5 storage. I suspect the search feature is slowing down the server, and I am willing to take it away (or at least make it harder to get to) if it'll make the server faster, and people are willing to try it out.
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Dread Phirate YYS · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Tucson, Arizona

Woot!! Mods doing something!!! Sw33t.
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IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

I don't know about others, but I rarely (if ever) use the search function. I think the search function can be sacrificed for the speed of the site.
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Mr. Deus · Trick Member Joined: 27 Dec 2002 Location: smooveville

Ehh, it seems to be running at good speeds now. I don't see any reason to change anything.

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