Was really bad for me around 12:00 noon, but I was experiencing on other sites as well. Maybe they're doing routine maintenance on the internet servers?
it looks like things were slow for a while due to a windows update and a reboot.
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the unknown pervert Deactivated User
I'd like to stay but I've got a plane to catch. 3243 Posts 5/06
Posted - May 26 2007 : 4:45PM
It was so slow earlier (9:00-10:00am CDT) that I gave up out of frustration. It is better now but there is still a hiccup whenever I reply to a topic. When I click on Reply to Topic the little green bars at the bottom of my screen that show how much has loaded (sorry I don't know the tech term for this thingamajig) fill up once for the message box and then reset and fill up again for the top banner. I have had a couple of times where the standard could not connect to site message has popped up in the top banner though I could still post a reply.
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the unknown pervert Deactivated User
I'd like to stay but I've got a plane to catch. 3243 Posts 5/06
Posted - May 26 2007 : 4:47PM
Just noticed it does the same thing in reverse when I enter my post. The green bars fill up once for the top banner and then reset and fill up again before the Message Has Been Posted and You Will Now Return to The Forum part comes up.
I noticed that we were getting 4,000 visitors per hour earlier today due to that underage photographer story. It made it to the top 10 on Digg.com earlier today. There was a link to ADT in that article. I think that was causing some of the slowdowns.
The last hour it has been slow again, I am practically unable to post or even load a whole page. I have been trying to post this message for 30minutes now....
I'm not sure what's going on. Each time I test it it's normal/fast. We're no longer on satellite so I can run decent speed tests from a couple of different ISPs.
I suspect there's a router down somewhere out there since it's only causing problems for some people and not others.
I'm monitoring the processors and memory usage on the web server and database server. The 4 processors in both systems typically hover between 4%-6% usage with brief spikes to 50% or so. Each system is only using half of the available RAM. The drives are rarely accessed due in-memory caching.
We're well within our allocated bandwidth too. We have a dedicated 10mbit circuit and we're hovering around 2mbit-3mbit/sec actual usage.
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test user Deactivated User
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Posted - May 28 2007 : 6:11PM
For the people reporting that the site is slow, what browsers are you using? I don't think it's a browser issue but it's information that might help me track this down.
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conquistador Deactivated User
Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03
Posted - May 28 2007 : 6:25PM
I use firefox 2.0.0.3
Over the past couple of days during the times that other users have reported substantial slowdown I experienced some. But not nearly as bad as other people.
So I didn't bother to mention it, but I did notice it.
Friday (I think) around 2 or 2:30 pm was the worst for me.