Slowness....like a mofo....

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

What's up with the slow servers again Admin? Di you put the search feature back on?
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

We didn't change anything. Anyway, we will be experimenting with caching software (Zend Performance Suite) this week and next to see if it will improve speed. Hopefully it will do wonders.
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

I've implemented some caching in the index page of phpBB and the viewforum.php page. As a side effect, the index page might be a little unsynchronized sometimes (at most it will be 5 minutes off). Hopefully this will help with the server speed.
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Rufus! · Trick Member Joined: 13 Mar 2002

Just to add its extremely slow during the peak times 6-7pm US time.. Also I wanna ask if anyones had problem with forum codes since these experienments happened? cos I have.

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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:55 am Post subject:

There's this problem that I have sometimes...sometimes the DDRFreak page doesn't work AT ALL..is it something wrong with the server or something?Has anyone else had this problem before?
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CStarFlare · Maniac Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

I've had that problem, too. There was a 2 day period recently where I went to DDRFreak and waited somewhere around 10 minutes before closing the window and doing something else.

Then I asked Remy if he was able to get on, he says yes, and BAM. It loads within a minute. *shrug*

Poochy · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 8:12 pm Post subject:

I seem to be experiencing a really weird but similar problem. EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to load a page, it waits a few seconds, starts loading, then the transmission speed drops to about 1KB/s, pauses for about 20 seconds, skyrockets to nearly double the original speed for about 2 seconds, then the cycle repeats until the page finishes loading. So now it takes two minutes per page thanks to the pauses.
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2003 9:04 pm Post subject:

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

I have implemented caching for most of the sections of the site. You should notice a pretty large speed improvement. Right now it's kind of a hack, so you may experience slowness for several minutes after the hour turns, but for the most part, it should be faster. We will work on a more permanent solution in the next couple of weeks.
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mrÖ¼selfÖ¼Äestruct · Maniac Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002 Location: a warm place

It's better now, but the past few days, the site has still been pretty slow. And even tonight still, I'll get the random "Page cannot be displayed" error, I refresh and its fine. Also, that "slight delay" you talked about.. it's a lot more than 5 minutes. For instance, I've had it say person A had the newest post at 1:27 am in a forum, and when I go there, it shows person B having the newest post @ 1:42 am (and this is about 1:50).

Just letting you know, that caching thing delays things a lot more than you initially anticipated.
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

P-Chan · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 1:14 pm Post subject:

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

If that happens again, note the time it takes place. If it happens 5 minutes past the hour, I may know why it's happening.
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P-Chan · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:44 pm Post subject:

well... it happened faster than I thought it´d do so

I tried to go from page 3 to page 1 at this topic
my good old clock said it was 4:38pm
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

im getting a post dealy thing right now with about 15 minutes between the last real post and the last post the index said was made (and it was right before too)
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Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:20 pm Post subject:

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Kidou Ninja · Trick Member Joined: 19 Apr 2002

Well I thought I would let you all know that it is 1:53 Central right now and it says for instance last post was made at like 1:15am and the latest post is actually 1:47am. Dunno if you knew about this or something is being done but I thought I would let you know since you wanted to.