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MililaniBuckeye;987308; said:
Anyone else been experiencing dail-up type page loads today? Not like that over a month ago when the page would sit for over a minute and do nothing and then load, but rather the page starting to load immediately but just loading slow as shit...
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I've had that on occasion, but a "Stop" and re-click on the link usually does the trick (Refresh will not)

I had a white screen the other day (with code), but it was a one time thing.
 
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Clarity;987673; said:
Fish nibbling on the cable stretched between California and Hawaii again, I'm guessing. I haven't noticed anything, and the mysql data doesn't show a problem (that's generally been the source of our slow-downs), but let me know (everyone) if you're experiencing issues.
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Fine for me, it must be one of those PEBKAC errors Mili.
 
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very slow twice this morning around 6:30AM, and again around 7:00, but then back to normal - it might be the connection on my side... nope, just looked outside and didn't see anyone working in holes in the ground - insider for Big Papa :wink:
 
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vBulletin is a little odd in the way it handles certain things. One is its cronjob process. There's code in every page load, a little bit of j.a.v.a.s.c.r.i.p.t (periods because we don't allow such dangerous terms) -- but let's just call it a gnome. This gnome sits down at the bottom of the page, every page, and checks the time, then checks its schedule of jobs. If it's supposed to take out the trash at 4am, but then no one loads a page here until 4:05am, then that person (the first load after 4) is getting their page "plus." Where the page doesn't complete its load until the server-side processing (the gnome taking out the garbage) is done. A few of these gnome tasks are very server intensive. Which can mean that not only does the page not fully complete its load (and all this means is that everything is there, but your browser activity icon is still animated), but the added stress of the gnome task is also significantly slowing the site down.

Now, there aren't just a *ton* of these, and there are a ton of page loads every day. So it's highly unlikely (slightly less so for our night owls, however) that the same person would be subjected to the same extra page weight with any regularity. However, it's one (of many) possible explanations as to why sometimes some pages load slower than others, but just for very limited periods of time.

The other possible explanations (beyond the gnomes) are illegal immigrants, Ryan Seacrest, frivolous lawsuits (no joke), global warming, dying bee populations, Franklin University, and man-bear-pig.
 
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Made some changes tonight, including upgrading vbSEO to 3.1.0. Will be interested to know if anything seems faster over the next few days.

Still need to replace our ram at some point. We're down to 2gb from 4, and the difference has been relatively obvious machine-side.
 
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Couldn't get anything for about 3-4 minutes...kept timing out with "can't find the page" error. When the forum front page finally loaded (after about the fifth or sixth refresh) and I clicked on the Administrative Forum, the same thing happened. After about the third refresh, the header area loaded fairly slowly and then locked for a minute or so before finally loading. When I clicked on this thread, it timed out twice and on the third refresh it loaded near instantly. This started around 6:10 PM HST (11:10 PM EST).
 
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