E running slow......

Started by Aemirys, January 11, 2012, 05:05:23 AM

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Aemirys

Is it just me or is E running really slow?

Is Veks making some changes?

Curious more than anything.
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Aemirys

*gets all excited*

I thought so!

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Trieste

You're not the only one; it's been running slow for me, too. Takes forever when I check my PMs or when I go to modify a post.

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Vekseid

Quote from: Trieste on January 11, 2012, 05:12:49 AM
You're not the only one; it's been running slow for me, too. Takes forever when I check my PMs or when I go to modify a post.

How long did this last for?

Aemirys

Not long actually and it wasn't that bad really.
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Izzie Aditi

Had the same problem this morning indeed (around noon GMT+2), even checked downforeveryoneorjustme. Think it lasted 15 minutes for me?
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Aemirys

Yeah 15min sounds about right it wasn't that long.
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Mithlomwen

Quote from: Trieste on January 11, 2012, 05:12:49 AM
You're not the only one; it's been running slow for me, too. Takes forever when I check my PMs or when I go to modify a post.

I've been having the same issues for the past couple of days.  Usually takes about 15 or so seconds for either my PMs to load or to modify a post. 
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Beguile's Mistress

I get lags with PMs and modifications all the time though not every time.  I thought it was just me because other pages load pretty fast when the PMs and modifications lag.

Oniya

I either completely missed it, or it was during my A-V scan (during which everything slows down.)
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jouzinka

Sometimes it happens to me in certain areas of the forums (Hidden Forums) or with exceptionally long posts too.

There are times when E is inaccessible for me too, but as Veks told me before, it sometimes just happens that the connection between US and Europe has problems, in which case I can't access E via the https protocol or by the IP address (which would be nice to have somewhere indexable by Google and therefore accessible through their archive - it usually takes me ages to Google it if E is down. O:)).
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Trieste

Quote from: Vekseid on January 11, 2012, 01:07:37 PM
How long did this last for?

It's been happening on and off. My experience is much like Mithlomwen's - it can take 15+ seconds for PMs to load, and modify is often just hopeless unless I click it a couple times. Can't remember when it started, a week ago maybe? I didn't mention it because the indicator at the bottom wasn't showing jumped-up times so I assumed it was my connection.

Vekseid

Quote from: Mithlomwen on January 11, 2012, 02:36:08 PM
I've been having the same issues for the past couple of days.  Usually takes about 15 or so seconds for either my PMs to load or to modify a post.

Hrm. : /


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'doh

So, I agreed to host another website and it appears they brought along ~1.5 gigs of images with them, and it's making the backup that much bigger, which hurt performance this morning for a bit, as, basically, we're out of RAM, so stuff doesn't get cached that often. I can remove her site's images from the backup, but that only counts for what happened around 4:30-5:15 AM CST this morning. And the backup is still getting close to six gigs even without that.

How often do you run into issue with PMs and editing/modifying posts? Is it happening less often now? I had to restart the database which purged the cache, so it would have been really bad a week ago, but if it's still going on we may have to do a fundraiser : /



jouzinka

Quote from: Vekseid on January 11, 2012, 03:54:16 PM... we may have to do a fundraiser : /
Or another Staff Auction. O:)

Like I said, it's only certain boards and even there only certain topics for me, so I suppose it has nothing to do with this...
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Vekseid

Quote from: jouzinka on January 11, 2012, 04:00:08 PM
Or another Staff Auction. O:)

Like I said, it's only certain boards and even there only certain topics for me, so I suppose it has nothing to do with this...

It'd have to do with the first part of my post, though. The cache read hit rate being down to 99.96%. Which means that one in ~2,500 reads isn't going to be in cache, which, on average, will mean about one in 200 page views. Which you will remember more than those that didn't, especially as members are going to be more likely to hit that then non-members and spiders are.

Beguile's Mistress

It used to happen a lot for me over months but lately it hasn't been as bad.  I use your special help with intros a lot, too, and that's been running slow lest often as well.  It seems that tool, the PMs and the modifications are the ones I had consistent trouble with but it's not as bad any more.  I just thought is my laptop doing it and didn't want to complain.

undisclosedtoyou

Something I've also noticed, although it might not be related to this, is that over the past week a page on E will only load half way.  So I'd be scrolling down a page, and half of it will just cut off.  Which just results in me refreshing the page, and that generally fixes the problem.  Again, that's probably a problem on my end, but just in case it's not, I thought I'd share it here.
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Vekseid

Quote from: undisclosedtoyou on January 11, 2012, 05:16:49 PM
Something I've also noticed, although it might not be related to this, is that over the past week a page on E will only load half way.  So I'd be scrolling down a page, and half of it will just cut off.  Which just results in me refreshing the page, and that generally fixes the problem.  Again, that's probably a problem on my end, but just in case it's not, I thought I'd share it here.

Does this happen only in one browser?

olive

Me too, but only for the last few days. It hangs and lags, and sometimes will not load at all. This is all in one browser, when I have noticed it.

undisclosedtoyou

Quote from: Vekseid on January 12, 2012, 06:13:25 AM
Does this happen only in one browser?

Yup, I haven't tried other browsers, but it only happens, for me, in Firefox.
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Vekseid

Quote from: undisclosedtoyou on January 12, 2012, 02:17:09 PM
Yup, I haven't tried other browsers, but it only happens, for me, in Firefox.

Thing is, unless my understanding of the way gzip-over-http works is wrong, you only begin displaying the page once you've received it all (which is actually something that pisses me off, but that's a separate rant). So if it was something with our server, you wouldn't see anything, whereas a plugin/extension or perhaps a bug in your browser (if updates stopped happening for some reason) could do that.

undisclosedtoyou

Quote from: Vekseid on January 12, 2012, 02:41:47 PM
Thing is, unless my understanding of the way gzip-over-http works is wrong, you only begin displaying the page once you've received it all (which is actually something that pisses me off, but that's a separate rant). So if it was something with our server, you wouldn't see anything, whereas a plugin/extension or perhaps a bug in your browser (if updates stopped happening for some reason) could do that.

Yeah, when you explain it like that, it's probably my end.  In fact, I'm always getting pop ups that say a plug in has slowed or stopped working completely, so yeah, my end.  But at least I know that now, so thank you!
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Aemirys

Quote from: Vekseid on January 12, 2012, 02:41:47 PM
Thing is, unless my understanding of the way gzip-over-http works is wrong, you only begin displaying the page once you've received it all (which is actually something that pisses me off, but that's a separate rant). So if it was something with our server, you wouldn't see anything, whereas a plugin/extension or perhaps a bug in your browser (if updates stopped happening for some reason) could do that.

Sometimes you just need to get up on your soapbox and have a good rant.

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Is anyone else still having problems with this or is it just me?

The past few days it's been taking me 20-30 seconds to load a page. :-\ It's only with E, I've noticed, so I don't think it's my connection.
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Quote from: Saffron on January 22, 2012, 01:54:28 PM
Is anyone else still having problems with this or is it just me?

The past few days it's been taking me 20-30 seconds to load a page. :-\ It's only with E, I've noticed, so I don't think it's my connection.

Right now it's not so good for me. Taking a good 1-2 minutes to post in the intro board.

Kye

I've been having issues off and on, but I wasn't sure if it was E or my connection since I've spent a lot of time at the Coffee shop the last few days.

Zealously Jaded

It's been doing it to me today, only a few times.

Autumn Sativus

Quote from: alxnjsh on January 22, 2012, 01:55:38 PM
Right now it's not so good for me. Taking a good 1-2 minutes to post in the intro board.
It's about the same for me. I'm at a point where I'm giving up on trying since I have other things to be doing. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something I could fix by toying with my settings or my router or something. :-\
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Its taking longer to load pages, like long enough that I'll go do something else and come back. I haven't timed it but yeah.

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Marginally longer for some pages (and it's been on and off all morning), but not by a gross amount.
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Amberghylles

I have had a couple of really slow loading moments today, but it has not been consistently slow for me.

Elandra

It has been consistently slow for me today, no matter what I am doing, posting, clicking on a profile or thread.
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I frequently have lags but only on some pages and if I get impatient I can click the "Stop" icon and then reload.  It usually only takes a second or two after that.  Some days it doesn't happen at all.  I have noticed though that I could be on pages with a lot of data attached, like image threads and one or two Staff pages.

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No problems whatsoever, not when I browse E by phone either.. 8-)

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Caeli

The slow loading times hasn't been related to page content for me - it took me around or over ten seconds to actually "get to" to the main forum page (same kind of lag happened when I tried to post here), though once it started loading, it went up very quickly.
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I've been having problems with speed. And it isn't volume. It took about a minute to get to a four or five post new RP.

Haruki

Usually this place loads up very quickly over my 1.5Mbps DSL line.

Today, it's being very lazy.

Veks, get your server outta bed!  :P

I'm sure something's being worked on and things will be back to full-speed soon enough.
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jouzinka

I'd rather think that things are slow because Veks is working on the server.

Anyway, it is for me too, but seems and on/off thing. Twice I click and it's sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, then I click and things run smooth.
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It's abnormally slow for me as well.

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Beguile's Mistress

It's gotten worse since my last post.  It seems every page is loading slowly now and PMs are slower than usual.


Qt

Yup, certainly something up. There are times where the pages just load fine. Then others where it takes ages. Other sites are fine so I'm sure it's just E.

Phoenixrisen

I've been having this same problem off and on all day to. I have to agree that the lag time when it's lagging is getting worse not better. It was barely noticeable this morning, but seems to be getting progressively worse. It's also only on E for me.
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undisclosedtoyou

I have to say that it's running slow for me to, especially when posting.
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Beguile's Mistress

Just make sure you copy your post or have Lazarus app enabled in Firefox so you don't lose anything.  Along with lagging I've been having issues with the internet connection blinking and making things even more interesting. ::)

Caeli

If you have Chrome, Lazarus is also available as an app. 8-) It's a must-have!
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undisclosedtoyou

Quote from: Beguile's Mistress on January 22, 2012, 04:59:47 PM
Just make sure you copy your post or have Lazarus app enabled in Firefox so you don't lose anything.  Along with lagging I've been having issues with the internet connection blinking and making things even more interesting. ::)

Oh yeah, I'd be a mess without Lazarus!  I've already had to use it here today because of the lagging.

Quote from: Caeli on January 22, 2012, 05:10:06 PM
If you have Chrome, Lazarus is also available as an app. 8-) It's a must-have!

It's an app on firefox to isn't it?  I mean, that's how I use it.
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If I may ask, what is this Lazarus and where do I get it?

It sounds like it comes in handy for saving/caching what one types in forms in case the server lags or croaks.  Normally if you forward or back up or 'x' out of a page, all that 'temporary' content goes poof.
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You can get it in the App Store for Chrome or the Add Ons for Firefox. Just search for Lazarus.
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undisclosedtoyou

Quote from: Haruki on January 22, 2012, 05:25:59 PM
If I may ask, what is this Lazarus and where do I get it?

It sounds like it comes in handy for saving/caching what one types in forms in case the server lags or croaks.  Normally if you forward or back up or 'x' out of a page, all that 'temporary' content goes poof.

It is indeed an add on/app that cache's what you write, so if, say you accidentally hit the back button, or lose a post you've written out, you can get it all back. 

Quote from: Saffron on January 22, 2012, 05:29:55 PM
You can get it in the App Store for Chrome or the Add Ons for Firefox. Just search for Lazarus.

Saff is right, if you do a basic google search for "Lazarus" you'll find it.
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Saerrael

Any news so far why Elli is slow? I'm experiencing slowness at the moment. Just watched a page take about a minute to load.

Callie Del Noire

I don't think it's my connection. I pinged E and Rpol and they both were around 40 ms (RPOL was doing slightly better but not enough to have the lag be caused by connectivity)


Izzie Aditi

Quote from: Saerra on January 22, 2012, 05:44:01 PM
Any news so far why Elli is slow? I'm experiencing slowness at the moment. Just watched a page take about a minute to load.
Just a minute? Try 5, and then it randomly made my text very very small :P  It's entertaining though a bit annoying. Time for bed me thinks ;)
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Autumn Sativus

Veks appears to be away from his computer at the moment.

This two-five minute wait time is getting a bit frustrating for sure. :'(
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Saerrael

Things seem to be clearing up, here. *smiles* Things definitely are loading faster for me.
Good thing I'm using 'docs are the moment. Can't toss Lazarus on a 'top that isn't my own, would be a tad rude.. *grins*
Would be lovely to see what caused this, but not the end of the world if I don't get to learn what happened (or might still be happening).

Rinzler

It seems to be going in fits and starts. Still, not too much of a problem for me - I just keep my Twitter feed going on another tab, and peruse that when things get slow.

Callie Del Noire

Quote from: DeMalachine on January 22, 2012, 06:06:04 PM
It seems to be going in fits and starts. Still, not too much of a problem for me - I just keep my Twitter feed going on another tab, and peruse that when things get slow.

Somewhere..there is a cat jump on a hanging cable..

Saerrael

Quote from: Callie Del Noire on January 22, 2012, 06:11:50 PM
Somewhere..there is a cat jump on a hanging cable..

Nah, sounds like Veks forgot to feed the hamster again...

Rinzler

Quote from: Callie Del Noire on January 22, 2012, 06:11:50 PM
Somewhere..there is a cat jump on a hanging cable..
*coffeesplurtgigglesnort*

Callie Del Noire

Quote from: DeMalachine on January 22, 2012, 06:14:36 PM
*coffeesplurtgigglesnort*

that was what I was doing (I had made some apple cider on my Kruieg at the time)

HockeyGod

slow is better than crashing  :o

Saerrael

Didn't seem like a crash to me *smiles slightly and goes back to his book*

bubby

Definitely slow, all day long. I have faith in Veks though!

Iniquitous

It is definitely giving me fits today, moreso than usual. There for awhile I would click to load a thread I owe a post in and then walk off to watch tv  because it would take up to 5 mins to load. Then it cleared up. Now it is slowing back down again to the point that it was taking 30 seconds just to get the font face drop down to show up.

I think Veks needs to have the hamsters rowing to speed up just a wee bit  O:)
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Haloriel

Poor hamsters.  They need a break too.  Maybe sub in some ferrets?   8-)  Guinea pigs might work also.  They will work for food. ~sage nod~  In all seriousness though, I'm sure it will work out fine.

Beguile's Mistress

Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once on a really old pickup truck.

"I may be slow but I'm ahead of you."

Samael

Quote from: Haruki on January 22, 2012, 05:25:59 PM
If I may ask, what is this Lazarus and where do I get it?

It sounds like it comes in handy for saving/caching what one types in forms in case the server lags or croaks.  Normally if you forward or back up or 'x' out of a page, all that 'temporary' content goes poof.

Lazarus
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Et comme des fleurs de glace, on grandit dans la nuit
La lumière nous efface, dans la noirceur on vit
Comme des fleurs de glace, on rêve et on reste unis
Des fleurs au cœur de l'insomnie

"Eisblume - Fleurs De Glace"

Oreo

It took over a minute for me to try and navigate away from this page. No idea how long it will take for the post to load.

She led me to safety in a forest of green, and showed my stale eyes some sights never seen.
She spins magic and moonlight in her meadows and streams, and seeks deep inside me,
and touches my dreams. - Harry Chapin

Beguile's Mistress

It's there now, Oreo.  A few minutes ago I tried loading a thread in the Finder's & Seekers and I ended up on a text screen that said the page couldn't load and that the server might be busy and like a dolt I forgot to screen print it. ::)

Saerrael

I had a 502 with a message from Veks in it.

Vekseid

We seem to have a number of problems.

1) Simply, we're out of RAM. We have been for awhile, but now Linux is trying to do lots of silly things like sending a full gig to swap and then panicking while every site I run basically dies as it tries to swap what it needs back in but can't because it really likes to keep about 10% free just in case because.

I -think- I've temporarily solved that issue by restarting most of our server's services (and then because of #3, reboot the server anyway : /). But this is just going to get worse, and more frequent, until we get more RAM. I'll be posting an announcement about this here and on Blue Moon soon.

2) Our I/O situation could be better on its own.
- I should have run the mailserver off the slave server from the beginning.
- I should never have used a RAID. At all.

Regrets : /

I could setup another server 'properly' fairly cheaply (a few hundred), though Elliquiy would go down a couple of times. An SSD would be a far more dramatic improvement, but they are expensive, and I don't want to go that route until Wheezy (next version of the Linux distro I use) is stable.

3) Something else is causing random load spikes and I honestly have no idea what. Some of it, I know, is measures I took to help correct the first issue, but that isn't all of it. There are about a thousand connections to E and other sites I run open at any one time, but the server can and has handled a hundred times that in load testing. File descriptors are a similar story. It's also possible that after 200 days other things happened causing Linux to slowly degrade. 200 days is a long time to be serving millions of pageviews and handling tens of millions of database calls per day.

I just rebooted the server. If that doesn't solve #3 here (besides what I know I caused to mitigate the above) we have Problems : /
- So far, so good, though. A few seemingly random mysterious issues no longer exist. Which is good, when it comes to computers >_> Rebooting still bad : / E-penis size is measured in server uptime.

4) We do occasionally top out CPU usage, but this is incidental and extremely momentary. With the AJAX chat off of E, we tend to peak at about 50% usage.
- Getting another CPU might allow us to turn the AJAX chat back on again, but with our RAM situation so fragile I'd like to get that taken care of, first - or alongside it.


Serephino

So I'm not the only one.  For about the last 2 hours getting anything to load has been iffy. 

Beguile's Mistress

*hugs Veks*  Thank you for all that work.  It, and you, are greatly appreciated.

Kye

At the moment at least things are vastly improved on my end.  Thank you, Veks. *hugs*

jouzinka

Likewise. Thank you, Vekseid. *hugs*
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undisclosedtoyou

Quote from: Beguile's Mistress on January 22, 2012, 09:43:47 PM
*hugs Veks*  Thank you for all that work.  It, and you, are greatly appreciated.

I have to agree with this.  We appreciate you, and all the work you've done!
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Oreo

*cookie huggles Veks* Much better here too.

*coughmumble* Sorry about the penis size thing. *scampers*

She led me to safety in a forest of green, and showed my stale eyes some sights never seen.
She spins magic and moonlight in her meadows and streams, and seeks deep inside me,
and touches my dreams. - Harry Chapin

Phoenixrisen

*Adds to the Veks hugs*

Thank you!
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Haloriel

Nice work Veks.  O:)  Can't imagine any of the technical stuff is easy even when there is the money to handle it.  Perhaps some sort of fund-raiser could be worked out to supply the money for an SSD?  Maybe work it in with a writing contest - or some such?  I dunno.  I'm just tossing about thoughts in my head.

Caeli

Things seem to be working much, much better now.

Thanks for all of your hard work, Veks. You do such an enormous amount of work around here, I only wish I could do more to give back.
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Serephino

Yes, much better now :-)   Another fundraiser might be a good idea.  I may even be able to make another donation. 

Nadir

Thanks so much Veks. Whatever you did, all lag for me has vanished

bubby

O_o   Everything I just read that you posted made my brain hurt Veks....but things are working and I like that! You rawk as always! *Hugs up!*

jouzinka

Not sure about anyone else... but things seem to be back to glitches for me. :-\ Not so often or so long, but definitely there are delays in loading pages and deteriorating.
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DarklingAlice

I've been running at pretty normal speed this evening,  a marked improvement from yesterday.

It might be best to do a fundraiser even before Wheezy is stable so that the money would be on hand for an SSD, and on hand in case there is a crisis point before that.
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Vekseid

Could people post exactly what times this lag happens and when?

sar reports high-ish iowait around 3:05, 4:35, and 5:25 PM CST (the last would correspond to Saerra and LunarSage's posts).

I'm less specifically concerned if reports of lag match up with times when the system tells me it's struggling, as opposed to slowness coming out of nowhere.

Saerrael

Quote from: Vekseid on January 23, 2012, 08:03:07 PM
Could people post exactly what times this lag happens and when?

sar reports high-ish iowait around 3:05, 4:35, and 5:25 PM CST (the last would correspond to Saerra and LunarSage's posts).

I'm less specifically concerned if reports of lag match up with times when the system tells me it's struggling, as opposed to slowness coming out of nowhere.

I try to post exactly when it happens *smiles* All's fine here again, by the way.
Also will try to restrain from posting here next time I experience lag when I see a post has been recently made about it.

Vekseid

Go ahead and post, sometimes it might be some middle-ISP's connection between them and E.

Saerrael


jouzinka

Quote from: Vekseid on January 23, 2012, 08:03:07 PM
Could people post exactly what times this lag happens and when?

sar reports high-ish iowait around 3:05, 4:35, and 5:25 PM CST (the last would correspond to Saerra and LunarSage's posts).

I'm less specifically concerned if reports of lag match up with times when the system tells me it's struggling, as opposed to slowness coming out of nowhere.
I'll note that and will try to post when it happens. ;)
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Caeli

Elliquiy seems to be running a bit slower than usual, but not in a way that greatly impacts my browsing. It's gotten to the point where it is noticeable, though. (That was in the last few minutes.)

It seems to be fine now, strangely.
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Serephino

*points to the time*  I'm having a little trouble getting pages to load. 

Caeli

I had a pretty severe slowdown in the past 10 minutes, when the pages were taking forever to load. It seems to have recovered, though.
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Izu

E has been running quite slow for me for the past one hour. It takes me up to 5-10 minutes to load a page. I don't know whether it's the beginning-of-the-month dump, or something else...

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jouzinka

I had a very slow "spike" about ten minutes ago, for about five minutes, but up until that point and from that point everything is running smoothly.
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Oreo

I left an IM for Veks with the time-stamp. Hopefully he'll be able to sort it out.

She led me to safety in a forest of green, and showed my stale eyes some sights never seen.
She spins magic and moonlight in her meadows and streams, and seeks deep inside me,
and touches my dreams. - Harry Chapin

Serephino

I couldn't get E to load for a whole 5 mins and it made me sad.

Saerrael

Thought I'd mention I just had a time out on Elliquiy (nowhere else). Was able to fix it by tossing cache and cookies, so it was probably just me in some or the other way, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

Samael

Not sure if this is part of the problem, but, opening PMs usually takes about 5 minutes for me, and it makes my browser slow down to crawl when it actually happens. I don't have the problems anywhere else, and E itself runs fast like always. Just thought it worth mentioning.
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La lumière nous efface, dans la noirceur on vit
Comme des fleurs de glace, on rêve et on reste unis
Des fleurs au cœur de l'insomnie

"Eisblume - Fleurs De Glace"

Vekseid


Samael

Quote from: Vekseid on February 23, 2012, 01:45:54 AM
...five minutes?
It probably just feels that way.
It's kind of weird.

I usually just open PM's in another tab, so I can continue to post on E itself instead of having to wait for it to open.

Actually, I should time it some time, although gonna go ahead and try what Saerra said to see if that helps.
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Et comme des fleurs de glace, on grandit dans la nuit
La lumière nous efface, dans la noirceur on vit
Comme des fleurs de glace, on rêve et on reste unis
Des fleurs au cœur de l'insomnie

"Eisblume - Fleurs De Glace"

Vekseid

It only takes about ten seconds for me.

If you have a lot of PMs, yes, it's going to take awhile. This isn't something I can fix in SMF, it's a function of how SMF - and most forum software - works when it gets into the multi-million PM range (though I have seen worse... MyBB : /).

The new CMS addresses this by changing how PMs work rather radically.

Samael

Sorry to only come back to this now.
I went through the browser, flushed my cookies and my cache, and after that the PMs open at normal speed again.

So, I guess it may actually have something to do with the browser (Firefox) and less with E.
At least it seems to hint towards that?
I don't really know much about browser architecture and how it interacts with websites, unfortunately, but I think it means it's on my end.

Thank you though for helping, Vek, I appreciate that :)
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Et comme des fleurs de glace, on grandit dans la nuit
La lumière nous efface, dans la noirceur on vit
Comme des fleurs de glace, on rêve et on reste unis
Des fleurs au cœur de l'insomnie

"Eisblume - Fleurs De Glace"

Saerrael

#106
E's running slow for me at the moment. I've cleaned with CCleaner and am not experiencing lag on other websites (that are happily running alongside of E right now).

I think it might have been my IP. I have no problems tonight.