Slow Forum Responses

[Paratima]

I can get to the front page OK, but as soon as I drill down a level, on any thread, seems like it takes 30 seconds to a minute. Going up a level seems to be OK. Also, when posting a reply, sometimes I get a message about the admins not allowing posts faster than 30 seconds apart. I mean, I'm quick, but I'm not that quick! ;)

Edit: New news. Going down a level is also OK. What takes the time is going to the "first unread post" in any thread. Clicking on the little yellow arrow is what's slow. Any ideas?

[Bok]

I think there was some connectivity issues to servermatrix overnight. I had a shell open which timed out at some point in the last 6 hours.

Seems ok now, I'll see if I can find out what happened.

Bok :)

[Moogie]

Thank you Bok. It seems to be working just fine now.

[Paratima]

Umm, well, no it doesn't, unless it's just me. Still slow clicking on "go to first unread post" arrow. :eek:
Measured at 31 seconds for this thread. Again, just going down a level is near-instantaneous.

[Moogie]

Paratima...I'm not having that problem. ??????

[Bok]

Me neither :dunno:

Perhaps your DNS servers are struggling ?

What kind of response do you get with a ping ?

Bok

[Paratima]

C:\>ping www.free-dc.org

Pinging free-dc.org [69.56.191.138] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 69.56.191.138: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=48
Reply from 69.56.191.138: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=48
Reply from 69.56.191.138: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=48
Reply from 69.56.191.138: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 69.56.191.138:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 47ms, Average = 35ms
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I say again, anything I do on the forum is lightning-like EXCEPT hitting the little yellow down-arrow to get to the first unread response on a thread. :dunno:

Lemme just try something...

AHAH! Guess what? It's fine in IE. The slow response happens in Mozilla 1.7.

BTW, just in case you think I only bring bad news, the FAD stats got blown away again. :p

[Bok]

I get problems in the latest Firefox build on linux when not using local DNS, perhaps it's that.

Yeah, I know about FAD :)

I pull the stats from here (http://stats.findadrug.org.uk/stats.php?Team=14&Period=1&Order=Points)

and it's getting an error page at the moment....

Bok

[Paratima]

Always sumthin, huh? :rolleyes:

[Paratima]

Just in case you still have ANY interest in this, Bok, I tried it at work today, where I have FireFox installed. I forget the rev, but I think it's one level back from the latest. Anyway, it worked fine! Seems to be strictly a Mozilla problem. I work around it.

[IronBits]

/me hugs FireFox Browser :D

[Paratima]

:thumbs:

[Moogie]

Originally posted by IronBits
/me hugs FireFox Browser :D

I have never tried FireFox or Mozilla. Are they that much better than IE? Why?

[rshepard]

Are they that much better than IE? Why?

1. Built-in popup blocking
2. Tabbed browsing
3. Generally less "bloated" and quicker(esp. firefox)
4. Not vulnerable to the recent IE exploits
5. Not made by MS :D (OK, maybe we won't count that)

[Moogie]

Can you download these for free? Is there a trial version?

[rshepard]

yes, they are free

Get either one here (http://mozilla.org)

[Moogie]

Thanks...I'll check them out when I get home. I appreciate the help.

:)