Site extremely slow?

[illflem]

Connecting to the main forums page and bringing up threads is fine, but switching in-between forums takes forever, I'm talking over two minutes. Any others experiencing this?











traceroute to 216. 235. 147. 117



1 130. 94. 244. 193 (130. 94. 244. 193) 0. 351 ms 0. 215 ms 0. 183 ms

2 ge-1-1-0. r01. bcrtfl01. us. bb. verio.net (129. 250. 28. 49) 0. 325 ms 0. 314 ms 0. 276 ms

3 p4-1-0-0. r00. atlnga03. us. bb. verio.net (129. 250. 4. 53) 17. 966 ms 18. 035 ms 18. 002 ms

4 ge-0-0-0. a00. atlnga03. us. ra. verio.net (129. 250. 26. 227) 18. 054 ms 18. 027 ms 18. 057 ms

5 pos4-2-0-0. a01. atlnga01. us. ce. verio.net (157. 238. 161. 170) 34. 428 ms 34. 825 ms 35. 410 ms

6 border4. ge2-0-bbnet1. acs. pnap.net (64. 94. 0. 9) 36. 863 ms 36. 262 ms 34. 403 ms

7 mariet-2. border4. acs. pnap.net (64. 94. 3. 98) 40. 424 ms 40. 292 ms 40. 154 ms

8 Router-5-MFN-Atl. capitalinternet.com (216. 235. 146. 246) 43. 541 ms 43. 043 ms 42. 846 ms

9 216. 235. 147. 117 (216. 235. 147. 117) 43. 001 ms 43. 734 ms 43. 688 ms

 

[willyslover]

YUP... Now add dial up to that [no dsl or cable available here ]

 

[Dkevdog]

I have been noticing it to be incredibly slow for the last couple weeks. I did the tracert thing, actually had it time out a couple of times. I vaguely understand what it does, but couldn't get it to copy so I could post the result.



Kev

 

[LSMITH]

Slow as can be here too. No tracert will stay up on this machine, so no help there.

 

[Crazy Horse]

I agree, this site has really slowed down. I'm on cable modem @ 1MB feed and like illflem said it's the inner pages that are extremly slow.

 

[illflem]

This has been going on for a few weeks for me also but never as bad as tonight. I've found that if I come back after prime time when there aren't as many users it works fine.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Creeeeeeeeping (5820Kbps registerd on Norton Speedcheck as we read this but the TDR hangs and creeps)

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Looking at the logs someone was trying to crash the server tonight. It hit a load of 3. 06 at 10:35 pm eastern time. We haven't been over 1. 8 since I took over. The good news is that they didn't crash it. Now I have to do more research to see what they were trying.

 

[radar doctor]

I agree

Here in Kansas we have only the 56K speed which is around 45 k tonight but i agree . The video on the fronts of the formats i'm sure use up a lot of time at our slow speeds Maybe better management of the Ads etc could help be a little faster. But i guess we should be happy that we can get it at all... Oo. Oo. Oo. Oo.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Turns out they were doing some were at the co-locating facility tonight which they didn't make us aware of - again. The site was unavailable from 12:30-12:45 am eastern time because they switch something at their end. I put in a trouble call when it went down and found out at that time that they were working on it. I'm going to call them tomorrow to find out in more detail what happened. It's possible that what they were doing affected the site performance tonight as well. They will be working at the facility overnight so it's possible there will be further problems. They are doing some upgrading on the connections between them and the backbone.



-Steve

 

[Bob Wagner]

TTT

Slow and easy again today out here

 

[illflem]

Me too. Gets half way though loading a page of posts then stops for about 20 seconds then starts again. Couldn't get on at all early this morning.

 

[TowPro]

Steve, its real slow here the last couple days. I am using 1. 5 mhz on Comcast. the slowest tracert responce was only 59ms which is good, but the server is responding slow. Most forums have taken over a minute to "post" my replies.

 

[Dkevdog]

Really bad out on the West Coast too. 4. 5MBS DSL line and the TDR is the slowest site. Not complaining, just letting you know. Is the problem in the co-location or is it elsewhere?



Maybe its all these new members :-laf ...



Kev

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

illflem - that is exactly what will happen when there are packets being dropped out on the net somewhere. Once you see part of a page on your screen all of the processing has happened on the TDR's server. The page is coming in multiple packets and what's happening is one of the packets was dropped along the way - until that packet goes through it won't continue loading and your PC has to re-request the packet to get it resent. A single tracert only tells you what happened with that one small packet - whereas a page is made up of many packets. Try running multiple tracert's and see what happens. I have had some slowdowns this week and every time I've checked it's been in the Chicago area on the backbone. Sometimes a tracert will go through no problem but the next one will timeout in the chicago area. The server load did get up to 1. 68 tonight but that still wouldn't cause a slowdown. In the last 3 days mysql has had 1736 slow queries (defined as taking longer than 10 seconds) or 20. 556 per hour (out of 102,320) or . 02% . There's no way to eliminate all slow queries but . 02% is extremely low.



We are looking at other co-location facilities but primarily because of a lack of communication from the current one when maintenance, etc is going to be done. We have had times when there were problems on their end and sometimes they were not as responsive as we would like - but right now doesn't seem to be one of those times.



-Steve

 

[bigkid59]

Well it is slow again here just South of Memphis. Seems like about 50% of the time I try to read the forums lately it is such a slow go that I just give up and go somewhere else. I hope something gets fixed soon.

 

[Dane]

Steve,

I'm seeing similar things as the others out in CA.



Sometimes when requesting new pages or submitting a response, it just slows to a crawl, then other times it pops like it should. I'm on a fast DSL connection, so the diffrerent speeds are very noticable. VERY intermittant problem on my side.

 

[Mactruck]

Same problem here on the east coast. I have DSL and it's been slow and/or connection can't be established.



Not being critical, (You folks are great ) Just being informative.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

HEH!



You oughta try it on a rural 26. 4 kbaud dialup line...



EVERYTHING on the Internet has been slow - TDR even slower - it really seems to be an internet-wide slowdown, and with 3 levels of virus protection, I'm seeing as many as a couple of dozen virus infected files rejected by my PC *per DAY!* If anything like this is happening to other users as well, I can image what the system load must be!

 

[JPope]

Echo what Gary is saying, except just got a 56K modem, so traveling 2X as fast as Gary