Loading speeds

[Whitemoor]

Hi all

The loading speeds on this forum have been dead slow for at of late, today is the worst, iv had to wait 5-10 secs for each page to load, and im on 2meg broardband!!!!!!!!

Is anyone else having any probs?

Thanks
Rob

(apologies if this is posted in wrong area)

[WSR2005]

Me too, about 10 seconds between each page (although I am on dial-up). I think this has been or is a busy day on the forums so the servers running slower.

[djhedge]

ditto - im on broadband

[depman2004]

Me too about 5-7 seconds 2 meg Broadband

[martinhodgson]

Moved to site related

Has been a little slow for me, too, this afternoon.

[chrisiveson]

Same here, on broadband.

[45002]

Same here, on broadband.

May One Reason be Because there a Load of Folk log in ?

MARTIN on BB

[Whitemoor]

thanks for moving this, Mr hodgson

Good job it aint just me and AOL, i have started to notice a difference now, about 3-5 secs loading, which is just about tolerable

[thomascairns]

It's been a bit slow for me, here's a tracert from 18:35 today:

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C:\Documents and Settings\Tom>tracert forums.uktrainsim.com

Tracing route to forums.uktrainsim.com [198.65.117.54]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.0.1
  2     7 ms     9 ms    10 ms  10.115.240.1
  3    28 ms     7 ms     6 ms  pool-t2cam1-a-ge95.inet.ntl.com [80.5.168.13]
  4    11 ms     7 ms     9 ms  sot3-t2core-a-ge-wan63.inet.ntl.com [80.4.225.9]

  5    11 ms    11 ms    27 ms  win-bb-a-so-020-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.49]
  6    17 ms    24 ms    19 ms  217.118.238.157
  7    41 ms    17 ms    19 ms  sl-bb21-par-9-0.sprintlink.net [217.118.224.46]

  8    17 ms    17 ms    20 ms  sl-bb22-lon-4-0.sprintlink.net [213.206.129.141]

  9    18 ms    18 ms    19 ms  213.206.131.86
 10    95 ms    94 ms    95 ms  p16-0-1-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
5.91]
 11   105 ms   104 ms   112 ms  p16-7-0-0.r02.stngva01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.167]
 12   105 ms   132 ms   106 ms  mg-2.c00.stngva01.us.da.verio.net [129.250.26.20
2]
 13   104 ms   103 ms   105 ms  161.58.157.77
 14   105 ms   113 ms   111 ms  brunel2.atomic-systems.com [198.65.117.54]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Tom>

...and now a ping...

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Pinging forums.uktrainsim.com [198.65.117.54] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 198.65.117.54: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=112
Reply from 198.65.117.54: bytes=32 time=106ms TTL=112
Reply from 198.65.117.54: bytes=32 time=117ms TTL=112
Reply from 198.65.117.54: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=112

Ping statistics for 198.65.117.54:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 104ms, Maximum = 117ms, Average = 109ms

Nothing out of the ordinary ping for the US!

[NeutronIC]

Still slow for you? Anyone it's working well for? Only taking 2-3 seconds at most for most pages to load here.

Matt.

[Whitemoor]

still slower than what im used to on here

[NeutronIC]

Yes must admit sometimes the pages do pause for longer than i'd like.

I'll take a look.

Matt.

[NeutronIC]

Hmm, sitting watching the machines i'm seeing an average of about 20% load across the two hyperthreaded CPU's on each machine - the web server perhaps slightly lower around 15%.

I wonder if it's a locking problem as lots of people are posting and I believe the default configuration of phpBB has the tables as 'MyISAM' - which prevents any access to a table if anyone is writing to it.

I'll modify my local install on my desktop to use Inno (which has row locking rather than table locking) and see if that works ok, if it does i'll modify the server and we'll see how it fairs.

Matt.

[thomascairns]

Matt, if you go and have a look somewhere on phpBB.com, there's a mod on there which makes phpBB process things a lot more quickly than normal.

[NeutronIC]

Ah yes, well worth a look at the same time, though that seems to reduce CPU load and there really isn't an issue there. Can't hurt however.

Matt.