Board Slowness

Odin · Post by **Odin** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:41 am

I don't know if it's just me, but I'm seeing all sorts of board slowness. It's not consistent - I managed to get here just fine, but posting/replying to threads takes forever, and I find that many times I need to perform an operation (clicking a link or button) twice before it actually happens. I'm not having similar problems at any other sites, so whether it's a local issue or server-side, it's definitely localized to OO.

Odin · Post by **Odin** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:44 am

FWIW, posting this thread went through seamlessly, but the last post I made in EBG required me to click the "quote" button, wait for a while while OO "thought about it," then finally get bored of waiting and click "quote" again, at which point the command went through fine. I typed in my message and clicked submit. More waiting. Finally I clicked out to the Board Index and went back into EBG to find that my post had indeed gone through, it just never brought me to the "view the post you just submitted or return to the previous forum" screen. That's pretty much what I've been seeing since yesterday (Saturday).

Post by **FishPants** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:57 pm

Odin wrote:FWIW, posting this thread went through seamlessly, but the last post I made in EBG required me to click the "quote" button, wait for a while while OO "thought about it," then finally get bored of waiting and click "quote" again, at which point the command went through fine. I typed in my message and clicked submit. More waiting. Finally I clicked out to the Board Index and went back into EBG to find that my post had indeed gone through, it just never brought me to the "view the post you just submitted or return to the previous forum" screen. That's pretty much what I've been seeing since yesterday (Saturday).

Logs are clean including the slow SQL query log. Anyone else having this problem?

Couldn't hurt to run a trace route to OO and see if there's a slow hop along the way... Sounds like Internet pathing.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:01 pm

no problems here and I'm surfing on a Touchpad.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:20 pm

I'm not having the same experience as Odin.

Odin · Post by **Odin** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:27 pm

It seems to have corrected itself now. I haven't had a problem in a couple of days.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:33 am

Is the forum lagging and timing out for other people or just me? I'm not having problems with other sites as far as I can tell.

Post by **FishPants** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:16 pm

LordMortis wrote:Is the forum lagging and timing out for other people or just me? I'm not having problems with other sites as far as I can tell.

I'm clipping along at a nice speed.. But then again maybe I'm biased

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:55 pm

Responding well for me.

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 9:50 pm

Boards are really, really slow right now for me. My traceroute is clear, and everywhere else on the internet is responsive, so it's something with OO.

Baroquen · Post by **Baroquen** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:38 pm

Getting some slow loads here too. However, not consistently. Some pages come up fine, while others were noticeably slow.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:46 pm

Kind of sluggish for me too from the phone

Epic 4g/Tapatalk

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 11:49 pm

I posted in the update thread ya know...I thought it was all ok again but i seem to have a small hitch still on loading the threads. Sometimes it wont load them fully still and I have to refresh and wait and it will.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:41 am

I think it was some backups that FP was doing. Should be all good now.

Rip

Kelric · Post by **Kelric** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:21 am

Still experiencing slowness.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:13 am

Faster than last night, but still slow here as well.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:37 am

Very bad again for me...has been all night.Was better earlier.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:07 am

SssssLllllOoooo....................................................Wwww.

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:33 am

Having the same issues here.

Kyosho · Post by **Kyosho** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:45 am

Yes, very slow. When loading it seems to start and stop. When it's working it loads at 6KB/s.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:07 am

It took me three tries just to log in this morning.

Post by **FishPants** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:37 am

Ticket open, related to networking outside of the box.

Post by **FishPants** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:56 am

All should be well now it would seem. Keeping an eye on it.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:38 pm

FishPants wrote:Yep that was the backup.. Scheduled now for Sunday mornings at 230am eastern time (for the full), daily incrementals will happen as well at 2am eastern.

Any chance of tweaking this for the west coast gamers? Maybe Full on Monday mornings at 3:30 est (depending on how long they take), and incrementals daily at the same time?

Epic 4g/Tapatalk

Post by **FishPants** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:06 pm

Pyperkub wrote:
FishPants wrote:Yep that was the backup.. Scheduled now for Sunday mornings at 230am eastern time (for the full), daily incrementals will happen as well at 2am eastern.
Any chance of tweaking this for the west coast gamers? Maybe Full on Monday mornings at 3:30 est (depending on how long they take), and incrementals daily at the same time?

Epic 4g/Tapatalk

Last time I checked awstats it showed that as the slowest time. Keep in mind the full backup only takes 6 minutes to dump (when it locks the tables); the rest of the time it's just compressing the file.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:09 pm

FishPants wrote:
Pyperkub wrote:
FishPants wrote:Yep that was the backup.. Scheduled now for Sunday mornings at 230am eastern time (for the full), daily incrementals will happen as well at 2am eastern.
Any chance of tweaking this for the west coast gamers? Maybe Full on Monday mornings at 3:30 est (depending on how long they take), and incrementals daily at the same time?

Epic 4g/Tapatalk
Last time I checked awstats it showed that as the slowest time. Keep in mind the full backup only takes 6 minutes to dump (when it locks the tables); the rest of the time it's just compressing the file.

Roger, it was just really sluggish last night after my Amnesia session. I guess kelric isn't posting after late night partying on Saturdays anymore

Epic 4g/Tapatalk

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:15 pm

I've been getting slow connection time outs for the last two days. No sweat off my nuts but I thought it might be good to report as an FYI.

Post by **FishPants** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:36 pm

Hrmm and here I thought it was snappier then it had ever been to me the last couple of days. Maybe my Canadian bandwidth is soiling your pipes?

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:19 pm

FishPants wrote:Hrmm and here I thought it was snappier then it had ever been to me the last couple of days. Maybe my Canadian bandwidth is soiling your pipes?

It's snappy as it's ever been right now and is most of the time. If it's my pipes then it's my pipe's routing... sometimes... as they get to everywhere else (that I go) fine enough. Again, no sweat. Just an observation.

(Will remember to route if/when it happens again)

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:02 pm

The slow down happened another couple of times this afternoon. While the latency wasn't listed as bad (60ms) Asterisks started popping up around 10ge1-1.jax01.volumedrive.com [69.31.135.30] which is the last listed hop from me to OO.

Enough · Post by **Enough** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:04 pm

Was getting massive slow-ups until about ten minutes ago. Things seem fast for the moment.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:07 pm

Ping is coming back at 5-600ms. at the moment.

10ge1-1.jax01.volumedrive.com (69.31.135.30) seems to be the culprit, last hop before I get to the site.

Post by **FishPants** » Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:28 pm

They are looking into it, all customers are affected.

Sarkus · Post by **Sarkus** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:02 am

The board loads fine and navigates around relatively quickly, but I'm having delays when I try to respond to a post and even longer delays when I try and post the new response. As in minutes of delays in the latter case. This has been going on for awhile now, though the length of time varies a bit time to time. And its not my 'net connection, because while I'm waiting I can open another tab and surf around with no issues. I'm pretty sure the new post is being submitted correctly, but my browser isn't being told that so it sits there waiting to be told the posting has been completed. In almost all cases when I've given up and loaded back into the board the new post was up.

Post by **FishPants** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:41 am

Sarkus wrote:The board loads fine and navigates around relatively quickly, but I'm having delays when I try to respond to a post and even longer delays when I try and post the new response. As in minutes of delays in the latter case. This has been going on for awhile now, though the length of time varies a bit time to time. And its not my 'net connection, because while I'm waiting I can open another tab and surf around with no issues. I'm pretty sure the new post is being submitted correctly, but my browser isn't being told that so it sits there waiting to be told the posting has been completed. In almost all cases when I've given up and loaded back into the board the new post was up.

Do a traceroute to the board address and let me know if you see a slowdown somewhere along the lines? I'm not seeing that behaviour on this end, and wondering if there isn't a network burp somewhere between you and the Florida data center.

Post by **FishPants** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:42 am

Sarkus wrote:The board loads fine and navigates around relatively quickly, but I'm having delays when I try to respond to a post and even longer delays when I try and post the new response. As in minutes of delays in the latter case. This has been going on for awhile now, though the length of time varies a bit time to time. And its not my 'net connection, because while I'm waiting I can open another tab and surf around with no issues. I'm pretty sure the new post is being submitted correctly, but my browser isn't being told that so it sits there waiting to be told the posting has been completed. In almost all cases when I've given up and loaded back into the board the new post was up.

I just noticed what time you posted this at, which is pretty much exactly when the cron scripts run to backup the database nightly (and when the script runs, it will behave exactly like that as it locks the database tables as it dumps). Does it do it in the middle of the day or only around 2am eastern?

Sarkus · Post by **Sarkus** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 4:55 am

FishPants wrote:
Sarkus wrote:The board loads fine and navigates around relatively quickly, but I'm having delays when I try to respond to a post and even longer delays when I try and post the new response. As in minutes of delays in the latter case. This has been going on for awhile now, though the length of time varies a bit time to time. And its not my 'net connection, because while I'm waiting I can open another tab and surf around with no issues. I'm pretty sure the new post is being submitted correctly, but my browser isn't being told that so it sits there waiting to be told the posting has been completed. In almost all cases when I've given up and loaded back into the board the new post was up.
I just noticed what time you posted this at, which is pretty much exactly when the cron scripts run to backup the database nightly (and when the script runs, it will behave exactly like that as it locks the database tables as it dumps). Does it do it in the middle of the day or only around 2am eastern?

It was slow to load into creating this post, so its not the 2AM eastern thing.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 5:51 am

Been running great for me for a week. Thank you for your work.

Post by **FishPants** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:28 am

Sarkus wrote:
FishPants wrote:
Sarkus wrote:The board loads fine and navigates around relatively quickly, but I'm having delays when I try to respond to a post and even longer delays when I try and post the new response. As in minutes of delays in the latter case. This has been going on for awhile now, though the length of time varies a bit time to time. And its not my 'net connection, because while I'm waiting I can open another tab and surf around with no issues. I'm pretty sure the new post is being submitted correctly, but my browser isn't being told that so it sits there waiting to be told the posting has been completed. In almost all cases when I've given up and loaded back into the board the new post was up.
I just noticed what time you posted this at, which is pretty much exactly when the cron scripts run to backup the database nightly (and when the script runs, it will behave exactly like that as it locks the database tables as it dumps). Does it do it in the middle of the day or only around 2am eastern?
It was slow to load into creating this post, so its not the 2AM eastern thing.

Post or PM a traceroute for me? (If you post it, remove/mask the first set(s) of IPs in the list so you don't drop your pants internet style).

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:20 am

Daehawk wrote: Thank you for your work.

First, this. Thanks to all of those who keep this place going!

Currently getting very spotty performance. Sometimes pages time out and won't load, sometimes they just load very, very slowly. And in between those times, it can be lightning-fast, possibly faster than I've ever seen it. I've never experienced this before. Maybe it was just a hickup, or doing a backup. Possibly I'm posting this too soon, as it's been going on for only about 20 minutes. Seems fine at the moment; lightning-fast!