Why Is Loading So Slow Again?

[Exile]

What is going on? Things were peachy for weeks there, and now, the past three days or so, loading time has slowed to a snail's pace. It takes 5 minutes to load a thread! Traffic on the site is dwindling fast! There is almost nobody here. Can something be done? Is something broken?

Exile

[MarkG]

Re: Why Is Loading So Slow Again?

Originally posted by Exile
What is going on? Things were peachy for weeks there, and now, the past three days or so, loading time has slowed to a snail's pace. It takes 5 minutes to load a thread!

if i had a post like this, i would gladly try to tell you what's the problem in your case

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=430444#post430444

Traffic on the site is dwindling fast! There is almost nobody here.

this week we have 10,000 posts...

[Asher]

The problem is almost never ping times, Mark.
Even if it was a bandwidth issue, response time and sustained transfer rates are different beasts entirely.

I've pinged Apolyton during slow times and get ~130ms response. A-okay.

But it still takes like 200s to load the page.

[MarkG]

it's not just the ping that i was looking for from exile

after checking his profile in the admin area, i saw that he is using the default style and has avatars turned on....

[Asher]

Downloading avatars isn't the major problem (For me, at least).

Most of the waiting I'm staring at a white screen while it's still sending the beginning of the table information to me, the avatars load afterwards fine. It seems to me the problem is on the server's end trying to construct the page to send, and is under too much strain to do it immediately.

But I really have no idea, I can't see the server stats while it's slow.

All I know is users shouldn't have to switch off tons of the features to get decent speeds.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Asher
All I know is users shouldn't have to switch off tons of the features to get decent speeds.

in a perfect world, that is true

[Caesar the Great]

never takes me more than a minute on 56k..... soon i get dsl and.....

[Eli]

3 more days till I get the ADSL.

And even with this 33k modem, I dont know what you're complaining about. I didnt notice any problems in the last days.

[Asher]

Try going on at different times.
It's great for speed at one point, horrible an hour later.

Last night at 3AM my time pages were loading in under one second, right now it took 38 seconds to load this page, and it'll jump up to 60-80 before the end of the day.

[faded glory]

Yea right now I have the same problem. Its taking 51.24 seconds to load a page

I think it might just be AOL tho. 11500bps connect (roughly .1 kb a second

[Urban Ranger]

It seems to be a load problem. However, since the traceroutes and pings were relatively fast I suspect the disks to be the bottleneck.

[Shadowstrike]

Right now, everythings fine and dandy, but yesterday, I had to read something else while pages were loading...... *Pats new copy of "How Few Remain"*

[TCO]

It's painfully slow...and doing tracerts will not help since the problem is not in the network. (The slowdowns occur to multiple posters from different regions and other sites load fine with these posters.)

[Swissy]

You seem to forget that these past few weeks North American schools have been going into session. I find I have fairly speedy loads mornings and early afternoons. But, 3pm local time hits and the drag begins. So it could be all those school-aged Apolytoners have rushed home to get their daily fix, especially now that civ3 news is hot and heavy. I can imagine many of them come home to find a dozen or more posting notices in their inbox from threads they have subscribed to.

[Shadowstrike]

Probabyl true.... thank goodness I probably have another week before school starts again.