Apolyton Slowdown

[Asher]

Why has Apolyton been so slow off and on for the past couple weeks?

I'm getting 50% packetloss when I ping the server right now...

[MarkG]

there was 4 minute connectivity problem in our hosts' network earlier today cuasing some 80% packet loss. other than that, i havent noticed anything else today

[Solver]

Oh, haven't you, Markos? Odd... it can't be just me, a few other people did.

It took me 2 refreshes to get to replying to the thread. Losses with pinging. Pageload times are about 2 minutes! Of course, all other sites open as they normally do for me, so it's not me/ISP.

I've been online for straight 13 hours now, and it's a pain in the a*s to browse Apolyton today - I saw a few threads I really wanted to see, and other than that, browsing is tough. I noticed one period of relief some 7 hours ago, but other than that, it's very slow.

Page loading time for this page: 43 seconds. Ahh. The biggest I've seen today was nearing 3 minutes.

[Asher]

The past couple weeks there have been like 2 minute periods where Poly is totally inaccessable, and then inbetween there will be another 2 minute period with insanely high packetloss and slowness.

[MarkG]

can you post a traceroute?

[Solver]

Wow, getting down to 30 second per pageload. Might be better now.
Tracing route to apolyton.net [64.246.32.51]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 2 ms 1 ms 4 ms ASMODEUS-v1.ip-98-1.ipasaule.info [217.199.98.1]

3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms BAST-1.ip-96-41.ipasaule.info [217.199.96.41]
4 4 ms 3 ms 2 ms 195.13.173.157
5 2 ms 2 ms 3 ms 195.13.173.94
6 370 ms 310 ms 119 ms POS-5-1.GW7.STK3.ALTER.NET [146.188.52.101]
7 11 ms 11 ms 15 ms so-3-0-0.XR2.STK3.Alter.Net [146.188.5.37]
8 483 ms 629 ms * ge-1-0-0.TR2.STK2.Alter.Net [146.188.11.234]
9 794 ms * * so-5-0-0.IR1.DCA4.Alter.Net [146.188.5.245]
10 318 ms 357 ms 686 ms 0.so-1-0-0.IL1.DCA6.ALTER.NET [146.188.13.37]
11 467 ms 239 ms 123 ms 0.so-1-0-0.TL1.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.9.194]
12 287 ms 469 ms 459 ms 0.so-6-0-0.XL1.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.38.70]
13 773 ms 679 ms 629 ms POS6-0.BR4.DCA6.ALTER.NET [152.63.41.229]
14 450 ms 445 ms 589 ms p4-6-2-0.r01.mclnva02.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.9
.221]
15 643 ms 539 ms 339 ms p16-0-0-0.r00.atlnga03.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.
2.49]
16 141 ms 141 ms 209 ms ge-1-2-0.r01.atlnga03.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.5
.246]
17 552 ms 524 ms 629 ms p4-1-3-0.r00.hstntx01.us.bb.verio.net [129.250.2
.45]
18 170 ms 594 ms 468 ms ge-1-1-0.a03.hstntx01.us.ra.verio.net [129.250.3
0.216]
19 589 ms 720 ms 649 ms ge-0-0-0.a03.hstntx01.us.ce.verio.net [128.241.2
.102]
20 206 ms 195 ms 199 ms tayhou-223-37.ev1.net [207.218.223.37]
21 562 ms 649 ms 559 ms 64.246.32.51

Trace complete.
Here's mine:

[MarkG]

well your biggest times were far before apolyton, on alter.net

[Asher]

Apolyton's fine right now for me. As I said, it goes in bursts.

And I did run a traceroute when it wasn't responding, and I had 80-130ms ping on all sites before it began timing out on apolyton itself.

[Victor Galis]

I didn't notice anything either, but it must be just the times I'm on.

[Locutus]

I think the last time I had problems accessing the site was before the server move... (well, Apache was down last week or so but I was FTPing then so it didn't really affect me )

[Straybow]

I don't know if it is server-related or something else, but I am constantly having trouble with incomplete page loads. I use Netscape 4.79 at home, IE 5.x at work. Netscape seems worse, but I often have to reload before getting the whole page even with the recent version of IE.

Often hangs at a point where the dialogue says "93% of 167k" or some such. Posts with attachments seem to cause the most problems, but not necessarily the attachments themselves. Earlier this morning I tried literally 10 times to load <a href="http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53052&pagenumber=5">It' s a Mad Mad Scxn Game! p.5</a>, just to see if it would load once since I'd had problems yesterday afternoon.

[MarkG]

straybow, try using the light styles and cuting off avatars, signatures and attached images
that will definately speed you up

[Solver]

Currently it again goes perfectly for me, I loaded this page in a few seconds. Markos: I tried pinging Apolyton during period when I could hardly access at all yesterday, and got like 40% packet loss.

Thankfully it's OK now.

[Victor Galis]

What period was that?

edit: or rather why I haven't noticed the problem

[Solver]

For some strange reason, some people haven't noticed. Oh well, today it's again in bursts for me - from fast to average, but at least no longer too slow.