things slowing way down again this morning

[f0rk_b0mb]

FYI we may have a faulty SQL server which is being checked atm

OH and we have someone from Japan leeching the site to annoy us (over 500Gb a month)

Thanks for the heads up. Can't their IP be blocked like Javik said?

[neufuse Veteran]

slowing down again for me

[Arceles]

FYI we may have a faulty SQL server which is being checked atm

OH and we have someone from Japan leeching the site to annoy us (over 500Gb a month)

500GB a month... that's some connection for you :D

[neufuse Veteran]

My question is this.....why does the board run decent while you are viewing posts but runs so poorly when you are posting? Because that's when I see most of my slowness, when I am trying to post.

could be a bad index setup where it has to do a lot of page splits to put the new item into the index tree... SQL Server can be brought to its knees if indexes are setup wrong and your fill factors are planned wrong, work great for reads, but suck for writes... performance tuning at high load volumns can get tricky

it just took me 10 seconds to post that last comment... it's starting to slow down again

[Redmak Administrators]

Yeah, I have been checking that and will look at it again once our 2nd sql server is up and running again.

It has something to do with IPB because minispy updates fairly quick once you hit post, after that begins the wait

[Shane Nokes]

Redmak I was just coming in here to post that. It looks like the commit actually happens almost instantly as I can open a new window to that thread and my post is there, but it seems like nothing reports for a while to the initial request that it is completed.

[Redmak Administrators]

Yeah, IPB does a lot of things after the actual post. I already optimized it a bit but I guess it needs more work

[Chasethebase Veteran]

It seems to majorly speed up when Adblocking is enabled. Not up to standard levels but still a bit.

[Redmak Administrators]

Yeah the ads do slow down but we need them to survive ;)

No, it's really IPB. I'll look at the code again

[neufuse Veteran]

It seems to majorly speed up when Adblocking is enabled. Not up to standard levels but still a bit.

sure hope Ad's aren't causing the AJAX responses to slow down :laugh:

[Rappy Veteran]

it's still very slow for me

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

it's still very slow for me

Same here :/

[RadishTM Veteran]

No, it's really IPB. I'll look at the code again

Good good (Y)

[Growled Member]

Extra slow today.

[Nothing Here]

Over 1 minute to get here and 30secs to load this topic to post.

[+Warwagon MVC]

I think you guys need more hamsters!

[Nothing Here]

I think you guys need more hamsters!

You actually think I need more then 600 hamsters? Puhleese! That should be more then enough.

[Redmak Administrators]

This is to be expected with one sql server offline (even though it wasn't running at full speed to begin with)

[cork1958]

Site has gotten to the point of being unusable. Takes MINUTES to get a post to go through at times!!

Not bad this time. Only took 34 seconds to post!!

[Rappy Veteran]

It's certainly a bit better today, hope it sticks

[Detection]

I'm slowly losing menus at the top of the site, buttons have no names, this is in FF

In IE, it tells me IE refreshed Neowin because of compatibility but it never displays the site, just a white screen

[djdanster]

Anybody else found it unbearably slow at points this afternoon? Some pages just won't load at all.

[f0rk_b0mb]

It's slow

[Haggis Veteran]

yup agree

[Nothing Here]

Very slow now. Over a minute to post and load the site.