Server or Net Performance poor 7/20/2009

[TaxmanHog]

Wondering if others are experiencing delays in getting pages served from this site today?

Even at work, our systems were sluggish transferring data among the various data centers in Andover, Memphis, Ogden and elsewhere..:(

[gtrman66]

This site is very sluggish.

[gtrman66]

It is still SLOW today. Just this forum for me though.

[MYCAR47562]

it takes me 2 minutes to load every page

[Remphoto]

Slow here, too.

[Remphoto]

Slow here, too. The Libs are messing with us.:D

[nelson]

Yes I'm seeing the long delays also. My trace to the web host looks clean. No slowdown at the revolverforums.com site at an adjacent IP. Another site on the same server as this one, but comprised of just static pages, is behaving fine. So probably the database on our server is not answering quickly.

[Max]

There is no load on the server at all, it is a dns issue at some point. Or we have a bad file address. I think we have some external images which I don't use on any of the other sites and they may be part of the issue but the other sites on the same server are blistering fast.

[Max]

See if it's better now, I have a dns file that is giving me issues.

[MYCAR47562]

So So So Much Better, THANKS MAX

[nelson]

Def better. And it's true we do have some external images too - for instance, both of our GIF format header images (flag-bg2.gif and forum-political-trans.gif). If those ever give you trouble feel free to move them on over. Thanks Max.

[MYCAR47562]

i swear sometimes yall are talking latin when the programing talk starts up

[Max]

Nelson I need to grab the images and probably make them local just to see if it helps speed lookup time up but the current issue was my server, just wasn't a performance issue. The dns (domain name server) lookup file for some reason was having a tough time with this name. I restarted apache and that failed with a syntax error so I did a hard reboot which also failed. The server was and is fine but the program part of apache was failing. We loaded some old files and the issue appears resolved, now to go through the replaced files in the backup server and see if I can locate the culprit. May never happen again but better to take a few minutes and check. The server is nearing the end of it's life cycle and a backup is built and running but I need a day or two to do all the final controls and take the machine to the colo which I just haven't done.

Mycar it really isn't that tough, think of the server as any machine, the site as a program. Sometimes things happen or get loaded or requested that can cause the programs to error, that is what took place. Nelson and I are talking about some of the images, we simply are going to move them from a remote host to this machine so it can speed up request time. If you use multiple host the site can only be as fast as the slowest of the two. Hope that helps.

[MYCAR47562]

ok thanks max that makes since

[gtrman66]

WoooHooo it's back. Thanks Max!!!

[synseer]

Mycar....I'll break it down for you. Basically, the Heisenberg Compensators are inadvertently generating recurrive energy fluctuations that are building up in the dilithium matrix and thereby overloading the matter-antimatter containment fields. Max can fix the problem with level one diagnostic but that would take a significant amount of time and require the warp engines to be offline for a day or two. That clear enough for you? :rofl

[MYCAR47562]

you are deffinatly a trekky.... that was great

[TaxmanHog]

Thanks Max!, much better!!

[TaxmanHog]

I was beginning to wonder if the NK script kiddies were tinkering with the server, or something along those lines, suppose not, they continue to meddle the Govmnt affairs though

[Max]

Well things started dragging again so I changed the banner images to the local machine. Tell me if you can tell a difference.

[Jeb]

Mine seems fine now!

[nelson]

Yes, I think there is actually a significant difference. The header reload is instant now, feeling cached, whereas before it was not always, and sometimes introduced delay upon page flipping, for me anyway.

[gtrman66]

Wooo Hooo - thanks as always Max!