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HelterSkelter

Sorry if this has been posted aready but boards seems extremely SLOW for the past couple of weeks...

The following is typical of the time to load pages..."Page generated in 12.99528 seconds with 11 queries"

John

It was snail-like for most of today but kind of back to normal for me now

Faith

I couldn't even get pages to load today and yesterday. They just kept timing out.

Endurance Man

Ye, running like ****e this side, generating in 12seconds with 14 queries.

PowerHouseDan

Yeah same here, being honest i no aload of people who just dont bother anymore, and me for one dont go on it half as much because its so slow...

Mojito

I think they upgraded the servers a while back to Sinclair ZX81's.

jonski

Page generated in 9.31051 seconds with 11 queries


felt slower

greglo23

Page generated in 2.39649 seconds with 12 queries. its speeded up no end for me today as in 45 secs to a min this morning. the front page is rendering really quick but when i click on a topic it still renders it in a different colour scheme from my default.

HelterSkelter

Yeah, looking a lot better today lads :-)

PowerHouseDan

indeed but there is only 480 ppl on

HelterSkelter wrote:

Yeah, looking a lot better today lads :-)

TempestSabre

Like treacle for me most of the time over the past year. You get times when its ok, but overall its one of the slowest sites I use. I'm using boards less and less because of it. When its slow its just a pain to use.

BendiBus

Page generated in 0.86480 seconds with 10 queries

Except it actually took a couple of minutes.

ecksor

When it takes you a couple of minutes, but it reports that it took less than a second, does your browser report "connecting to ... " or "waiting for ..." or anything like that at the bottom?

oscarBravo

"Waiting for boards.ie..." in Firefox.

Faith

I get both. It's usually "waiting for...", but sometimes it's "connecting to...".

Tar.Aldarion

Fastest page I have got all morning
Page generated in 12.43187 seconds with 13 queries.

It's usually "waiting for...", but sometimes it's "connecting to...".

Same as. The above however, did not have either.

v10

Yeah its crazy .. I agree with others that I use boards much less often now because its so slow.

But nobody seems to ever answer why is it so slow ?

Sparky

I used it on an o2 datacard for most of the day and it flew along.

When I got home to the DSL it got slow.

My mind boggled.

Moriarty

zod

any other website and I wouldn't be bothered.

but to be honest ..and quoting other people "my patience is dwindling"

ecksor

Nothing like a 91k jpeg to improve page load times.

Moriarty

I'm really not trying to be a smarmy bastard when I say this, but I doubt many will notice the marginal difference.

Stark

v10 wrote:

Yeah its crazy .. I agree with others that I use boards much less often now because its so slow.

But nobody seems to ever answer why is it so slow ?

Perhaps it's demotivated. Try making your posts more stimulating.

v10

Stark wrote:

Try making your posts more stimulating.

How about someone explaining WHY it's so slow ?

v10

ecksor wrote:

Nothing like a 91k jpeg to improve page load times.

Luckily thats hosted elsewhere

ecksor

So?

Endurance Man

Perhaps its time to start rethinking some of the idiotic forums that have been created? I forum for mustard, i mean come on, its all grand if you have the power/space/whateva runs this place; but with boards running this slow i bet most users would happily drop a handful of these forums for an increase in speed.

Stark

If a forum is idiotic then it's probably not very popular. If it's not very popular then it's hardly putting much stress on the servers.

Endurance Man

Stark wrote:

If a forum is idiotic then it's probably not very popular. If it's not very popular then it's hardly putting much stress on the servers.

Guess its debatable whats idiotic or not , take the thunderdome, its sucking the life outta this place and adding nothing.

EWheelChair

Everyone knows boards can be slow, alot of the time. These threads just aren't helpfull anymore.

Moriarty

Maybe if we close all of Rec, Soc and Tech the site will be much faster!

Cookies for everyone!

ressem

Those of you using firefox, have you tried setting the network.http.pipelining flag to true?

I haven't noticed pages stalling for 10 sec+ since, but might just be a coincidence.

View /set the flag by entering about:config in the address bar.

Stark

Oh you mean the setting that absolutely hammers websites?

oscarBravo

I thought it was just prefetching that did that. What's the problem with pipelining?

TempestSabre

I've noticed no difference between firefox and ie (6 or 7). Loading times are poor to dire, most of the time. The rest of the time its ok.

ressem

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/netlib/http/pipelining-faq.html
"Pipelining can also dramatically reduce the number of TCP/IP packets. With a typical MSS (maximum segment size) in the range of 536 to 1460 bytes, it is possible to pack several HTTP requests into one TCP/IP packet. Reducing the number of packets required to load a page benefits the internet as a whole, as fewer packets naturally reduces the burden on IP routers and networks."

It's off in mozilla/firefox by default, as a small number of old/embedded webservers might not follow the standard. But works with boards and does appear to be an improvement.

Red Alert

I have fasterfox set NOT to try and speedup boards - each page on boards is 'expensive' because of the number of database accesses that vB does. Be nice kids!