Hello,

The last days I visit the forum, I get sometimes very long waiting times (upto 2 min.).
Sometimes I get a blank screen afther the waiting time.
Are other members also experiencing the same ?

Greetings,
Bertus

 

Hi bertus,

Are you talking about page loading times?

Personally I do not have any page loading problems, I would be interested in hearing if others are having issues.

Dave

 

Hello,

It says sometimes a very long time "waiting for www.allaboutcircuits.com" in the status line of the browser.
Afther the waiting time I get the page or even a blank page.
It is not always so slow but sometimes as I said.

Greetings,
Bertus

 

Hello,

It says sometimes a very long time "waiting for www.allaboutcircuits.com" in the status line of the browser.
Afther the waiting time I get the page or even a blank page.
It is not always so slow but sometimes as I said.

Greetings,
Bertus

For the record could you list up your browser and version. I take it you are having no issues at other sites? Also have you tried clearing cookies for AAC?

My set up is IE7 and Opera 9.63 on Vista and I am not having issues at this time.

I would be interested in seeing if others are having issues, and we can investigate further if need be.

Dave

 

Hello,

I am using firefox 3.0.6. on my SUSE linux system.
I will have a look at the cookies.

Greetings,
Bertus

 

Ever since I joined I have found substantial speed variations, depending upon the time of day.

Sometimes pages time out for me instead of loading. And somethimes things can go really smoothly for weeks.

I find the same effect with other forums, so it is not unique to AAC.

I log on on the nearest available machine, from Linux through W98 to Vista but mostly the internet dedicated machine is W2000 with IE6. I see no real difference between machines, some wireless some ethernet.

The DSL is unlimited maximum available and as I watch the activity lights I often see my end of the connection waiting for a reply from the blue yonder out there.

 

Hi all,

I'd certainly like to hear about other folk's loading times for the forum/site. We have had a huge increase in traffic in '09, and I had thought the server was handling it well. If a lot of people are experiencing a slowdown, I will get to tweaking the server settings, add more RAM, etc.

 

I generally have superb response time from the AAC server, even though it's across the pond from me.

Occasionally, I do get time-outs, and have lost more than a few replies. I blame it on the routers in the net; there are generally around 14 hops between myself and the AAC server in a most bizzarre series of loops on this side of the pond.

 

Hello,

I have even 16 hops if I do a traceroute:

traceroute to forum.allaboutcircuits.com (208.101.14.162), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 0.629 ms 0.682 ms 0.638 ms
2 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 2.320 ms 2.258 ms 1.433 ms
3 82-169-7-254.ip.telfort.nl (82.169.7.254) 19.037 ms 20.625 ms 19.133 ms
4 * * *
5 ae2.25-ams20.ip.tiscali.net (77.67.64.1) 20.245 ms 20.124 ms 18.864 ms
6 xe-3-0-0.lon10.ip.tiscali.net (89.149.186.189) 46.413 ms xe-5-1-0.lon10.ip.tiscali.net (89.149.187.25) 25.417 ms 24.594 ms
7 77.67.66.190 (77.67.66.190) 26.578 ms 28.537 ms 28.584 ms
8 msr1-gig-0-8-0-4.uk1.savvis.net (204.70.202.33) 39.196 ms 38.328 ms 40.420 ms
9 cr2-tengig-0-7-2-0.londonuk1.savvis.net (204.70.195.133) 27.750 ms 27.946 ms 28.254 ms
10 * * *
11 dpr1-ge-4-0-0.dallasequinix.savvis.net (204.70.196.30) 151.267 ms 152.412 ms 151.265 ms
12 er1-te-2-1.dallasequinix.savvis.net (204.70.204.145) 154.789 ms 155.910 ms 154.900 ms
13 te1-1.cer02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com (208.175.175.10) 143.153 ms 142.168 ms 141.356 ms
14 po2.dar02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com (66.228.118.207) 142.551 ms 142.298 ms 142.083 ms
15 * * *
16 supcast.com (208.101.14.162) 142.617 ms 142.083 ms 141.979 ms

So, perhaps the router are messing up sometimes as SgtWookie said.

Greetings,
Bertus

PS I will try to repeat it when the line is slow.

 

Hello,

I have tried a traceroute during the "long waiting time" and that works normal.
The server responds also on it.

Greetings,
Bertus

 

I too have experienced loading problems.... takes too much time sometimes especially when loading the Forums page.

 

Hello,

I noticed that the "long waiting times" occur more between 10.00 AM and 10.30 AM (GMT +1).
Has it to do with planned tasks on the server (backups) ?

Greetings,
Bertus

 

10.00 AM and 10.30 AM (GMT +1).

Yes a hiatus seems to happen most days (today for instance) at this timeslot. I assume that you are changing over servers around then and just come back later.

 

might be too much members' activity during the specified time!

 

Hello,

It is not the number of users online.
It was "only" 300 at that moment.
I have seen numbers upto almost 700 without problems.

Greetings,
Bertus

 

Hello,

It is not the number of users online.
It was "only" 300 at that moment.
I have seen numbers upto almost 700 without problems.

Greetings,
Bertus

then it must be server loading problem or system changeover processes during data Xmission.

 

Hello,

I noticed again that the "long waiting times" occur more between 10.00 AM and 10.30 AM (GMT +1).
Has it to do with planned tasks on the server (backups) ?
The number of users is about 350, so that is not the problem.

Greetings,
Bertus

 

Mine are 3:00AM to 4:00AM, the board actually dies for a short while (timeout).

I've always assumed backups.

 

Mine are 3:00AM to 4:00AM, the board actually dies for a short while (timeout).

I've always assumed backups.

Bill you're absolutely right. During that time is when the daily cron jobs are executed, which include database backups, etc. Since these processes utilize much of the server's resources, it causes the site itself to slow down.

 

Hello,

Are the cron jobs executed at the same time ?
Are there many cron jobs ?
Can they be spread over the day ?
Cron jobs can be executed at the time of day you want to spread the load on the machine.

Greetings,
Bertus