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It’s taking so long trying to load that at times is won’t load with the error message -
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I can get on after a number of tries but its slow, half loads then hangs at times, some times it will work.
Thrn when you go to save a reply, you get this time after time
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Then hopefully, after three or four times it will save.
I usually log on a couple of times every day, and have a quick look. Lately the forum has been slow, sometimes very slow.
Last night and this morning it has been as fast as I can remember it ever running.
Thanks for the top effort.
slow here today 25/6 so far.
Should get better as caches repopulate.
As Steven said in his earlier post. "We have a few other improvements that will be progressively rolled out over the next week."
Thanks for the hard work on this to all who are doing it on our behalf.
Page speeds this morning, on Internode/TPG network are very much improved!
EDIT: 15.49 AEST and it's gone slow again - page load time 15s or greater. No complaints of course, we're all non-paying spectators, so are glad the place exists in the first place - just wanting to provide feedback in case it's useful :)
Someone might be able to explain this to me as I'm not a techno guru.
Below is a clip of my Task Manager taken when I clicked on a thread. After clicking there was a pause of maybe 5 seconds before there was any movement on the TM graph. After this time the "send" signal and "Receive" signal appeared on the screen. Is that a problem with my computer or this site as other sites seem to react straight away.
Apart from that this site seems to be working well after the fixes.
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@Dallas, no it's not your computer, it's the site. That seems to have been a common thread on some of these reports that there's a pause before action.
G'day Dallas
Are you still having the same problem or has it cleared and running fast again for you.
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MM has it come good for you again since the slowdown at: 15.49 AEST yestertday
Cheers - Neil :U
FWIW we still have a bit of work to do over the next week or so.
Even though it's running like greased lightening for me right now.
2 seconds to post first line of this and 1 second to edit this post to load after hitting edit then back to 5 seconds to save edited page.
Saving an edit is usually slower than some other things.
Bugger last edit change took almost 15 sec. It's still all over the place.
2 seconds to edit out sig from above and 1 sec to open this new text box
Yes you're right. It seems to be random timing as sometimes there is hardly any delay and other times it takes ages.
ps. this post took about 30 seconds to upload
Block the bots! :)
So.... Been 4 days since last post.
Any more problems with the speed.
95% of the time it's really good. Sometimes when posting a reply it hangs up for some time but eventually goes. I have had the message that it has timed out or something along those lines and I need to click on the button that allows more time and then the post goes after a while.
Most of time okay but still way too often very slow to load, sorry.
80% of the time it has been loading quickly, other 20% it hangs, so in general, a massive improvement from a week ago
I concur, there's flashes of brilliance along with some ~15sec pauses. But the brilliance seems way better than the forum has been in a while
Was r e a l l l y slow to start with for me last night, but sped up quite a lot by about 2 am. This morning (1/7/20) it's quite fast (07:45).
Maybe Mr. Xi's Black Hats have gone to bed?!?
Similar experience to above posters - Mainly good
Thanks guys
Please keep us informed.
Because it's up and down it's not easy to find the problem. And no it's not the search bots. The forums have been under attack with many thousands of hits from suspect IP over the last month or so, all of which have been being blocked instantly over the last week after a clean-up of the 4 biggest ones which accounted for over 1/2 million hits in 20 days. Some of these were attached to long time members IP addresses.
We need as much feedback as possible to help us keep on top of the problem.
- when it slows down, eg: Times between 7:30am - 8:05am or 3:20pm to 3:40pm etc
- length of time and what you were doing, eg: editing a post, loading the forum, reporting a post, submitting reply, etc
- Any message you might get, eg: Timed out. or other.
Any and all info will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers - Neil :U
Reply to this thread above.
2:51pm 1 July 20
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I'll add some data - but it will just show the absence of trends when looking at my workflow.
I have a browser tab open to the forum. Randomly along the day I might get a moment to look - I'll use the " new posts" link from the menu to get a list of updated threads. The query takes usually 3-5 seconds to return; I'll time a few so the next time I see an outlier to that I have some metrics, but that usually is pretty constant. Assuming I get time to go further, I'll click each link, usually bottom up, to go to the next unread post - when doing that is when I often see the most noticeable pause, when it's trying to load the actual thread. Sometimes it's loaded in the usual 5-6 secs, but others it's 20+.
this morning things were working fine - and then one time at around 8:57am (SYD) a thread opened quite slowly, in the order of 15-20 secs. After reading another thread or two (normal speed) going back into the thread that was slow was fine, so it's not something in the thread its the server response that went slow.
Tried to open about half hour or so ago. Finished up going to Metalwork Forums and then used it’s link to open WWF which seemed much quicker. No times as have only just found the above request.
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8:05pm Melbourne time
46 seconds to load this thread, 8 seconds to get the reply box, 59 seconds to post this reply (including the "are you sure you want to leave this page" message from Chrome at 26 seconds)
new report from me. 8:36pm the thread https://www.woodworkforums.com/f163/...38#post2195728 from my unread list started taking a long time to open. When that happened I opened a new tab and tried to open this thread, which also took a long time. 8:37 ticked over on my PC. All up probably 40 secs to load these two pages, so it was very localised to the server at that point.
TBH, this whole slow thing is getting a bit old. I just got;
In attempting to get to this point, I have clicked on every single bookmarked page that I have, 25+, none of them missed a beat. I still had to wait for this site.Quote:
Request Timeout
This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase 'Connection Timeout'.
More work done this evening from 7:30pm - 7:48pm.
Lets know if it's any better.
Not lightening fast but not far off. Way, way better than it had been, at least it is for me and I've done a ship load of speed tests over the last week.
In a relative comparison to recent speeds, todays speed is lightening fast.
Hi there
That timeout would have been caused by me backing up the database and then making a bunch of major changes to how it's configured. There would have been several periods where it was timing out for 10-20 minutes at a time. There is still some more to do over the next few days, but i'm hopeful we won't be seeing the table locking issues that have plauged the site quite badly for the last couple of weeks.
We're monitoring things today with some more minor tweaks likely to follow tonight.
thanks
Certainly be running well over the last day or so.
Yes, a lot more stable :2tsup:
Tues 7th, 9:47pm thru to 9:53 at least, things were back to treacle. Wonder if it was Stephen doing more maintenance (and :2tsup: if you were) otherwise the lemmings fell off the cliff again
Just as some feedback, around 17:15 on 9th July, around 20 seconds to open the notifications page. Other pages a little faster, perhaps 10-15 seconds.
i had several pages open slow ~4:20-4:30pm today 9th.
Yes, same here around 4:00pm opening the Market Place and Boxmaking was very slow up to nearly 60 secs. Seems fine now.
Running pretty fast for me 9:15 to 9:32pm Thursday