Boards - Slowness

Sully · 04-01-2007 5:32pm #1

Hey,

Im find Boards fairly slow today.. the page load time is very random. Sometimes it loads quick(sh) then slower, then in between. Its fairly unstable it seems and im getting a few "Database down" messages to. Earlier, I couldnt even get here - just got a blank page. Is it just me?

Getting to feedback forum:- Page generated in 24.21698 seconds with 13 queries

Opening "Post New Thread" in feedback:- Page generated in 10.15635 seconds with 10 queries

Submitting thread:- Page generated in 19.81913 seconds with 12 queries

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 04-01-2007 5:41pm

Sully04 wrote:

Earlier, I couldnt even get here - just got a blank page. Is it just me?

Yeah I got that earlier too.
Site is crawling along at the moment, but then I don't use boards much when it's slow... it feels like I'm kicking the server while it's down

aidan_walsh · 04-01-2007 5:41pm

Sully04 wrote:

Is it just me?

admin+statler wrote:

Page generated in 24.76402 seconds with 13 queries

Nope.

Haven't gotten the database errors, but I think boardsie did fall down for a short while earlier.

InFront · 04-01-2007 5:46pm

Boards and Bebo - my two favourite sites - are wonderful. But why are they both so blooming slow and unpredictable? Am I cursed? Are we all cursed?!!:eek:

User45701 · 04-01-2007 6:04pm

i had a good few posts to put up in BSG forum and ye it took AGES i was posting in several topics and it was very slow i just thought it was the internet speed in work

Ruu_Old · 04-01-2007 6:07pm

Not bad here, one database error earlier today.

Dis pageh.
admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 2.34027 seconds with 14 queries

Sully · 04-01-2007 6:11pm

Ruu wrote:

Not bad here, one database error earlier today.

Dis pageh.
admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 2.34027 seconds with 14 queries

For me:-

Page generated in 8.14259 seconds with 10 queries earlier (when I was reading).

To reply:-

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 0.22308 seconds with 14 queries

and back again:-

Page generated in 6.57878 seconds with 12 queries

mike65 · 04-01-2007 7:43pm

admin+beaker@boards.ie Page generated in 1.37548 seconds with 13 queries

no probs here. Opera 8.50

Mike.

DeVore · 04-01-2007 8:03pm

Its been quite variable today alright. I know we've been saying this for a long time but really, hang in there... servers are in our hands and on their way to to config/production. This will be a complete restructure, rebuild of the infrastructure going from 2 front servers and a single DB to something more along the lines of 7 front servers and a pair of clustered DB servers. Lets just say we hope you will see/feel where your subscriber yoyo's go to. ETA 1-2 weeks in my amateur opinion.

DeV.

DeVore · 04-01-2007 8:04pm

ps: expect next week to be slow as everyone hits work again and has 3 weeks of catching up to do

DeV.

Hagar · 04-01-2007 8:55pm

Those Malta photos are pretty impresssive. Nice work.

aidan_walsh · 04-01-2007 9:28pm

DeVore wrote:

Its been quite variable today alright. I know we've been saying this for a long time but really, hang in there... servers are in our hands and on their way to to config/production. This will be a complete restructure, rebuild of the infrastructure going from 2 front servers and a single DB to something more along the lines of 7 front servers and a pair of clustered DB servers. Lets just say we hope you will see/feel where your subscriber yoyo's go to. ETA 1-2 weeks in my amateur opinion.

DeV.

Sully · 04-01-2007 9:34pm

DeVore wrote:

Its been quite variable today alright. I know we've been saying this for a long time but really, hang in there... servers are in our hands and on their way to to config/production. This will be a complete restructure, rebuild of the infrastructure going from 2 front servers and a single DB to something more along the lines of 7 front servers and a pair of clustered DB servers. Lets just say we hope you will see/feel where your subscriber yoyo's go to. ETA 1-2 weeks in my amateur opinion.

DeV.

A lot faster then it was earlier on anyway! Thanks for the heads up.

Btw, out of curioisty - why are you guys using vBulletin and not Invision Power Board? Just curious.

Talliesin · 04-01-2007 10:09pm

Pretty sure Invision Power Board didn't exist when boards moved from UBB to VBB.

Anti · 04-01-2007 10:33pm

bout time my sub money bought something decent

I was getting fed up of the admins swanning off to foreign locations with models galore

DeVore · 04-01-2007 10:48pm

Its a hard life you know.... those supermodels are pure b*tchs!

DeV.

hiscan · 07-01-2007 12:57pm

DeVore wrote:

Its been quite variable today alright. I know we've been saying this for a long time but really, hang in there... servers are in our hands and on their way to to config/production. This will be a complete restructure, rebuild of the infrastructure going from 2 front servers and a single DB to something more along the lines of 7 front servers and a pair of clustered DB servers. Lets just say we hope you will see/feel where your subscriber yoyo's go to. ETA 1-2 weeks in my amateur opinion.

DeV.

does this mean that when i click on new posts i will getthe last 20 posts that were posted instead of me having to go through every forum individually to see new posts
when i first joined boards you got all the new posts by clicking new posts but when i do it now they come up an hour behind???

kaimera · 07-01-2007 4:52pm

Been poor the last few days.

Opera 9.1
XP Pro

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 3.97746 seconds with 13 queries

but it felt like at least a minute for the page to actually load.

challengemaster · 09-01-2007 2:29pm

admin+beaker@boards.ie Page generated in 31.24905 seconds with 11 queries

ahem..

kaimera · 09-01-2007 2:36pm

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 39.37967 seconds with 13 queries

This thread.

DJ_Spider · 09-01-2007 2:47pm

DeVore wrote:

Its been quite variable today alright. I know we've been saying this for a long time but really, hang in there... servers are in our hands and on their way to to config/production. This will be a complete restructure, rebuild of the infrastructure going from 2 front servers and a single DB to something more along the lines of 7 front servers and a pair of clustered DB servers. Lets just say we hope you will see/feel where your subscriber yoyo's go to. ETA 1-2 weeks in my amateur opinion.

What? Does that mean it's gonna be slower/faster/the same or what? Sorry I am an ex-blonde!

Moriarty · 09-01-2007 2:59pm

Yaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrr

when viewing this page:
admin+beaker@boards.ie Page generated in 14.39281 seconds with 13 queries

smashey · 09-01-2007 11:45pm

Very slow all day.

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 25.48864 seconds with 11 queries

Faith · 10-01-2007 12:16am

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 33.67444 seconds with 13 queries

In reality, it was longer, actually. That's very slow for 11.15 pm!

This page:

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 25.57546 seconds with 13 queries

miju · 10-01-2007 2:09am

tee heee everyones gone to bed so boards is nice and fast

happy days

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 0.8910 seconds with 11 queries

kaizersoze · 12-01-2007 1:14am

:eek: @00:05

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 41.71618 seconds with 14 queries

Bad for this time of night. That's the worst but every thread is hovering around 26 seconds.

elivsvonchiaing · 12-01-2007 1:37am

There is nothing more annoying than spending 20 mins to craft a reply (or original post) to find you have timed-out. You back-button - you have "nothing!".

Think this is a jelsoft issue though - can't think why you couldn't have these in an independent session that can query the live database where the original post has moved to.

Ps. Please don't delete this as I might need a nixer there.

PPs. If they already have this feature and you haven't enabled it - you cannot delete this post - it may be evidence :eek:

KoolKid · 12-01-2007 1:56am

I doubt its a jelsoft issue......

Why are we still on 3-5- BTW???

12-01-2007 6:45pm

Seems to be quite slow right about now, though the

"Page Generated in 0.42470 seconds with 14 queries"

...doesn't appear to suggest it. Other pages just won't stop loading. I'm using the "Reply to Thread" button for the first time since I learnt how to use quick reply.

mike65 · 12-01-2007 6:50pm

Try http://pie.boards.ie

Mike.

Faith · 12-01-2007 7:40pm

Pie is crawling along for me.

Pythia · 16-01-2007 7:13pm

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 40.06920 seconds with 11 queries

Agh!

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 16-01-2007 7:44pm

Pythia wrote:

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 40.06920 seconds with 11 queries

I had one of ~56 seconds earlier today... I think it was some kind of record, at least for me.

Stargal · 17-01-2007 4:34pm

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 52.09197 seconds with 13 queries

That's the slowest I've ever seen. Think I'll go back to posting in the middle of the night instead...

smashey · 17-01-2007 4:42pm

Slow all afternoon.

This page,

admin+beaker@boards.ie Page generated in 25.80814 seconds with 13 queries

Stephen · 18-01-2007 1:05am

Its brutal right now, midnight... Most pages taking 10-20 seconds to be generated and who knows how long more to actually appear.

Hagar · 18-01-2007 8:43am

I just turned off peer guardian and boards is rocketing along.
Are the people who are experiencing slowness using background software such as peer guardian that may be causing the problem?

/edited for spelling

Stephen · 18-01-2007 4:01pm

When I was using it last night there was nothing running on my machine besides the operating system and firefox

Faith · 18-01-2007 5:51pm

I got 3 database errors just trying to open this page. So far, that brings the total to about 10 in the past 45 minutes. It took me 10 minutes alone to get this page open. I don't think Boards has ever been slower for me than it has been in the past week or two.

Ruu_Old · 18-01-2007 5:54pm

^Same here, heap of database errroz and this page.

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 14.97964 seconds with 14 queries, has been worse earlier.

nesf · 18-01-2007 6:24pm

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 31.43079 seconds with 11 queries

Have been having constant timeouts over the past 3 days but I think that problem is seperate to boards?

rogue-entity · 19-01-2007 1:26pm

I nearly always get database errors, often when I am just trying to log in. I dont see the point, personally, in using more then one "front" server with its own copy of vB, the slowness seems to be that you have one, single, probably unoptimised, database on a seperate machine which is like tar when this site gets busy.

@Sully: IPB is a far better forum system, and it converts from vB so easily too, but it would take a lot of extra effort and work to convert boards to that system, to much so that any gains in features and performance may not offset it. For example, they would either have to change how boards is moderated (probably not a bad thing) or add that mod that grants those banning powers to forum and category moderators.

Endurance Man · 19-01-2007 2:55pm

Ok, this is doing my head in, HOW can clicking back take as long as entering a damn forum? :mad: I click on a thread (takes 30secs to open), read a post or two and then click back and wait another 30 seconds!! I have never experienced that on any other site, surely the page before has just been loaded and you are just going back to the same screen? Why does it take so long?

6th · 19-01-2007 3:16pm

Its actually beginning to make me angry .. and that dont happen much.

Endurance Man · 19-01-2007 3:33pm

http://thestudentroom.co.uk/index.php

This forum which i found recently has a couple hundred more members than boards and seems very busy. It seems to be using the same vBulletin thing that boards uses and yet it flys along at a grand pace?
Another funny thing is the size of the sigs on this site, they are HUGE! and yet dont seem to affect loading times for me?
One extra bonus is clicking back! doesnt reload the whole damn page

.

mike65 · 19-01-2007 3:57pm

try pie rather than www it seems a bit better.

Mike.

Mr. Presentable · 19-01-2007 5:24pm

Page generated in 4.13280 seconds with 11 queries

This is from the bottom of the Feedback page 3. It actually took 62 seconds to finish loading. In fact, as I type this this page has not yet completed.

mick.fr · 22-01-2007 2:52pm

This is insane, I am using a 10MB internet access at work and a 4MB at home, I have got the feeling to be on 33k dial-up here.
Please do something...

Looks to me more like a database perf issue because HTTP response is ok.
Maybe some database pruning then defrag might help ?

smashey · 22-01-2007 3:15pm

I'm on pie today and it is slow.

admin+statler@boards.ie Page generated in 42.60686 seconds with 13 queries

redzerdrog · 22-01-2007 5:18pm

It is doing my head in and putting me on tilt

dabbler2004 · 22-01-2007 6:29pm

I'm experiencing a lot of slowness too; 25 seconds to load each page and at that the avatars are still not visible. hope it's fixed soon, it's ruining my enjoyment of boards .

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