Performance Issues - Delays in Refreshing / Serving Pages

[GregE240]

Ted,

Me, and 2 colleagues that are also PH-ers are experiencing performance issues, both with Gassing Station and also other aspects of the site, specifically the Classifieds section.

The symptoms are some latency after clicking, a progress bar that barely moves, then a sudden refresh of the page.

For example, I was looking at a car advert last week with one colleague, and we both timed it. At the very same moment both browsers sprang into life and served the requested page.

The problem also seems to be intermittent as for whole periods the site seems to work quite seamlessly, then suddenly it freezes up.

We are all on different ISPs.

Any ideas?

[GregE240]

[Podie]

Reckon it's the hamster mate... perhaps I should lend them Sparky..?


Interestingly I've had this issue for a while... but assumed it was client side updates. In fact, I have to click the IE6 refresh button to update the Gassing Station as the What's New --> Last Visit buttons don't give me the latest postings...

[PetrolTed]

I do see a few 'blips' each day, perhaps 4-5 per day where things back up, but beyond that everything's working smoothly.

[gopher]

It's just erroring ATM Ted

[Rico]

The haynet.adbureau.net ads are taking ages to load for me at the moment. The first half of the page loads, then it stalls whilst the ad loads, then the rest of the page loads.

[Mannginger]

Yup - there is something wrong with a couple of the ads, they're taking some time to come in and then when they've loaded the rest is quick as you like.

Phil

Edited for spelling

Edited by Mannginger on Wednesday 14th March 20:56

[Balmoral Green]

Slow to respond, click, click, click, no response. Then when the page does load, the last bit at the bottom doesnt, so you can't see the last couple of posts, have to keep hitting refresh, and again, and again etc. It's been a bit poo the last few weeks TBH.

[Kinky]

It's really slow tonight - takes up to about 30 seconds to load a page.

K

[PetrolTed]

I've made a few tweaks...

[PetrolTed]

Some more required

[BliarOut]

PetrolTed said:

Some more required

That hit the spot

[Kinky]

Seems to be working a treat now Ted.



K

[BliarOut]

Working... It's bloody flying at the moment

[Podie]

Virtually dead this morning for about 10 minutes... status bar in IE crawlled to 5 bars, then sat there.

Made a brew, tried again and all seems better...

[PetrolTed]

I think there's a batch job that runs at 8:15am that hits us every morning. We'll revisit that.

[Balmoral Green]

It aint getting any better, I cant get a page to fully load, I just get about two thirds, and have to wait ages to get the last third to read the last posts on a thread. And as for posting, have ti hit submit, nothing, so hit back, and then forward and try again, its taking ages.

Once I get this posted, will call it a day on PH for tonight, its too frustrating.

Edited to add, once this was posted and I returned to the topic, it would only load as far as manngingers post before my last post on this page, so I couldnt even read my post after I posted it, had to wait an age to get to it and then edit to add this.

Edited by Balmoral Green on Friday 16th March 22:14

[Balmoral Green]

Rico said:

The haynet.adbureau.net ads are taking ages to load for me at the moment. The first half of the page loads, then it stalls whilst the ad loads, then the rest of the page loads.

Just noticed this, and the add is to the right of manngingers post, it stops there every time.

[deevlash]

Its taking ages to load the pages in the gassing station, I cant use it at all

[Benni]

Hi ForumHeads !
Yes, still slow, takes about 30 sec. to load a page,
and some pages and forums even longer.
Wasn´t the slogan: "PistonHeads....speed matters" ??
Im am using IE7 (the new one from Dec.06).
Today is the first day this is slow here, otherwise very fast & fine.
Cheers,
Benni