ExplorOz CPU use - further to 71230

Hi David, It may not be a majority issue but I suspect that it may be bigger then you think. I suffer in silence and :-))

Hi David,

I'm with KiwiKia on this one.

I have days when the site is nice and fast and other days when it's like a slug. I'm still trying to figure out what the common thread is for this behaviour.

It doesn't seem to be related to the PC or operating system I'm using as it happens on everything from my EEE PC to a Core 2 Duo and on XP Pro, Win 7 (Final Beta) and Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. The amount of time I've watched the Firefox status bar say "Waiting for www.exploroz.com..." could be better spent planning the next trip! :-))

David, as KK said, I think this is more than the odd isolated incident and if we don't comment on the forum, then no one will know that others are having problems. Like KK, I just wait for the site to come up and wonder why it takes an age at one time and yet is really snappy at others. It's a puzzlement.

FWIW, I suspect that my ISP (Optus cable) may have something to do with it, but that obviously isn't KK's problem in the Land of the Long Wide Vowel.

Cheers,
Chris

PS: As an example, the spell check window for this piece just took 67 seconds to open but pings to www.exploroz.com and exploroz.com (no www) returned the following:-

C:\Documents and Settings\chris>ping www.exploroz.com

Pinging www.exploroz.com [210.247.153.145] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 210.247.153.145: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=114
Reply from 210.247.153.145: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=114
Reply from 210.247.153.145: bytes=32 time=122ms TTL=114
Reply from 210.247.153.145: bytes=32 time=92ms TTL=114

Ping statistics for 210.247.153.145:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 30ms, Maximum = 122ms, Average = 70ms

C:\Documents and Settings\chris>ping exploroz.com

Pinging exploroz.com [202.139.234.85] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 202.139.234.85:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

"....but I suspect that it may be bigger then you think. I suffer in silence and :-))"

Me too...

The common thread as per the last long post was that the problems went away after a Flash player update so please do this and see how you go. I would love to be able to solve all the problems but every machine has different OS, browser and not to mention connectivity to the internet and security software. From our testing which runs 24 hours a day hitting the site - we do not see any ongoing performance issues.

If you account is slowed this is a problem and I am trying to find out what the story is, there is a Site Tips blog about a test that seems to solve it for a number of people.

David

has a easy to use 'spell checker' too
as well as 'adBlocker' :-)

Maîneÿ . . .