EO Website Grinding to a Halt

Hiya David
It seems to work ok here at Adelaide River on Bigpond Wireless, but I will add at times it takes a while for the insert Image box to load up then other times it's like grease Lightening.

I shouldna said that, they'll all want to move here now.

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Great Doug,

I note actually that in the last 24 hours it has been constantly fast from all my testing - I had actually thought I had the problem solved yesterday afternoon and still at this stage my testing shows it to be so but if it is not then I have some more work to do.

Thanks for your note it helps when there is some good and not all bad!
DM

Gday David
Didn't you have the same problem last year ?
Murray

Hi David

I hit reply at 6.35 and it presented the edit window at 6.37 (painfully slow).

I have experienced the same behaviour a few times in the last week. "Solution" - I just click off and come back later. - frustrating.

This afternoon - no problems.

It just seems like your server is indexing files or doing a virus scan and everybody else can just wait. I know that is not YOUR intention.

May have to upgrade from the ol 286 ;-)

Malcolm

286? Geez you speed demons... My 8086 IBMPC is doing just fine here

Mark,
Thanks for that comment it reaffirms some results I have been seeing with East Coast vs West Coast. This narrows down the problem to a single thing and I will test this on Monday when I have an office full of people so that we can gauge the results. Thanks.
DM

Boys, that's the reason some of us choose to live in the West
because life IS much slower, just the way we enjoy it :)

(couldn't resist it - but I've no hassles with a slo site)

Maîneÿ . . .

I'm in Melbourne also on ADSL.

Also in Sydney - all websites are responding quickly except this one - at times.

I sent a reply to another thread here and I waited over a minute for it to load.

. . the one above took 22 seconds to submit.

Clicked on the Forum Home page - it finished loading 95 seconds later.

Clicked on the Forum home page again - it took 8 seconds to load.

The only consistency is that the time taken is very inconsistent.

Clicked on the Forum Home page - took 109 seconds to load.

Clicked on Open Thread (this one) - took 62 seconds.

Clicked on Reply - took 3 seconds.

Clicked SUBMIT - took 31 seconds.

This post has been read by the moderation team and has been moderated due to a breach of The Moderation Complaints Rule .

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Right now, everything happens in less than 2 seconds.
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. . . except SUBMIT, which took 7 seconds, but I conside that reasonable.
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yer Maîneÿ

I have an issue with "spell check" as well it always seems to spell my words wrong... LOL

Richard

This means that the site has been deployed with debug=true in the web.config? That will slow the site down considerably.

Any web masters reading this?

Mike,

I can assure you that web.config has debug=false - this error is the result of a url rewritter that get installed as a http module at a higher level and occurs after a WP recycle.

Thanks anyway - I think I have found the problem and the site has been very happy for the last 3 hours running at full speed. As you seem to know I have made some tuning changes to the Worker Process recycling setup. We had a leaky mem app in the mapping system and I have moved this to another hosting slot and changed the WP recycling which seems to have made all the difference in the world.

Have a good one.
DM

I notice my mem app leaking as I get older too.

"Worker Process recycling setup"

Isn't that those blokes imported on 457 Visas?? :-))

P.S. It does seem much better now.

Hi David

We're running a laptop (Vista) and using IE8 and a desktop (Vista) running Firefox and having problems on both machines loading the website. Taking us about 20 seconds to get the forum page and about 32 seconds to load this page.

We're on a 1500 speed fast broadband.

Also we're in Bunbury.

Cheers

Yep, still rubbish here too.

This is the single most problematic site that I visit on the internet....and it's the only one that I pay for.
It's just crap, and I'm over it.

That is all.

Cheers
Glenn

I can assure you 100% that the system performance since 2PM WST has been sub second to all requests - I have even removed some ad delivery to ensure that all load events trigger in the fastest fashion possible. I have run tests on the east and west coast every few minutes to capture response times and I am sure we are rendering with only seconds response time.

I am curious as to your situations and would be happy to assist in anyway I can however there are so many variables on the net that it is impossible to cover everything for everyone all the time.

Landseka - I rendered this page in less than 2 seconds when I just opened it - On this session I used Firefox on Vista - I just hit my IE on Vista and rendered the same page in about 2.4 seconds. I know this does not help you but I am confident in the server deliver now (thank goodness) so I wonder if there is something else running or happening on your machines - do you have a good AV and spy ware system running? Maybe try disabling your internet security system just for a moment to see if this makes any difference - A number of the main stream commercial security suites are a total waste of money and system resources but some of the parts of these are a must so it is difficult for me to advise you on these however try disabling it just for a short period to see if your systems improve. I suspect you are running to same software on both system (as this is what I would do) so see what happens with this and let me know. As try the flash update documented below - it really solves a lot of performance issues.

Glenn,
Can you give me any more data on this subject - I can try to help If you want me to so let me know some more - what pages, what browser, what security system, is your computer updated with windows update, security signatures etc. Oh and the most import of all the speed issues that there has been on the net for the last 8 months - can you please update your flash player to the latest - visit here and see how you go - Flash Update - you may think this is rubbish but if you have not updated this manually for the last few months give it a go and let me know.

DM

Hello David,

I hope you don't think that I am being critical of the site as I am not. I think it is well designed and informative. I don't pretend to be a .net expert, but I have developed quite a number of asp.net sites and unfortunately I have always found them to be on the slow side performance wise, which is a shame because they are a hell of a lot easier to develop when compared to the linux variety.
By the way, it took what seemed like forever to load the follow up form to write this.
I'm afraid that if we use the platform then we are at the mercy of Microsoft's tendency to bloat things to the whazoo.
Having said all that, it won't deter me from continuing to enjoy the site.

Mike

It's a little better tonight in Mildura but has been so bad just had to go elswhere,
Cheers,
Mary