April 29, 201313 yr Lookin please come work with me.. I love your problem solving skills and detail oriented statements. Also you have compassion and love toward people around you. Safari has a 'developer' toolkit which I just ran during the latest delayed page opening. It took an agonizing 1.3 minutes to load an element called "index.php". That seems to be the entry point to the Message Forum. Sometimes there are a few elements that load before "index.php", mostly jpegs, and they come from cache. Therefore, they load quickly, and that's probably what lets the progress bar move a short distance right away. But then it hangs, waiting for the "index.php" element to load. "index.php" appears to be a fairly small ~90kb text/html file and, when it actually starts loading, it does so in a second or two. And everything that loads after "index.php" loads in a matter of seconds. So, I think if you ask the programmers to figure out what makes the "index.php" file occasionally reluctant to start loading, you'll have solved your problem.
April 30, 201313 yr This morning the site seemed to be moving along more appropriately but this evening its been hit and miss.
April 30, 201313 yr Author It will be hit and miss for a bit as we have installed slow logging queeries on the site. This lets us know exactly where the slow issues are but it slows down my entire server. It was a needed step and I hope they have some more detail on this in the next day or two. I am trying everything possible to resolve this. It is very odd though as I have several sites with the exact same code and none of them are slow or having issues. It is only this site. My programmers have been working overtime on this but as they work, they are taking away things that were done to improve the site in the past few months one by one to try to test the issue. My apologies for the inconvenience.
April 30, 201313 yr It will be hit and miss for a bit as we have installed slow logging queeries on the site. This lets us know exactly where the slow issues are but it slows down my entire server. It was a needed step and I hope they have some more detail on this in the next day or two. I am trying everything possible to resolve this. It is very odd though as I have several sites with the exact same code and none of them are slow or having issues. It is only this site. My programmers have been working overtime on this but as they work, they are taking away things that were done to improve the site in the past few months one by one to try to test the issue. My apologies for the inconvenience. I know you're working hard on this, and we appreciate it. Are all the sites on the site server? Are the pages being loaded the same size, and are they created dynamically with each click? I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the problem occurs more often when I try to open a forum rather than when I'm going to the next unread topic.
April 30, 201313 yr Active Members It is very odd though as I have several sites with the exact same code and none of them are slow or having issues. Pardon me, but if it's the exact same code, wouldn't they be the exact same sites? One thing I learned from the small amount of programming I've done over the years is that even a single line of code, or even a byte, or even a bit, can make a world of difference in how a program behaves. The only other thing I learned is that I'm glad I'm not a programmer.
April 30, 201313 yr Pardon me, but if it's the exact same code, wouldn't they be the exact same sites? One thing I learned from the small amount of programming I've done over the years is that even a single line of code, or even a byte, or even a bit, can make a world of difference in how a program behaves. The only other thing I learned is that I'm glad I'm not a programmer. The code might be the same but the objects & data it manipulates can differ. And the location & quantity of the objects & data can impact performance.
April 30, 201313 yr The code might be the same but the objects & data it manipulates can differ. And the location & quantity of the objects & data can impact performance. Speaking out of pure ignorance I was thinking the same thing. In particular, that the dynamic content management going on here on the forums would seem to be a different computational burden and code situation than serving up static content on porn sites.
April 30, 201313 yr Author Can others check and see if this issue is solved? The programmers tell me they think they have it fixed. (Again)
April 30, 201313 yr I have no problem... Can others check and see if this issue is solved? The programmers tell me they think they have it fixed. (Again)
April 30, 201313 yr Come on OZ we're not gonna fall for that placebo effect But the forums are very responsive this morning. However, for me, they were that way yesterday morning too. If tonight goes just as smooth then it will appear the problem fixed. I'll report back
April 30, 201313 yr Active Members Did several posts and opened a bunch of threads as new pages, haven't noticed any lag yet. Yay!
April 30, 201313 yr Well as I mentioned I wanted to see how it did this evening and all is well. Looks as if problem solved
April 30, 201313 yr Author So what was the culprit? We made several changes in MySQL settings after we did some modifications to the code. They said it worked but I heard this from them 10 times before. LOL
May 1, 201313 yr Active Members I am very pleased with today's speed and ability to browse and post. Best regards, RA1
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