hang time

[Distorted.Clarity]

when in a thread, the last part where quick reply is hangs for about 5 mins.
the page loads down to the links for digg and all that right above where the box and editor would be.
that gets a bit anoying as it sometimes locks up my browser.

OS: Mandriva - gnome
Browser: firefox, opera, chrome (all same)

maybe ill have to just start using the mobile version of the site.. got a link for that?

also any chance you could take the suppliers section and make them sub forums? because that would reduce drag on the forum. no more (to many connections) that lock us all out at peak hrs. also less stuff to have to scroll threw.

 

[rolygate]

Page lockup below the fold: not sure what this is. Not reported by anyone else so it looks like a local problem.

You could try updating your Java install although it's probably not relevant here, only thing I can suggest though. Has to be an OS or machine issue of some kind. Actually it sounds more like a JavaScript issue though I don't see how, if your browser is a good one. Don't use IE, JS is v. slow on that! I'd try another OS in a partition, or another machine, and test to eliminate. Guessing here at some kind of Mandriva/browser JS thing but I don't really know.

Supplier forums: yes, I admit that is a bit of a drag. However for various reasons they have to be on the forum index. Not sure about "all locked out at peak hours", not reported by anyone else. Currently there is an issue with the site backup running at 1am EC, sometimes it's causing problems, we're going to move it back 3 hours, hopefully this week.

Howver we will be changing the site structure slightly in 2 weeks time, the forum index will not be the front page any more, partly due to this issue - a standard website page will be the front page (running on a CMS). The site will speed up immediately as a result and it will fix this particular issue. Plus we'll have a ton of space to publish properly-formatted articles and resources. Should be up by August 1st with luck. Problem solved.

 

[Distorted.Clarity]

found the problem
in the bookmarks under the posts there is a link called "TwitThis"

that link even work because if i click on it nothing happens?

 

[Quick1]

I occassionally (but more than rarely) get some message to the effect that the site is to busy at the moment and try again later. Happens in the middle of the day. Browse for a while, click on something like User CP or New Posts and get the message (it's a large box on a page by itself)

 

[rolygate]

@DC
As far as I know, those twitter links work. I hope so anyway, all that scripting load is a pain - so they better work...

@Q1
What is your time zone, please? (Need to know what midday would be.)

 

[Distorted.Clarity]

q1 is PDT

i usually have issues from 8pm-3am with forum overload. EDT -5

the twitthis is actually a plug-in and is located at the bottom of the admin page. if you have access to that, it's a simple enable or disable radial button and then apply.

i'm actually having some 2ed guesses about that. when i am hung up now it is looking up s3.chuug.com
is that part of the plug-in for twitthis? seems unlikely.
can't rule it out being that it is a third party plug-in.
i'm going to download the plug and see if i can find that in the coding.

 

[Distorted.Clarity]

ok, tiwtthis is using amazon s3 to store images. that's what the hang time is coming from.
there are a good amount of pages online about s3.chuug.com and issues.
the call is for the image for twitthis, if all s3.chuug.com links were removed and the icon was saved to the server. just drop the redirect to the server path here.

wow, looks like even the .js file is attached there
http://s3.chuug.com/chuug.twitthis.scripts/twitthis.js
ttp://s3.chuug.com/chuug.twitthis.resources/twitthis_grey_72×22.gif

if you were to download both of those and host here, that would fix the issue after the code was changed.

this is the code.

<!– Begin TwitThis (http://twitthis.com/) –>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://s3.chuug.com/chuug.twitthis.scripts/twitthis.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
document.write(’<a href=”javascript:;” onclick=”TwitThis.pop();”><img src=”http://s3.chuug.com/chuug.twitthis.resources/twitthis_grey_72×22.gif” alt=”TwitThis” style=”border:none;” /></a>’);
//–>
</script>
<!– /End –>

 

[rolygate]

OK I'll ask our server tech to look at this.

Thanks.