PF Slow: Find Solutions to Speed It Up

[Cyrus]

PF is really slow.

 

[Evo]

It's been horrible. I don't know what's wrong.

 

[russ_watters]

It was just a few minutes, wasn't it?

 

[Evo]

I've been experiencing periods of extreme slow downs for the past couple of days.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

hmm we just added a gig of ram today, things should be faster

 

[wolram]

hmm we just added a gig of ram today, things should be faster

Yey, i will get you moving, watch out for the tups though.

Even now, now, very now
an old black ram is tupping your white ewe.

 

[Andre]

Probably not only PF. Sometimes it takes a lot of time here to find any url. But right now indeed PF seems faster.

 

[chroot]

It hasn't seemed slow to me at all. Maybe there's router maintenance being done somewhere.

- Warren

 

[Evo]

It's fine now.

 

[Moonbear]

It hasn't seemed slow to me at all. Maybe there's router maintenance being done somewhere.

- Warren

No problems now, but hit some database errors and slowdowns last week. Greg knew about it at the time, and they seem to have been corrected.

 

[Cyrus]

slow slow slow

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

slow slow slow

1:55am is DB backup time

 

[Cyrus]

That post was 2:55 my time

 

[Moonbear]

That post was 2:55 my time

Greg is an hour behind you.

 

[turbo]

One thing that I have noticed for a while is that if I click on a thread title or the "New Posts" link quickly, the little "loading" icon in Firefox just sits and spins. If I hold the mouse button for 1/2 second or so, the update usually loads up quite promptly. I anybody else getting this, and is there a fix for it? Other web-sites don't give me this trouble, so it shouldn't be on my end...

 

[arivero]

very very very very sloooooow. Perhaps because of the new SciAm access scripts.

 

[Moonbear]

Several times yesterday, my connection timed out while loading pages on PF. No other sites were doing it to me, so it's not a problem on my end.

 

[Kurdt]

Several times yesterday, my connection timed out while loading pages on PF. No other sites were doing it to me, so it's not a problem on my end.

That happened to me too, but it was only around about a 30 minute window for me. I can't remember the times though.

 

[Andre]

Please, do implement a anti spider filter. I'm more than happy to fill in some additional hidden codes to get access to PF and have normal speed page loading time, but this is ridiculous. Everything loads quickly except PF which freezes up all the times.

 

[Moonbear]

Actually, I think some of the issues were something Greg has been tinkering with behind the scenes.

 

[rewebster]

For about a month now, I've had troubles only on the PF. Being slow is part of it, but the main problem is that often when I'm on the PF, my firewall program (Outpost) will crash and then the system crashes---just in this last month.

I looked at the 'attacks' to my ports and they were coming from the Physics Forum. Why would the PF site be trying to access different ports on my system? tcp's 1488 and 1489

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We may need a new server soon :(

 

[cristo]

We may need a new server soon :(

Oh dear; that sounds pretty expensive

 

[Gokul43201]

We may need a new server soon :(

Noooooooo!

 

[Moonbear]

We may need a new server soon :(

I hate server moves! No matter how carefully we pack up everything, the movers always break something or leave something behind at the old server.

 

[rewebster]

Were there any 'page properties' changes when PF partnered with SA?----that seems about the time when I started having problems with my firewall program crashing (and therefore the computer).

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

rewebster, there was a javascript file added. Check your firewall logs and get back to me with what you find.

FYI, we will be adding a high speed hard drive to house the database tomorrow, this should speed things up a noticable amount.

 

[Moonbear]

FYI, we will be adding a high speed hard drive to house the database tomorrow, this should speed things up a noticable amount.

Are any noticeable slowdowns or downtimes anticipated DURING the installation? Us PF addicts need some advanced warning to take a sedative or something to cope with any down time.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Are any noticeable slowdowns or downtimes anticipated DURING the installation? Us PF addicts need some advanced warning to take a sedative or something to cope with any down time.

2-3 hours, not sure what time yet

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Ok the new HD is installed and database has been moved. Hopefully this helps, let me know.