TB pages slow in loading back/forward

[Guiseppe]

Looked through the past posts to see if I could find anything previously posted that would point me towards an answer...but no luck.

When I'm on TB and using my browsers back/forward buttons to browse, I typically have to hit the buttons 2-3 times to get it to "take". I see this from both my home and friend's computer, and tracert doesn't show any hops that are extrordinarily long. Do you have any thoughts on what could be causing this? I don't have this problem on any other website...

Thanks for the help!

 

[paul]

Well, server loads have been a bit high when we have 1000+ users on the forums during peak hours. I'm guessing this is when you notice a slowdown?. I'm having 3 more cpu's put into the front end webserver early Fri morning (about 5 hours from now) so things should pick up

 

[Guiseppe]

Paul,

Thanks for the feedback, Paul. To be honest, I haven't really paid attention to the time (I will now) but it seems more or less like it's ongoing. The thing that strikes me as odd is that it's usually stuff that is (should be) cached, so I'm kinda scratching my head why it would only be doing it on TB (seems to be the only site, but I'll keep it in mind and let you know if I see otherwise.)

Are you actually adding CPU's (as in clustering?) or are you adding blades?

Joe

 

[paul]

Paul,

Thanks for the feedback, Paul. To be honest, I haven't really paid attention to the time (I will now) but it seems more or less like it's ongoing. The thing that strikes me as odd is that it's usually stuff that is (should be) cached, so I'm kinda scratching my head why it would only be doing it on TB (seems to be the only site, but I'll keep it in mind and let you know if I see otherwise.)

Are you actually adding CPU's (as in clustering?) or are you adding blades?

Joe

We're adding cores to an existing box

Well, for the last several years we've added 'no-cache' headers to TalkBass pages - reason is, users were seeing cached copies of outdated threads, and wondering "where did the post go?!" type thing. I'll look into this again as the technology has changed a lot in 3 years

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

The thing that strikes me as odd is that it's usually stuff that is (should be) cached,

Could it be that your hard drive is full up to its limit with temp internet files?

I often notice that if you delete these, it can have an effect or increase the size of the cache?

I once was asked about a problem where a group of secretaries in a head office, had all their PCs become useless at the same time - it turned out that their hard drives had filled up completely with temp files from Word and the net etc.

I went round deleting all these and they were all back up and running - and amazed!!

 

[Guiseppe]

Could it be that your hard drive is full up to its limit with temp internet files?

I often notice that if you delete these, it can have an effect or increase the size of the cache?

I once was asked about a problem where a group of secretaries in a head office, had all their PCs become useless at the same time - it turned out that their hard drives had filled up completely with temp files from Word and the net etc.

I went round deleting all these and they were all back up and running - and amazed!!

I'd thought about that as well - the problem remained even after clearing the cache (and then temp internet files via IE).

 

[Guiseppe]

Paul,

So far, the extra 'oomph' seems to have helped considerably. In the past, I've gotten into the habit of opening a new window for each thread I'm going to (from the 'index' of each forum) as using the back/forward buttons wasn't working. This morning I've consciously NOT done that, and so far only once or twice have 'hung' where I've had to press back/forward a second time to get results. Looks as though that might've been a good fix (at least for me).

Thanks for the responsiveness (from a former SA).

Joe