[RESOLVED] Very slow access

[2kaud]

I'm getting a very slow response from this site. Between 20 and 30 seconds to access anything on the site with occasional 504 Gateway timeouts. Ping reports a round-trip time of 15ms.

Is this already known and being investigated?

PS. I'm using Firefox and other non-related sites have expected fast responses.

NB When updating this post I got the error:

Error 503 first byte timeout

first byte timeout
Error 54113

Details: cache-chi-kigq8000037-CHI 1709052996 3913193284

but the post had been updated OK.

[Carlos Rocha]

The slowness happens to me too. It seems something is being cooked then the page is displayed fast.

[Steve R Jones]

Yes we are aware.

[Steve R Jones]

This morning this site and the ten other sister sites have very good response times.

Will continue to monitor.

[2kaud]

Yes, response is much improved.

[Steve R Jones]

I don't know if they fixed something or if this is part of the intermittent process we've been seeing.... Time will tell.

[Carlos Rocha]

Confirmed, very fast now

[2kaud]

ten other sister sites

Why not on each one provide a ribbon of links to all the others?

[Zvoni]

I don't know if they fixed something or if this is part of the intermittent process we've been seeing.... Time will tell.

Mayhap the Servers are running Windows?

[Shaggy Hiker]

These are computers. Fixing problems is essentially a game of whack-a-mole.

Does that even translate across the pond? The only place I know of that game ever existing was in Chuck e Cheese restaurants, a place I never visited, so I only knew it by reputation (both the game and the establishment). It couldn't be known only from there, could it?

[Steve R Jones]

Mayhap the Servers are running Windows?

Luckily we don't really care what they run.

But the good news is that they did do a fix so in theory, these nice speeds should be here awhile.

[Peter Swinkels]

These are computers. Fixing problems is essentially a game of whack-a-mole.

Does that even translate across the pond? The only place I know of that game ever existing was in Chuck e Cheese restaurants, a place I never visited, so I only knew it by reputation (both the game and the establishment). It couldn't be known only from there, could it?

Late reply, but the site has been working fine the last few days. And, I know about whack-a-mole from tv. :-) :-)

[OptionBase1]

Intermittent slowness again today. Gateway Timeouts, Varnish Cache Server errors.

[Steve R Jones]

OK.

Seems good now.

[OptionBase1]

Intermittent slowness again today. Gateway Timeouts, Varnish Cache Server errors.

Happening again this morning intermittently. Maybe like 1 time in 20 when accessing a page.

[2kaud]

Same here. Had a couple of timeouts.

[Steve R Jones]

Reported.

[Steve R Jones]

The good news is that the guys actually get alarms when a lot of these Errors pop up... The bad news is that the source of the issue hasn't been discovered "yet".

[Steve R Jones]

The IT Guys did a "tweak" that should help.... Let me know if you see the random slowness.

[OptionBase1]

Just got another Gateway Timeout.

[Steve R Jones]

Does clicking on View Forum Leaders mess anyone up? I get an error 503 or 504 every time on any site.

[Zvoni]

Does clicking on View Forum Leaders mess anyone up? I get an error 503 or 504 every time on any site.

If you meant "Quick Links - View Site Leaders", then i just received something "cryptic"

Site-response

Cannot use assign-op operators with string offsets on line 5445 in  /var/www/html/www.vbforums.com/public_html/includes/functions.php
#0 /var/www/html/www.vbforums.com/public_html/showgroups.php(67): cache_permissions(Array, false)
#1 /var/www/html/www.vbforums.com/public_html/showgroups.php(151): process_showgroups_userinfo(Array)
#2 {main}

[2kaud]

yes - I get the same.

I also like this from Zvoni's post

Last edited by Zvoni; Tomorrow at 31:69 PM.

Time travel anyone?

[Zvoni]

yes - I get the same.

I also like this from Zvoni's post




Time travel anyone?

LOL.... i still can't believe, that there are users here, who haven't figured it out.

To quote our Boss here (Steve R Jones): "It involves tom-foolery"

[2kaud]

that there are users here, who haven't figured it out

Who said I hadn't...

[Couin]

I get very slow responses (up to 20 seconds) from the forum, for exemple to anwser to a thread.

Even to answer here, I even got a 503 error.

Error 503 first byte timeout

first byte timeout
Error 54113

Details: cache-chi-kigq8000156-CHI 1714011323 446980165

Varnish cache server

[jpbro]

I get very slow responses (up to 20 seconds) from the forum, for exemple to anwser to a thread.

Even to answer here, I even got a 503 error.

Could be due to this spam attack:

Attachment 191316

[Couin]

You link/attachment gives me:

Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator

[Steve R Jones]

All seems well now..

[Zvoni]

All seems well now..

That were (more or less) the final words in the last Harry Potter Book.....

Maybe our Forum is cursed?

[Steve R Jones]

That were (more or less) the final words in the last Harry Potter Book.....

Maybe our Forum is cursed?

OH Ship.... Me thinks we were ok until YOU jinxed us.

[Zvoni]

Forum acts "sluggish" with the current (see post-timestamp) Spam-Attack by this "Help for Love-Problems in Iraq"-Spammer

[sapator]

What.....Do y.....
Ou mean.........
It's ............
Slow?

Actually the forum is fast but I get a 503 sometimes. P.E. I tried to save an edit on DB forum and poofff! 503. After a while it's fixed.

[OptionBase1]

Site is slow again this morning, getting intermittent timeouts loading pages.

[2kaud]

Currently speed seems intermittent. Sometimes OK, sometimes much slower....

[OptionBase1]

Intermittently sluggish again this morning.

[Steve R Jones]

The 503 type of errors actually show up/are logged and are monitored by the IT guys.

I sent them an email this morning asking if they can make the errors go away.

[OptionBase1]

Sluggish again tonight, got a cache server timeout error earlier. There's an underlying slowness in general where, as you navigate the site, there is, at minimum, a consistent perceptible pause between pages. The pause sometimes is painfully long, but always seems present.

[OptionBase1]

Multiple 504 Gateway Timeout's in the past few minutes, and when pages do load there is significant sluggishness.

[2kaud]

Agree about the sluggishness.