How's The Board Loading?

RawAlex · 2003-11-14, 07:05 PM

For me at this point, I see this:

main page and sections list fairly quickly today. The "new items" icon seems to take a long time to load, it is last.

Individual threads are REALLY slow to load. I sourced this thread as an example, and I am seeing a few signatures that are very long (cleo's randomizer thing is a pile of code, example), and the various grpahics added in the signature files add to the number of DNS lookups that need to be done. You might want to limit taglines to maybe 200 bytes and a single graphic, example, no more than 120 X 120.

replying takes time to load the form and such. Since it reloads part of the thread without signatures, I guess the sig files aren't the biggest hog. You might want to add some flush() commands in the PHP code to have it dump out at certain points so you can get a better idea of WHERE the slowdowns are occuring.

IMHO, it still looks like DB issues, either not having indexes for certain items that are being sorted on, or because of some limit (real or artificial) in the number of people able to access the database at the same time.

It's getting faster in some places, and that's good... keep at it :-)

Alex

View Poll Results: How's The Board Loading?
Like Shit Thru A Goose	6	9.68%
I've Seen Faster, But This Is Fine By Me	7	11.29%
A Little Slow, But I Can Live With It	17	27.42%
It's Like Watching Grass Grow	32	51.61%
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2003-11-14, 07:05 PM	#18
RawAlex Took the hint. Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,597	For me at this point, I see this: main page and sections list fairly quickly today. The "new items" icon seems to take a long time to load, it is last. Individual threads are REALLY slow to load. I sourced this thread as an example, and I am seeing a few signatures that are very long (cleo's randomizer thing is a pile of code, example), and the various grpahics added in the signature files add to the number of DNS lookups that need to be done. You might want to limit taglines to maybe 200 bytes and a single graphic, example, no more than 120 X 120. replying takes time to load the form and such. Since it reloads part of the thread without signatures, I guess the sig files aren't the biggest hog. You might want to add some flush() commands in the PHP code to have it dump out at certain points so you can get a better idea of WHERE the slowdowns are occuring. IMHO, it still looks like DB issues, either not having indexes for certain items that are being sorted on, or because of some limit (real or artificial) in the number of people able to access the database at the same time. It's getting faster in some places, and that's good... keep at it :-) Alex