Load times should be slightly faster

[djensen]

I removed the savethedevelopers.org stuff because apparently their site is down. This should improve page load times.

<rant>It’ll be nice when the browsers start using some of the Goolge Chrome compoents that were recently released into the wild, namely not stopping all browser rending on script tags.</rant>

[Guest]

I am still having issues with the dreaded white “Page is temporarily not available” even after the change.

Today has been REALLY bad for me with it.

Firefox recently updated, so not sure if that is part of the issue or not (the problem seems to have gotten worse since the Firefox update, it had been less common since the removal of the Savethedevelopers link until the Firefox update.  Since then it has been TERRIBLE for me…)

[djensen]

That should no longer be a problem.

[DarthMaximus]

I’ve been getting some of the page not available screens over the past week or so.
Usually it is corrected after a refresh or too, but I just figured I’d mention it.

[Krieghund]

I’ve been getting them, also.  I’ve also been having a problem of having Internet Explorer crash several times while trying to load from this site in the last couple of days.

[Krieghund]

I haven’t been experiencing browser crashes anymore, but load times are still extremely slow most of the time.

[TimTheEnchanter]

Just confirming lots of “page is temporarily unavailable” messages for the past few days and in the cases when it does come up, the pages are ve-e-e-ry slow to load.  Something is hanging, big time.

[timerover51]

Hmm, nice to know that the problem is not my being on a Mac.  Load times and page temporarily not available are a big nuisance for Macs as well.  Neither Safari or FireFox seems to help.

[Jennifer]

I think it might be that Vote No on Prop 8 thing.  It’s a video and it probably needs to load the entire video, even if you don’t watch it, everytime you load a new page.

I mentioned this in another thread, but maybe that should be dropped.  Prop 8 passed overwhelmingly (2/3rds majority) so keeping it up now just seems spiteful to me.  Kinda like people still driving around with Bob Dole campaign stickers from 1996.

Can we replace it with a widget to go pre-order Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition?  It would fit the site better, in my most humble of opinions.  Just don’t make it a video widget!!!

[Krieghund]

@Cmdr:

Prop 8 passed overwhelmingly (2/3rds majority) so keeping it up now just seems spiteful to me.

Not to be picky, but 52.5% to 47.5% is not an overwhelming majority.

[djensen]

Didn’t I say no mention of the Prop 8 ad?

Also you should know better. When something doesn’t happen around here, there are no motives, just neglectfulness or laziness.

The response issues are not the ad, btw, its a server configuration thing. I’ve been looking into it here and there. After I reboot the webserver, things seem to get better for a while.

[djensen]

So mentioning the ad was supposed to result in an immediate 1 week ban from the site. I think I could have overlooked it if it was just speculating that it might be the source of the performance problem but, Jen, you took it to the next half-level. But not quite enough to get banned. ;-)

[Jennifer]

@djensen:

So mentioning the ad was supposed to result in an immediate 1 week ban from the site. I think I could have overlooked it if it was just speculating that it might be the source of the performance problem but, Jen, you took it to the next half-level. But not quite enough to get banned. ;-)

Sorry, didn’t mean to get all political about it.  I just thought, based on that it WAS a video, that it might be an issue of having to download the video each time.  I don’t have all your fancy admin rights, so I don’t get to see what the issues are or are not on this forum. :P

[djensen]

I know, I was just busting your chops.

I’m still digging around and working on it.

[djensen]

It might turn out that I have to change forums software again.  :-(

[djensen]

Is it better now?

It seems a bit faster to me.

[Krieghund]

It seems somewhat faster.  There are still a number of instances where it’s quite slow, but less of them than before.

[djensen]

Yeah, I have twice as many threads processing requests now. But now CPU usage is up. Swap usage is also probably up so when memory is need it is writing to disk which is slower than accessing RAM.

[Jennifer]

Much better, DJ.

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@djensen:

I know, I was just busting your chops.

I’m still digging around and working on it.

Good to know.  Any chance I can get that code I’ve been bugging you about for a year now? wink

What if I send scandalous pictures to your wife if you don’t send me the code, eh???  hehe.

[djensen]

Yup. My site. My rules. Don’t like it? Leave.