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> BBS is slow now... anyone else?
Aaron Cox
post Nov 10 2003, 09:00 PM
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I have cable, and this site makes it feel like I'm on dial up now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) , other sites are still quick.... is it client end or server?
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post Nov 10 2003, 09:07 PM
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Nope, it's just slow... same here

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post Nov 10 2003, 09:08 PM
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I have noticed the same thing. Sometimes the page takes forever to load the graphics (just the smilies and buttons, not even talking about large photos). Dunno if it is related to the new server, or something else like an ISP issue?
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post Nov 10 2003, 09:11 PM
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real slow about 5min ago trying to load a picture
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post Nov 10 2003, 09:18 PM
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looks like the server is not handling the I/O well maybe? pings to the router before the server look good, but pinging the server gives awful reponses sporadically.
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post Nov 10 2003, 09:28 PM
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I am on way fast cable, and it took nearly 15 seconds to load the reply page.

It's Karl's fault, he has an astrological degree.

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post Nov 10 2003, 09:43 PM
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It must be because "what's his face" is trying to figure out how to load a giant photo of the swastika as his avatar!!!!
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post Nov 10 2003, 09:48 PM
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Prolly all the avatars with moving parts....
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post Nov 11 2003, 04:40 AM
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Is this something that can be fixed or do we have to learn to live with it? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)
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post Nov 11 2003, 04:48 AM
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I have noticed this also..

First.. I would like to say: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/finger.gif) to all the Unix/Linux/Red hat people...

I'm sure there is *some* tuning that can be done. The server is just a lonely Pentium 450 tower box with 40gig HD and 512k worth of ram running Linux now.

We where on a bad ass NT box... but everyone complained about the outages... right now they are not looking so bad compared to this.

I cant pop for a 3.0gig P4 right now to run this thing (and If I did it would go back to W2K server). I *thought* the 450 box would be "ok" running Linux and doing nothing but serving up this BBS. It has NO other load on it.

We will see.


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post Nov 11 2003, 04:48 AM
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Definitely feels like dial up.
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post Nov 11 2003, 10:45 AM
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It's not the speed of the box. There is some other issue at stake.

It was running fine until about 24 hrs ago and then it slooooowed big time. It must be trying to run some other processes or is in some loop looking for data.

I have a basic linux box acting as a file server to about 50 machines with constant data access of big giles (2 Mb average) and it is plenty fast.
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post Nov 11 2003, 11:06 AM
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Some of these avatars are hilarious and quite the attention getters. I would bet the server is having a problem. I am not a Unix or Linux type person, but I can tell when a server is running slow.
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post Nov 11 2003, 11:13 AM
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Lose the animated avatars for a test run and come back to us.
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post Nov 11 2003, 11:20 AM
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This has probably been looked at already but I'm gonna say it anyway.

Has Link Speed and Duplex been nailed on the interfaces or is it still set to Auto?

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post Nov 11 2003, 12:05 PM
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i broke it again.
trying to figure out why it's not sending mail out correctly, some domains get it some don't. fiddled with the DNS yesterday cause i couldn't ping a lot of domains from the server itself. still no progress there ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

the lag/delay is the server trying to resolve domains and hanging in a loop until it times out. it's all the emails for topic subscriptions ....


soooooo, if everyone who has a subscription for the main forum or specific topics could PLEASE turn those OFF until i have resolved this issue.

thanx,
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post Nov 11 2003, 12:11 PM
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Andy,

Is that something an admin can do globally? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
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post Nov 11 2003, 12:14 PM
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QUOTE(Brad Roberts @ Nov 11 2003, 02:48 AM)
First.. I would like to say: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/finger.gif) to all the Unix/Linux/Red hat people...

512k worth of ram running Linux now.

well there's your problem, 512 "k" of RAM.

ok, kidding aside. like someone mentioned, check the speed/duplex settings. you can also check the interface on the linux box for errors. run a "netstat -s" and look for the retransmission coutner going up.

I'm betting it's the CPU/hard drive, 450Mhz is darn slow for a webserver that's not a personal homepage. what's the load on the server when running "top"? also, you can tune the hard drive with the "hdparm" utility. maybe the IDE settings are off, or is this SCSI?

can you download and install the sysstat RPM? that has an iostat utility which might give some details on CPU and hard drive performance.
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post Nov 11 2003, 12:15 PM
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Andy, another problem is that any time you use VNC for remote admin it's going to suck up a huge amount of the boxes bandwidth and make the site slow for people. Turn off X and VNC and use ssh for all your admin. It's low bandwidth and more secure. You can do ANYTHING with a ssh session. Gotta let go of those windows culture "must have a GUI" urges. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

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post Nov 11 2003, 12:18 PM
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QUOTE(vortrex @ Nov 11 2003, 10:14 AM)
I'm betting it's the CPU/hard drive, 450Mhz is darn slow for a webserver that's not a personal homepage. what's the load on the server when running "top"? also, you can tune the hard drive with the "hdparm" utility. maybe the IDE settings are off, or is this SCSI?

load is less than 10%, even if i'm logged in with VNC on XWindows (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

450 is plenty for just serving web-pages. we used to play quake/unreal with full settings on 450 boxes ...

as i said before, the DNS lookup is fucked up, the server hangs until timeout everytime it can't resolve a domain.

werking on it,
Andy

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