I’m finding it generally much faster. I had some waits yesterday, but none today so far. Chez and Liberal, I found the waits yesterday to be delightfully piquant.
No, ya gotta walk before we can run. Let’s use whippets.
It’s probably just my imagination. I’m becoming senile in my afflicted old age. Just the other day, I thought I was sucking on a cigarette, but it wasn’t.
Well, anything except the basset hounds they seem to be using.
Yesterday I had a couple of long waits, plus one timeout at 3:55 PM Chicago time.
Greyhounds have no staying power. You want a team of sled dogs.
I too am getting mostly faster service with the occasional serious “hang”, including an occasional timeout.
[timidly offers the new capybaras a carrot]
Edit function? Oh man, GD and the Pit are fucked.
FWIW, everything is zooming along for me.
Exactly what new features are there, anyway?
I am getting irregular results, but the trend line is down. It is taking 3 to 4 minutes to get a preview. Sometimes it times out. Posting takes just as long. I’m afraid to try a search.
Seriously, folks, this is getting ridiculous. Is the CPU maxed out? Copius RAM not being recognized? Memory allocation compromised? Some background task running that hogs the CPU? Has our server been taken over by porn site storage? Are SQL pointers bashed? Are the gamma rays attacking the marigolds? Did something overflow? Is a massive internal repair process going on? Re-indexing? Backing up? Slowing down? Hamster chow lower in calories? Hamsters mating with the Capybaras?
FYI: It took 2.5 minutes to preview this post. Now I will try to submit it. Wish me luck.
6 minutes to post, then timeout. New preview shows it went thru, but if the edit limit is 5 minutes, that would have been useless.
FYI: this preview was instant. Could someone be doing CPU-intensive searches?
This is ridiculous. I’ve had more time-outs today than I have had in years.
Medic!
I was just locked out of the Board, effectively; for the last 10 minutes, I was unable to load any thread or forum. Eventually, it wouldn’t even let me get to the Board at all from the Front Page.
This is the behavior that, in the old servers, caused me to almost eschew participation. It simply isn’t any fun waiting to see if a page loads, then checking back, then finding out you were timed out and have to manually look for new threads, etc. I maintain, therefore, this issue is not server related, but either software related or non-server infrastructure related.
Capybaras appear to be just as lazy at times, in other words. :smack: 
I wonder who will snap first and pit the new server?
Reading this thread, it seems others are experiencing what I would sum up as lightning speed followed by abysmal slowness. It doesn’t seem to be tied to our actions as users; I just tried a PM and it took 4 minutes to post, another board post took 3, then everything became instant.
If I were trying to track down the problem, I sure would be watching the server utilization meters on one monitor while looking at the application load on another. If the load maxes out, what processes are driving it? I’ll bet there are signicant spikes, and those are easier to track down than slow rampups.
Preview: instant, 2X
I just had a timeout trying to reply. Also, the mainpage recognizes me, but when I post, I have to re-login:
Hehehe, something has to feed them!
I had the forlorn hope that perhaps when the new server took over, there would be an improvement in the speed, but it’s even worse. In the year and a half have been here, it seems to get progressively worse.
Frequent delays of up to a minute just to get into the forum, then more delays in opening a thread, and often it will timeout and not open at all. Many times I can’t get here at all, even in low-usage times.
Even longer delays in trying to post or preview.
This seems to be getting worse all the time and is really annoying. It is not my computer, as everything else works fine, including another forum (MobileRead) which seems to use the exact same software. No delays there at all. Ever.
What accounts for this and why can’t it be fixed?
Jerry’s been notified.
For what it’s worth, it seems to vary a lot. Most of the time, I’ve found it to be way way speedier than the old server. I’ve had only a couple of occasions of “somewhat slow.” It may have to do with search function, it may have to do with editing one’s own posts, it may have to do with your own computer/connection, it may have to do with somethin’ else. Please bear with us. Implementation of new systems always involves some minor trauma.
KlondikeGeoff. Since your post/thread was essentially about this one that was already running, I merged the two.
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