# Painfully slow today **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 13, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739 "2022-01-13T18:25:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/1 "2022-01-13T18:25:11Z")
The SDMB is painfully slow today - like vBulletin in its heyday. The forum list page, a forum page, or opening a thread will wait anywhere from a few seconds to 30 seconds or so, and as often as not, result in a blank page. Anyone else seeing this? Something up with AWS today? ETA: Interestingly, posting this thread was instantaneous… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/2 "2022-01-13T18:26:06Z")
I am not noticing any lag at all. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/3 "2022-01-13T18:26:29Z")
Neither am I. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/4 "2022-01-13T18:27:57Z")
You know that long-lasting problem with the car that disappears the second you try to point it out to your mechanic? 😄 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/5 "2022-01-13T18:28:23Z")
No lag here. No lagomorphs, either. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/6 "2022-01-13T18:30:20Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You know that long-lasting problem with the car that disappears the second you try to point it out to your mechanic? Or software, or plumbing, or whatever… It’s getting a little better. Still 10-15 seconds to load a thread. Maybe something in my browser, though no other sites seem affected. Oh well, probably something transient then. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/7 "2022-01-13T18:31:44Z")
Check Task Manager to see if something else is running that might interfere. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/8 "2022-01-13T18:36:30Z")
I’ve been on and off since early this morning and it has run fine for me. At least 7 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/9 "2022-01-13T19:24:50Z")
I remember when the SDMB used to be painfully slow, prior to Discourse. (And also completely down sometimes but that’s a different issue.) Nothing like that today though. Or any other day since Discourse. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/10 "2022-01-13T20:00:57Z")
It settled down to about 15 seconds to load a page. Restarting browser didn’t help, restarting Windows didn’t help. But now after about half an hour, it’s fine. Gremlins, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/11 "2022-01-13T20:05:16Z")
I haven’t noticed any lag today. I suppose it could be some sort of network issue between your location and the SDMB server. If you open up a command prompt and type “ping [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)” (without the quotes, of course) what do you get? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/12 "2022-01-13T20:05:26Z")
> [@Tierce](#): > > It settled down to about 15 seconds to load a page. Restarting browser didn’t help, restarting Windows didn’t help. But now after about half an hour, it’s fine. > > Gremlins, I guess. - Don’t feed your computer after midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/13 "2022-01-13T20:09:45Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > If you open up a command prompt and type “ping [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)” (without the quotes, of course) what do you get? Average ping time to [boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com) is 18ms. According to the Firefox status bar, the delays would occur while “Transferring data from [aws1.discourse-cdn.com](http://aws1.discourse-cdn.com)…”. But my average ping to that is only about 54ms, so it’s not the network, it’s the service on the server (if anything). ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/14 "2022-01-13T20:12:43Z")
I hate to be “that guy” but do ads show up for you? (As a Charter Member I’d expect they don’t, but I’m just asking in case.) If for some reason they are, I could see that causing the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/15 "2022-01-13T20:15:21Z")
Nope, no ads anywhere ever. Which is a very good thing. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/16 "2022-01-13T20:15:29Z")
If you are a Charter Member, you shouldn’t see ads on the SDMB (you will see them on the main Straight Dope page though,that page doesn’t care about your membership status). The membership system is kinda borked at the moment, but the part about not seeing ads should be working, or at least it was a few months ago. Members should not see ads either. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/17 "2022-01-13T20:21:08Z")
Have you tried rebooting? Sometimes i get one or two apps that are misbehaving, and rebooting my computer cleans up whatever the problem was. ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/18 "2022-01-13T20:36:55Z")
Yes (see post #9). Didn’t help at the time. But as of now, things seem to have resolved. Apparently a temporary slowdown on the server. When it was at its worst, it seemed like a database lock kind of thing. I would load two or three SDMB pages in separate tabs, starting them several seconds apart, but they would all time out simultaneously. I’ll update this thread if the problem occurs again (hopefully it won’t). ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/19 "2022-01-13T20:42:58Z")
Ah, i didn’t read “restarting Windows” as “rebooting the computer”, but i guess that’s what you meant. Sorry. Fwiw, it’s been fine for me all day. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739/20 "2022-01-13T21:37:28Z")
It may not mean much, but were any other sites similarly affected? A Discourse slowdown has happened to me several times. It is sometimes due to a Discourse update for the site. It is sometimes due to a Windows update on my computer. And sometimes I couldn’t tell what caused it, and it just resolved on its own. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painfully-slow-today/957739.md?page=2)