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Constipated ARSE
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:14 pm
by Montey
Is anyone else finding that getting on to the ARSE forums runs incredibly slow recently?
For about the past week every now and then the response times for the ARSE forums have been pathetic. I have done all sorts of tests to determine whether its a bandwidth or system performance issue at my end, but when ARSE is slow to respond no other application or website is slow at the same time (or slow at all for that matter).
So has anyone else been experiencing content constipation with the ARSE recently?
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:22 pm
by Rots
Yep, am experiencing it now.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:06 am
by ysu
very often, indeed
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:06 am
by r8response
Add another one too that list
Edit: Just hitting the submit button to post takes 10-15 secs
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:14 am
by Big Kev
Almost certainly server side.
I find it goes through patches of fast and slow responses.
Our database is pretty big (300Mb) but we're well within the limits of our server package and the database integrity looks fine.
I've just re-optimised the database so see if that helps any.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:15 am
by ysu
if it's only posting which takes long, it could be the database a bit overloaded; it often materialises first via db writes getting slower..
Edit: it's not necessarily the size, it's how the tables are used; and it's what others maybe doing on the same server.
Edit2: since it's intermittent, I think it's others occasionally overloading it...by the way 300MB is not *that* big.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:18 am
by Big Kev
The board software we use is capable of databases 10x this size so it would be down to how the host server deals with it. More likely to be a congested server or one which is on its last legs. If it's the latter they should be aware of that and planning a move.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:38 am
by Montey
It's not just on submitting posts.
I think its more likely to be a general server load issue or a server side connectivity issue.
Kev: How much bandwidth does ARSE use each month (i.e. how many GB of data transfer)????
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:32 am
by Big Kev
Montey wrote:Kev: How much bandwidth does ARSE use each month (i.e. how many GB of data transfer)????
It's actually dropping oddly enough.
Code: Select all
Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
Jan 2009 2196 10387 261202 996746 10.15 GB
Feb 2009 2213 11006 278992 1006033 11.08 GB
Mar 2009 2295 12359 278668 952354 10.78 GB
Apr 2009 2592 13012 295636 1070541 10.82 GB
May 2009 2421 12311 249014 864721 9.17 GB
Jun 2009 2542 12236 273274 1168385 10.49 GB
Jul 2009 2170 11667 263932 1128234 10.07 GB
Aug 2009 2472 11888 245997 980495 9.28 GB
Sep 2009 2458 12249 271295 977061 10.47 GB
Oct 2009 2387 11811 238353 743465 8.67 GB
Nov 2009 2375 11683 312282 967052 6.28 GB
Dec 2009 2838 12244 270514 917628 4.87 GB
Jan 2010 3086 13239 317836 955033 6.14 GB
Feb 2010 2955 12588 315952 980742 5.80 GB
Mar 2010 3936 15596 363880 1124798 7.10 GB
Apr 2010 5071 15609 292116 880163 6.18 GB
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:33 am
by w00dsy
i find it's worse late at night after about 9-10pm.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:49 pm
by petey
The other day it took a few attempts just to view a page on here ... so +1
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 12:01 am
by wabbit
Yep im getting this aswell, submitting a post or loading a topic.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 8:19 am
by norbs
Pix asked me the other day if it was slow here. I haven't had it happen yet. Keep the reports coming if it is still slow.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 9:08 am
by petey
Definitely seems to slow during somewheres peak hour. Last night it was getting quite bad but atm its fine.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 10:05 am
by KNAPPO
Yeah ive had it being slow over the last few days as well. BUT...... this morning when ive gone to the index page ive noticed on two seperate occasions so far, ads that have appeared ABOVE the ARSE banner........ If i notice it again ill take a screenshot.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 10:15 am
by wabbit
petey wrote:Definitely seems to slow during somewheres peak hour. Last night it was getting quite bad but atm its fine.
that's the same for me.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 10:18 am
by kwijibo
Yeah it was very slow last night
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 10:19 am
by w00dsy
KNAPPO wrote:Yeah ive had it being slow over the last few days as well. BUT...... this morning when ive gone to the index page ive noticed on two seperate occasions so far, ads that have appeared ABOVE the ARSE banner........ If i notice it again ill take a screenshot.
ads? WTF? We don't have ads. That's the whole point of the donations. I'd love to see a screenie to see where they come from.
I have found this last week it's terrible after 11pm but fine almost all the time before then.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 11:55 am
by KNAPPO
w00dsy wrote:ads? WTF? We don't have ads. That's the whole point of the donations. I'd love to see a screenie to see where they come from.
WTF Ads on ARSE....jpg
This one said "your IP has been selected as a potential winner" the ones i got this morning said "You have won an LCD TV" and was one of those red flashing seziure style ads...
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 11:56 am
by norbs
Might have to get Kev to see if we have been hacked.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 12:16 pm
by w00dsy
has anyone else seen these ads? Just wondering if it's a forum thing or a Knappo thing. Stu are you running an adblocker at all? I might switch mine off today and see if i see them.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 12:27 pm
by KNAPPO
Might be a Knappo thing. I was running FF3 in XP and never got an issue with Ads on ARSE but i switched over to Win7 this week and yesterday I moved ISP's to Internode. This morning was the first time ive ever noticed an ad on ARSE, last night it was fine whilst on Node. I just grabbed a FF3 addon for blocking ads and ill let you guys know if it pops up again.
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 12:44 pm
by KNAPPO
ARSE Ad 1.jpg
ARSE Ad 2.jpg
ARSE Ad 3.jpg
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 1:38 pm
by w00dsy
Knappo that adblock plus filter looks totally different to mine. It looks like you've somehow got
scanmedios on your pc. Here's my Adblock Plus
Re: Constipated ARSE
Posted: Sat May 01, 2010 1:40 pm
by kwijibo
I turned off adblock, and I'm not getting any ads