Performance Monitoring

[Theo Gottwald]

Today when we had 26 Guests and 4 Users online, i experienced a bit longer loading times.
We are monitoring this also trying to find out where the bottleneck could be.

For this, I would like to ask our Forum Members to write here their Forum-Performance experinces.

At what time, do you have which performance?
If possible add "how many users / guests" are online (is shown at the bottom of the starting page).

Actually while ia m writing this we are at about 20 users and i have optimal performance.

[Paul Elliott]

13 guests & 2 users

had a long stall trying to get to forums from main page.
2-3 minutes then I reloaded main page and tried again.
got a server busy message.
went back to main page & tried again.
5-10 second delay then the forum page came up.

it happened  around 12:43pm.

[Patrice Terrier]

13 guests, 4 users (1 hidden)

At 14.01 pm, i had to wait 25 seconds before i could log in.

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[Haim Jamer]

10 Guests, 3 Users (1 Hidden)
Took me about a minute to log on.
Haim

[Cho Sing Kum]

Forum speed is not consistent. Sometime very fast, sometime very slow, sometime in between.

Some screenshots:

Edit to add:
gif filenames are GMT+8 so you know when they were taken.

[Cho Sing Kum]

In the last screenshot 2012-01-21_124753, it shows the progress bar still loading something even when the "Page created in 0.124 seconds..." is shown. Somethings are still being loaded and not necessary 1 item because this can be repeated with another 1 or more items. This is normal as you can see in many websites.

The point to note is that the "Page created in 0.124 seconds..." thing may not be correct result and may have been longer.

[Theo Gottwald]

Interesting Test-Link:

http://www.webpagetest.org/

You can test with different locations and browsers.

PS: Did some changes today. Keep reports coming please.

[Cho Sing Kum]

I have some mix results. Got a time-out from Sydney. Also tested from Frankfurt as that should be the nearest to your server. Got a relatively long "time to first byte":

Frankfurt
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120121_N0_2YG9C/

Sydney
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120121_N1_2YG7H/

London
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120121_0H_2YG7B/

NY
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120121_MY_2YG4J/

Singapore
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120121_D4_2YG6T/

As this is intermittent, when I next have problem accessing your forum I will do another test.

[Raymond Leech]

Eastern US time (gmt-5)
0125 Just under 30 seconds to load forum home page, click on performance thread and come up instantly

1435 forum page came up instantly, performance thread took 45 seconds to load

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120121_Q1_2YNEB/1/details/

Hope this helps

[Theo Gottwald]

Ok, thanks all for your reports.

FROM NOW, please only report in case of performance problems.

[Paul Elliott]

Theo,

No real problem with performance but someone keeps changing my karma points.
Up & down and with no posts by me.

Is the site still being hacked? I've had a few times where it took a long time to bring up
the forum ( it said it took over 30 seconds to create the page ) but I figured that
most of the delays I'm seeing were on my end ( these times it took around 0.1 seconds
to create the page ).

[José Roca]

The DOS attack stopped time ago, when I put the forum in maintenance mode for a while.

I can't know who is playing with the karmas because this action it's not logged. Abuses like this only lead to restrictions, such disabling it. I have deleted your smites.

[Paul Elliott]

Something odd is going on with my karma. It's gone up 4 points since my last post.

I think I"ll just ignore it. It doesn't seem that anyone is changing it based on my posts.

When I first came to the forum a few minutes ago  it took over 54 seconds to build the page.
And there were only 12 guests active.
I think that makes it about 5pm your time so maybe the rest of the server was busy.

[Patrice Terrier]

Yep, still very hieratic.

...

[Paul Elliott]

Your time February 25 02:10am. 

Very slow.  Took 69 seconds to create the initial Forum page.
103 seconds to create the next page.
58 seconds to create a 3rd page.
Strange but only 0.2 seconds to create this page.

Seems like something is still hogging the server.