Is it just me, or has the response gotten slow again? It seems to take up to 20 secs for a response to any link on the site.
ETA: And just after posting this, that went away. Am I missing something?
Is it just me, or has the response gotten slow again? It seems to take up to 20 secs for a response to any link on the site.
ETA: And just after posting this, that went away. Am I missing something?
But no more TLS issues, or static file delivery issues.
It's just temporary increases in PhP execution time. Since it's still Apache, it also mean cpu is not maxed out on all web server hosts.
So it's a either a lag within the infrastructure (memcached or mySQL) or a configuration issue with the load balancer.
I...have no idea what language you are typing.
I just know response is slow...yes, I cleared cookies and cache...but, no total time outs like last week.
Sometimes it's super fast (basically instantaneous) but then, suddenly, every page takes 3-5 seconds to start loading. Then it's really fast again. Can't find anything consistent about the slow times.
I've seen the same thing off and on for the past several days, and not always when linking to SOL's site. It appears to me to be an outside influence in addition to the problems Lazeez is fixing.
Same here, sometimes very fast, other times very slow, almost to the point of a time-out.
Same here, sometimes very fast, other times very slow,
Me too. For the Forum. I've only been on the Forum.
I had a couple of odd occurrences, and thought I'd mention them.
1) When I clicked Post for the above post, I didn't get a Refresh button. SB's post appeared, but not mine. I retyped my post, clicked Post and got a Refresh button and refreshed the screen. I got both of my posts. ????
2) Then I opened and started to read a story. I opened the story from my Library. It opened displaying the newly posted chapter instead of the last read chapter as I have it configured to do. I've had this happen before. Then while I was reading the story, with my cursor positioned in the middle of the screen, the display switched to the previous screen (my Library). ????
I've noticed posts taking extended times to appear on the forum. One of mine was referenced immediately in the threads headings but took 14 minutes until the actual post was available to read. Someone else's took 12 minutes. This was after the server rebuild.
AJ
1) When I clicked Post for the above post, I didn't get a Refresh button. SB's post appeared, but not mine. I retyped my post, clicked Post and got a Refresh button and refreshed the screen. I got both of my posts. ????
That happened to me the other day.
We're still tweaking the new system's configurations. I made a couple of changes today that seem to be helping. Please let me know how it is behaving on your system currently.
It has been a little slow for me today. But that may not be SOL. Its slow when I go to other sites also .
Please let me know how it is behaving on your system currently.
I just got back online. The Forum is slow. When I clicked on "reply" just now it took a while for this box to come up. The other stuff I'm doing is also slow.
Noticeably slower for me today, and sporadically for the last few. Thought maybe it was another dos at first.
Don't you just love Da Interwebs?
Clicked post to post the above. Got a Refresh button and clicked it. Indications showed post was being submitted to server. DWN's post appeared but not mine. Refresh button still present. Clicked it again and my post appeared.
Very slow at the moment. Was slow on and off yesterday as well.
I never experienced the previous SSL handshake slowdown issues.
Yeah, that's because I turned off https on most of SOL.
Isn't that an undesirable trade-off? Personally, I could live with slow page loads if I had to.
Isn't that an undesirable trade-off? Personally, I could live with slow page loads if I had to.
You may put up with it for the 'secure' badge, but a lot of others don't. Whenever it slows down, traffic starts dropping off.
The hourly traffic dropped more than 25% from noon till I turned https off. Then it started climbing up again after the switch.
The pages that need it like the log in page and subscription and mail are still encrypted. Listings and stories aren't.
You can simply switch to https on your own. Just add the 's'. It doesn't force you to non-secure, well except for chapters, it will go to http from the index page to a chapter.
Well, I'm not convinced by the TLS issue.
Before the total slow down on both static and dynamic page, there was a slow down by PhP with no increase of TLS handshake timing.
My understanding is:
Step 1: Increased processing time of php page due to latencies (DB/cache/API/?) with response time 4-10 sec
Step 2: Apache process exhaustion -> static file and TLS handshake are now slow too.
The only odd thing is why removing TLS/SSL improve the situation!
The only idea I have on the subject would be that your page build process would make http request to your server. That's common if you implemented a REST API, but it could be as simple as a readfile on an http url forced to https.
If some framework internal request are forced to https that would result in huge connection latencies which would explain why removing https resolve your problem.
That is also easy to diagnose, just compare the page php execution time of a server on http and a server which convert http to https. If the time are not identical you have a framework issue.
Edit:
I've timed the execution time on http vs https, on storiesonline.net/d/All on 6 calls there is no significant difference. when removing blocking and TLS handshake delay. So my potential explanation may be wrong, but there was no forcing http to https on that test.
Anyway, wathever the cause of your latencies are, I would recommend:
- nginx: because it won't exhaust the processes.
- http2 because it reduce the number of handshake.
http2 might help. We'll see.
For now, more tweaks and back to full https. How is it working? for now on my end everything seems very quick.
For now, more tweaks and back to full https. How is it working?
I'm on the Forum and it's fast.
Some pages still slow (like getting the edit window on the forum), other pages back to normal.
One thing that stood out: when getting an authors story list the story page appeared just a little slow but it took several more seconds before the green "not read" bullets and green "downloaded" arrows appeared.
Well, finestories is around 4200ms, sol is around 250ms.
If it's all the same, maybe on index issues. Possibly related to the flag/read or a remnant of your isp slowpoke protections.
Here, very responsive.
Finestories main page, very slow. Recent top stories, very slow. Authors & other links slow, then while checking other links, very responsive for a few clicks, then back to slow.
While clicking on a letter under Authors link, slow. When clicking on letters after that, some slow, some fast, then all fast.
Go back to main page, very slow. Back to Authors page, slow, click on letter, slow. Click on other letter links, some slow, some fast, then all fast again.
Reviews link, very slow. Blogs link, very slow- Clicking on blog or post link, very slow.
Here, still very responsive.
ScifiStories home page, slow.
Authors link & letter links, very responsive. Reviews link, very slow. Blogs link, very slow- Clicking on blog or post link, very slow.
After doing that, Finestories was very responsive when I went back there, for a few clicks, then back to previous very slow/slow behaviour with some parts becoming fast, but reverting to slow after going back to slow main page.
Going back to ScifiStorties, Home page now very slow, Authors link now slow, letter links now slow & fast like Finestories letter links.
Here, still very responsive.
I don't remember it being mentioned, so I'm going to ask. Could it possibly be a hardware problem?
I'm thinking a disk drive getting flaky causing intermittent excessive read times.
Have browser setup to dump cookies when I log off, site is running fine now.
I am logging off at least once a day, or whenever away from computer for more than an hour.
don't know why, but today Fine Stories has taken almost twice as long to respond as SoL and SciFi has.
I also see Finestories load slower than SOL, using the link form the home page, and SciFi-Stories does not auto-logon using the same link. That seems odd.
For me the home page SOL Link to FineStories & Scifi both trigger the autologon correctly.
Note that while those three website share a login database, and the Home Links migrate the login status, there is no SSO (Single Sign On) like OAuth, so the login status are independent and log in/out of one site doesn't log you in/out of the others.
More servers tweaks. Please let me know how it's working for you. After the previous tweak I saw fast performance but got reports of slow performance, especially on other domains.
Let me know if it's slow for you or not.
I entered a reply to a forum post and clicked on 'post'. The message 'connecting to server' came up, so I switched windows back to a story I was reading. Twenty minutes later I checked back and it was still 'connecting to server'. I canceled then tried again, same result. I realised I had four SOL windows open so I closed a couple in case the two session limit was still in place. Same result. Then after another twenty minutes or so I tried yet again and my post was there like shit off a shovel.
AJ
The message 'connecting to server' came up
One of the tweaks disabled the backend processing of forum posts. It took few minutes to figure it out.
shit off a shovel
Never heard that expression before. Shit is sticky, so slow?
Damn it!
Never heard that expression before. Shit is sticky, so slow?
I apologise for not responding earlier (have to sleep sometime), but @richardshagrin is correct - 'shit off a shovel' means very fast.
AJ
shit off a shovel
"Very Fast.
In the days when trains had a driver and a fireman to load coal and it was necessary to answer a call of nature you would shit on the coal shovel and then throw it in the fire as quick as possible because of smell and hygiene. As the shovel had coal dust on it, the shit did not stick. Interestingly the same shovel could be cleaned with steam and could be used to cook bacon and eggs."
You can find a lot of things on-line.