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fader6818 · January 20, 2008

This should be fixed now. It appears as if the network card glitched and was corrupting every third packet or so... This mean information going in and out of DM was being corrupted and it took extra time to work around it.

I restarted the server and it underwent an integrity check, everything seems good for now and I've got my eye on it. The downtime of 10 minutes was that integrity check, not a sign of impending failure. :)

Lanthirrhos · January 20, 2008

*laughs* :) Well i doubted it was complete impending failure ;) just a pain to try and keep on top of stuff when you can't get on all day :P hehe as I said, well done :) didn't even notice the 10 minutes here

JenniferL · January 21, 2008

We're still experiencing some slowness. Matalina thinks one of our ads is on a slow server. They're working on it. But the dead crawl should be over now.

Kivam · January 21, 2008

There was a problem earlier, but it's been fixed. In the future, if you have an issue, instead of insulting, try emailing the help desk or just, you know, being patient.

Works for most normal people.

Still excruciatingly slow for me

Barmacral · January 21, 2008

Its been working in spurts for me, right now its working, though it may not be by the end of this post.

Alys Kinch · January 21, 2008

i've been waiting a good 3-5 minutes per page load.

Shendare · January 21, 2008

Yeah, I've noticed that when it stalls for me (about 50% of page views), the full page has actually loaded off the server (I can view the HTML source and see the whole page is there, from <html> to </html>), but nothing is displaying while the browser waits for other page components to load.

My guess is that one or more ad components is having sporadic issues, and because of the HTML Table-based layout used by the forum theme, the browser can't render the page until those components download. Often while the browser just sits there, the status bar says something like "Reading pagead2.googlesyndication.com..." or "Waiting for www.assoc-amazon.com...".

My guess also infers that refreshing the page makes the ad component choose a different ad, and if you get one that works that time, you see the page. If it tries to load another that won't work, it hangs again, waiting for another refresh or until it gives up after a few minutes of waiting.

This, of course, is after the user has waited for the server to respond to the page request, which seems to take quite some time for some users at peak hours. I've waited nearly a minute for a page to start loading off the server before, then another couple of minutes if it doesn't feel like displaying right away once it loads. Needless to say, I've also gotten into the habit of opening several posts into different tabs and doing something else for a minute while they try to load.

*shrug* Hope it's something that can be fixed without too much trouble, but if not, hey, at least the pages load sometimes, and for that I'm appreciative.

Lanthirrhos · January 21, 2008

Yeah I can pretty much say the same as everyone here lol, except the refreshing never goes any faster for me... but its definitely back to its slow self again >:( *pokes Dm/ads/server/whatever* :D

Alys Kinch · January 21, 2008

it's not the page change that's taking time for me, shen. its always waiting for everything to render, which i assume, makes you right about it being ads. which is what kath said mat thinks it is.

Emperor · January 21, 2008

I don't understand all the fuss... she gave it two thumbs up...

Vanion · January 21, 2008

As the owner of the Black Tower Org's servers, I say, "HA!!!" Our site and spam boards are never slow!!! *Does the victory dance!!*

JenniferL · January 21, 2008

We've narrowed it down to the ads, I think. We're still working on it.

the dude · January 21, 2008

you know what else works when the site's slow or down? 8)

going and doing something else for a couple hours. :P

let's all take it easy, folks. i reckon it'll be fixed shortly. to those who are already doing so, you can ignore this statement. ;D

HotW Moiraine · January 21, 2008

I don't understand all the fuss... she gave it two thumbs up...

Yea, I don't get it either.

Jelly · January 21, 2008

going and doing something else for a couple hours. :P

But...I love Dragonmount...

the dude · January 21, 2008

we all do, man, we all do.

but when you love something, you set it free. if it doesn't come back, it was never truly yours. :P

Shendare · January 21, 2008

I do notice it running much better now.

A round for the admins!

Barmacral · January 21, 2008

And that philosophy explains why he goes through so many cats.

JenniferL · January 21, 2008

we all do, man, we all do.

but when you love something, you set it free. if the boards don't load, it was never truly yours. :P

the dude · January 21, 2008

And that philosophy explains why he goes through so many cats.

that and my love for home-made chinese food.

eclipse0 · January 21, 2008

you know what else works when the site's slow or down? 8)

going and doing something else for a couple hours. :P

let's all take it easy, folks. i reckon it'll be fixed shortly. to those who are already doing so, you can ignore this statement. ;D

Spoken like the true Dude...

Fekk it Dude, lets go bowling!

January 21, 2008

Things are a little slow at times but it's always worth coming here. love dragonmount and if you do not leave and let those of us who are here enjoy it

the dude · January 21, 2008

you know what else works when the site's slow or down? 8)

going and doing something else for a couple hours. :P

let's all take it easy, folks. i reckon it'll be fixed shortly. to those who are already doing so, you can ignore this statement. ;D

Spoken like the true Dude...

Fekk it Dude, lets go bowling!

i'm there. ;D

Lanthirrhos · January 21, 2008

*laughs* no one is really making that big a fuss about it... not here anyways :) we're just letting people know what is going on so they can get ideas on how to fix it... :) but ascribing people to leave because they don't enjoy the boards being slow is counterproductive... especially seeing as how they are ofter MORE than slow and refuse to work at all, so then we go do something else as Dude says ;) But we like it here so it bothers us that it doesn't work a third of the time. :) don't go telling people to leave just for that, Lee... :-\

HotW Moiraine · January 21, 2008

Things are a little slow at times but it's always worth coming here. love dragonmount and if you do not leave and let those of us who are here enjoy it

I've been here since you were pooping your pants.

I joined last week.

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