ASF site slow recently?

[Joe Blow]

thanks joe all fixed and nice and quick , onya

No problems.

Has anyone observed any noticable improvement in site performance since the server upgrade last night?

Would be interested in any feedback.

It sure seems faster to me.

 

[nunthewiser]

yes the lagging on typing posts has dissapeared, all sweet

 

[Wysiwyg]

Has anyone observed any noticable improvement in site performance since the server upgrade last night?

Would be interested in any feedback.

It sure seems faster to me.

Yes Joe, everything scrolling along smoothly.





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[disarray]

That's impractical, disarray. Need Flash for other uses.
Doesn't seem reasonable to do anything like that when the problem is absolutely only occurring on ASF. Every other site is 100%.

Flash is just a plug-in, when you clobber it then the next time you access a site it will prompt you to reinstall a (probably more recent) version. it is entirely reasonable that there is a flash version mismatch on your pc and the advertisement on ASF, but what would i know? it's not like its my job or anything. still, as long as it works everyone is happy.

 

[Julia]

No problems.

Has anyone observed any noticable improvement in site performance since the server upgrade last night?

Would be interested in any feedback.

It sure seems faster to me.

Very much better, Joe. Many thanks.

 

[Whiskers]

Still freezing up for me mainly when I go to "Preview Post".

I've put in a bigger new hard drive and today doubled the size of my cpu, been around a few sites including ebay without a problem... until I went to preview a post here. CPU goes from 3 to 4% idle to flat lining at 100%. Sometimes it crashes IE 7... tried firefox earlier, but same issues.

I think it started awhile ago when I updated flash from a link here and I've had problems freezing, browser crashing and with flash since.

Flash is just a plug-in, when you clobber it then the next time you access a site it will prompt you to reinstall a (probably more recent) version. it is entirely reasonable that there is a flash version mismatch on your pc and the advertisement on ASF, but what would i know? it's not like its my job or anything. still, as long as it works everyone is happy.

Dissaray, do you suggest using an alternative of some sort to flash?

 

[disarray]

no, just an updated version of it. all sorts of stuff hooks into your browser, activex controls, toolbars, quick launchers etc. software is constantly tweaked and updated and version inconsistencies or buggy software can be a common source of browser slowness / crashing / whathaveyou. microsoft has released buggy updates from time to time that have caused all sort of havoc, so adobe, google or any other web software company isn't immune from releasing bad code.

if you are using ie7 go tools - internet options - programs tab - manage add-ons and look at how much outside stuff is plugged into your browser. you can disable them in there if you want.

check your flash version

CPU goes from 3 to 4% idle to flat lining at 100%

right click on the grey taskbar down the very bottom of the screen and select TASK MANAGER. click on the PROCESSES tab. this is all the stuff running in the background on your computer. you'll see image name, user name, cpu and mem usage. click on CPU to sort it descending, you'll probably see system idle process at 99ish.

now start ie and replicate the problem. pay attention to cpu and note down what process starts eating all the cpu. if its iexplore thats ie so start disabling plug ins. if its something else, google it.

 

[Julia]

All is fine this evening, but I gave up in frustration this morning because of continued slowness and freezing up. The heading and the top advertisements come up quickly but then there is a large time lag before the rest of the page fills. Then everytime I tried to change pages, the egg timer appeared and there was another long wait.

 

[Whiskers]

no, just an updated version of it. all sorts of stuff hooks into your browser, activex controls, toolbars, quick launchers etc. software is constantly tweaked and updated and version inconsistencies or buggy software can be a common source of browser slowness / crashing / whathaveyou. microsoft has released buggy updates from time to time that have caused all sort of havoc, so adobe, google or any other web software company isn't immune from releasing bad code.

if you are using ie7 go tools - internet options - programs tab - manage add-ons and look at how much outside stuff is plugged into your browser. you can disable them in there if you want.

check your flash version



right click on the grey taskbar down the very bottom of the screen and select TASK MANAGER. click on the PROCESSES tab. this is all the stuff running in the background on your computer. you'll see image name, user name, cpu and mem usage. click on CPU to sort it descending, you'll probably see system idle process at 99ish.

now start ie and replicate the problem. pay attention to cpu and note down what process starts eating all the cpu. if its iexplore thats ie so start disabling plug ins. if its something else, google it.

That seems to have done the trick, disarray... thanks.

 

[Whiskers]

That seems to have done the trick, disarray... thanks.

Nope, spoke too soon.

I had about 15 add-on's, disabled them all and the site worked fine, tried video on CNN...just activated flash it worked fine... whereas the video there crashed me previously.

Had to activate java for charts this morning and back to where we were before.

Julia, are you having problems in ie6 or 7?

Are most of the problems in Qld?

Could there be interference in the telstra network?

 

[Julia]

Hi Whiskers,

IE6. Decided to stay with it after hearing about many problems with IE7.

 

[disarray]

so you activated flash and it was fine, then when you activated java it started causing problems? if so then the problem could very well be java. uninstall it through add / remove programs and grab the latest version from
the SUN site. we're working on a process of elimination here - tech support is about determining what the problem isn't until you are left with what the problem is.

julia ie7 really is a good step up from ie6. its been around for a while so a lot of problems / holes have been patched - i recommend you upgrade to it. have you been running your microsoft updates as well? you can get IE7 through microsoft update or the microsoft site

 

[Whiskers]

By george, I think I fixed it.

:bananasmi:bananasmi:bananasmi:bananasmi:bananasmi

I started deleting and reloading Java as you said disarray, and for some reason it didn't reload properly... started following their check list and found that my temp internet file disk space was over the max. I deleted the temp files and it reset to the max automatically, but I sized down to 250MB and given it a good work out ripping around a few threads and copying the screen shot while I had the page open and it hasn't missed a beat.

Have a look at the size of your temp internet files Julia.

 

[Julia]

OK Whiskers. Thanks. I've changed it and we'll see if it makes any difference.
Has been working fast and perfectly this evening anyway. The problem seems to occur mid morning.

 

[Whiskers]

Late last night I reduced the temp internet file size further to 100 and changed the ' Check for newer versions' update from auto to 'every time I visit a new site'.

When deleting and reloading Java I noticed a temp file setting there (control Panel, Java, Temp Internet files) and reduced that from max to 250.

Been loged in all day today, no problems seems to be running a bit better still. The only difference I've noticed is the avatar's take a little longer to load.

Makes me wonder how those settings got so far outside max range when I've never touched them before and I've totally reloaded a new hard drive only a couple of weeks ago.

Any advice on how to tell the best setting for these?

 

[Julia]

Yes, I'd also like to know this. After your suggestion and useful screen shots last night, Whiskers, I looked at mine. 1150. I have no idea how or why it came to be that. But then I am technologically a luddite.

Reduced it to 250 as you suggested, and certainly everything is going very well today.

Many thanks for the suggestion.

 

[disarray]

by default ie reserves 10% of your drive space for cache / temporary internet files, all it holds is cookies and gifs and little coded object thingys for quicker retrieval. but drives are huge now (you can buy a TERABYTE drive for $300) so 10% of a standard drive is still a lot of space.

windows recommends 50-250mb.