ASF site slow recently?

[Col Lector]

Col, are you referring to the fact that you can only do one site search every 30 seconds?

I set it at 30 seconds due to the heavy load searching places on the server. I have reduced it to 15 seconds for the moment but if I find it is having a negative impact on performance I will put it back to 30 seconds.

Twas what I referring to. But the warning was being triggered when I had just moved to the site and done a first push on the "quick links tab"

Site seems much faster this morning...my bet is that some of the more elaborate banner ads are the culprit...in that they play havoc with memory...& that this is heightened when more applications are open simultaneously.

 

[Julia]

Joe, I've just about gone nuts trying to send a PM in the last 15 minutes. Couldn't get the preview screen up and then couldn't return to typed text.

 

[gwm]

Over the last few days my cpu usage goes excessively high (greater than 90%) with respect to the IExplore.exe that is applicable to ASF

This has happened on two computers and basically locks up processing until the CPU usage drops back to a normal level - merely using the vertical slide bar impacts the ASF IExplore.exe cpu usage in such a manner

 

[Joe Blow]

Hi all,

I am getting in contact with the host and see if they can figure out what is going on.

 

[Joe Blow]

Anyone noticing any improvement?

 

[gwm]

still getting occasional 90% plus CPU usage on the IExplore process on ASF -site - will check from another computer - watching it as I type tho it seems to have settled to normal drain (less than 10%) on the CPU

 

[SevenFX]

still getting occasional 90% plus CPU usage on the IExplore process on ASF -site - will check from another computer - watching it as I type tho it seems to have settled to normal drain (less than 10%) on the CPU

GWM, you may have some other issues local to your machines or site, as this is not the norm, nor would ASF latency cause this sort of problem on your usage to your CPU.

Definetly not the case here, as 1%-3% being the norm for web browsing with many tabs & windows open.

Cheers
SevenFX

 

[SevenFX]

SevenFX

Thank you - it only does it on ASF and two different computers - it has only just started the last couple of days and as Julia has reported as you type the cursor "locks up" and in my case the CPU usage with respect to the IExplore that is running ASF goes to 98% and then drops back to the "norm" and you can start typing again - it continues to do so whilst I was typing this

This is such a broad shot to pinpoint whats causing it, from flat batteries in wireless keyboard causing lag, to worm, older spec machine, antispyware,antivirus running in background or moderate to high local network traffic or maybe a combination of the above GWM.

To add to these issues it's also peak hour on the net, so all the little kiddies will be refillin their ipods right about now.

The are so many members on ASF (prob 98%)that are not having significiant problems, otherwise they would be posting here at a guess.

I'd say you need to eliminate them one by one, or bring in a fresh machine/notebook till you isolate the problem.

SevenFX

 

[xyzedarteerf]

Anyone noticing any improvement?

overall page load has improved slightly, it was slower a few days ago.

 

[Jaybee]

I have had the same problem for the last two days. The site just seems to freeze up for a minute or so then briefly comes good before "freezing" up again. Never noticed this problem before and is not happening on any other sites. It happened just now when I logged in 15 minutes ago.

 

[gwm]

Jaybee

can you see what the CPU usage is when it happens?

 

[disarray]

i've been getting a few people with browser slowness etc. and have noticed a problem with IE7 and google toolbar (especially on win2k machines). they might have released a bad update or something recently, either way i've been going through peoples Add / Remove programs and clearing out a lot of the stuff with web hooks and it makes life better.

look at your browser and see how many buttons and so on you have there. if you have rows of things like yahoo toolbar, google toolbar, plugins for acrobat or whatever else, most of your web browsing problems can be traced to one of these. there have also been some hassles with flash player versions as well.

best thing to do if your browser is sluggish is to go START - CONTROL PANEL - ADD / REMOVE PROGRAMS. go through that and uninstall google toolbar and yahoo toolbar and so on, then restart IE and see how it goes. as cool as google is their toolbar is still just a benign species of malware so the cleaner you keep your browser the better it will run.

 

[Wysiwyg]

I have had the same problem for the last two days. The site just seems to freeze up for a minute or so then briefly comes good before "freezing" up again. Never noticed this problem before and is not happening on any other sites.

Me too.

 

[gwm]

Disaray - have none of those toolbars

 

[nunthewiser]

gday joe and others . yeah a few of us in the chatroom were experiencing a few lag probs today , i personally wasnt but 3 other members were . will let ya know how it goes tommorow , have suggested a clearout of temp files etc and hopefully that will fix it .

 

[Stan 101]

Joe,

I've been timing out quite a bit in the last week when on the site. I had put it down to the wireless card that can be tempermental.
I'll do a tracert and direct ping next time (if) it happens and PM it to you..

cheers,

 

[Julia]

i've been getting a few people with browser slowness etc. and have noticed a problem with IE7 and google toolbar (especially on win2k machines). they might have released a bad update or something recently, either way i've been going through peoples Add / Remove programs and clearing out a lot of the stuff with web hooks and it makes life better.

look at your browser and see how many buttons and so on you have there. if you have rows of things like yahoo toolbar, google toolbar, plugins for acrobat or whatever else, most of your web browsing problems can be traced to one of these. there have also been some hassles with flash player versions as well.

best thing to do if your browser is sluggish is to go START - CONTROL PANEL - ADD / REMOVE PROGRAMS. go through that and uninstall google toolbar and yahoo toolbar and so on, then restart IE and see how it goes. as cool as google is their toolbar is still just a benign species of malware so the cleaner you keep your browser the better it will run.

If the browser was the problem, why is ASF the only site where there is a problem. I have absolutely no problem anywhere else.

 

[Julia]

Anyone noticing any improvement?

Yes, absolutely, Joe. I've just logged on, have sent a reply to a PM and accessed a couple of threads and it is 100%. Please make it stay like this, please!
Have you been able to sort out what the problem may have been?

 

[rub92me]

Experiencing page load problems/delays this morning - looks like it's the Google ads that take a long time to load?

 

[Whiskers]

I was having all the above problems too, right up till late this afternoon. Was getting very frustrating.

But all working normal again now.