stardot running slow?

[james]

Hello

Is it just me or is stardot a bit treacly at the moment? It’s taking around 7 seconds or so for any new page to open.

Edit: just to confirm the rest of the internet seems fine

[danielj]

Yes - not sure what's going on yet

[BeebMaster]

I blame the Russians. Fancy them having a go at us at the same time as the air traffic control.

[james]

Too many NMIs? Seem good again now!

[danielj]

Naughty bots indexing away - BaZ be on it! We've told a few of them to do one.

[james]

It’s gone a bit treacly again. Though less sticky than before

[rmbrowngr]

Yep, running quite slow this evening. Posted twice by mistake because of this.

[Ronin47]

I was about to start a new thread when I saw this, it's certainly running slow for me with pages taking upwards of 10s to open and new posts taking equally long.

[Rob_hawk]

Similar for me this morning with about a 10 second lag to load a post. Committing this one took around 30 seconds.

[MillieTD83]

Ok who ported the entire forum to tape.

[vanekp]

it indeed has and still is taking over 10sec to load a page for the last few days.

[leenew]

Just to report that bbcmicro.co.uk is just as treacly...

Lee.

[vanekp]

a tracert has some long delays

oops 1st one was as point out the wrong site this does not look bad.

[IanS]

a tracert has some long delays
stardot.jpg

Wrong hostname, try it with ".uk" on the end.

[sweh]

Just to weigh in... last night the MB Index failed to rebuild properly because it didn't successfully pull all the ZIP files.

So, to reduce overnight load, I'm going to disable the cron job rebuilds this. Hopefully the site will stabilise soon and I can re-enable the job, but until then I don't want to make things worse.

[Louis.m]

Yes, me too *. slow

At first I thought I was the only one because I had problems before.
See: viewtopic.php?t=27414
Luckily I found this thread, now I don't feel so lonesome anymore .

Some *. pages even remain completely empty

[Rich Talbot-Watkins]

Honestly a lot of bots in the forums at the moment. Right now I see Ahrefs [Bot], Bing [Bot], Bytespider [Bot], Google [Bot], GPTBot [Bot], Majestic-12 [Bot], PetalBot [Bot], Semrush [Bot] and YandexBot [Bot].

Don't know what half of them are, but it'd be good to sort out the bot group permissions a bit if they're dragging things down.

[baz4096]

Something is bogging down the Apache process. Restarting it gives a temporary reprieve, but I'm looking into what's causing it.
The bots really aren't hammering the site as much as the "currently online" suggests. Something else is amiss I'm afraid. I'll keep looking into it and if necessary restart the apache service when things get slow, at least until we can figure out exactly what's going on.

[james]

Thank you for your ongoing investigations and support!

[Rob_hawk]

Thank you for your ongoing investigations and support!

I’ll second that.

[Louis.m]

Thank you for your ongoing investigations and support!

I’ll second that.

Me 2

[Louis.m]

Hé, a minute ago a thunderbolt stroke near where I live and now *. loading speed is as fast like it used to be, probably no correlation here but . . .

[baz4096]

Hé, a minute ago a thunderbolt stroke near where I live and now *. loading speed is as fast like it used to be, probably no correlation here but . . .

A thunderbolt near you and a keypress near me I suspect the keystroke had more to do with it, unless you subscribe to chaos theory

[Louis.m]

A thunderbolt near you and a keypress near me I suspect the keystroke had more to do with it, unless you subscribe to chaos theory

Thunderstroke or keystroke, anyway, let's hope the result lasts .
Thanks for chasing the bugs away

[vanekp]

Site seems back to normal again now, thanks to all involved

[guesser]

A thunderbolt near you and a keypress near me I suspect the keystroke had more to do with it, unless you subscribe to chaos theory

There's a large butterfly that keeps landing on the other side of my window with a thud this past week or two which is a bit startling, but I've not noticed any particular correlation with website speeds

[BigEd]

Code: Select all

*TAPE 12

usually speeds things up a bit. Well done Baz!

[baz4096]

Thanks everyone, but I've not managed to find the issue yet. Please do post in here if the site starts running slow again.

[Rich Talbot-Watkins]

Have you tried pressing the Turbo button on the server?

[vanekp]