MR forums SLOW

[jng]

It's about 12pm est right now and the forums are running REALLY slowly. It takes several seconds up to half a minute to load any single page.

There's about 3k users "online" right now. over 2.5k of which are "guests." An attack? or just crawlers slowing down the forum?

[edit]
N/m. As soon as I posted this. things started moving again...

[.Andy]

It's about 12pm est right now and the forums are running REALLY slowly. It takes several seconds up to half a minute to load any single page.

There's about 3k users "online" right now. over 2.5k of which are "guests." An attack? or just crawlers slowing down the forum?

[edit]
N/m. As soon as I posted this. things started moving again...

It's slow for me too (no avatars has sped it up). My guess is 2.5k guest iPhoners beating up the server :D. Be interesting to see how high users go as we near the end of the week.

[MacNut]

It's these blasted iPhone rumors that are slowing everything down.:mad:

[mad jew]

I've been having a bit of rouble just this last week with all the slow downs.

[Peace]

Brace yourself for iPhone Friday..

shudder......

[mattscott306]

Brace yourself for iPhone Friday..

shudder......

I wonder if the record set by WWDC '07 will be broken...

[Peace]

I wonder if the record set by WWDC '07 will be broken...

Probably..

HEY!! We should have a pool on how many people visit MR for the iPhone launch day :D

[mattscott306]

Probably..

HEY!! We should have a pool on how many people visit MR for the iPhone launch day :D
Winner gets a... new iPhone?

[Luis]

With the iPhone launch all previous records will be beaten! Don't doubt it.

[MacNut]

It's gonna be a good time to go on vacation and not have to deal with the iPhone hoopla.:) I think I will take the weekend off, and most of next week too.:cool:

[Aperture]

The forums are crawling for me, too. I'd imagine it's from the increased traffic for the iPhone. (well, obviously)

[Luis]

arn must better have a contingency plan for the well-being of MR, if the forums are crawling now, I don't even want to think on Friday. *Sigh* it is not even this way in MacWorld or WWDC...

[MacNut]

Seems fast for me right now.:confused:

[Luis]

Seems fast for me right now.:confused:

Occasionally it speeds up but it does tend to crawl a bit...

[Killyp]

Seems quite speedy at the moment, but it just gave me a database error a few minutes ago...

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Seems quite speedy at the moment, but it just gave me a database error a few minutes ago...One of these...?

77886

I've gotten quite a few of those the last quarter or so... :(

But now all seems to be well again... :)

[Killyp]

That's the guy! *points finger* he tried to stop me from getting into MR :mad:

[rdowns]

Happy iDay Everyone!!

WIth all the hype, I think some forum problems are to be expected throughout the weekend. Wait until all the people are uploading unpacking pics and reviews later today.

[psycoswimmer]

Yup, it is slowwwwwww.

There's over 5,500 people online right now, and Forum Spy refuses to work (server too busy).

[Zwhaler]

I agree the forums are slow, except I'm okay with it because Im on a 14mbps bandwith lol

[jng]

Well now that the iPhone is all done with. Hopefully things will be back to normal. :)

[Luis]

Well now that the iPhone is all done with. Hopefully things will be back to normal. :)

I don't really think we are exactly done with it...

[mad jew]

...And this place was never very normal, either.

[OutThere]

...And this place was never very normal, either.

True...'normal' is a very relative statement round these parts. :p

[luminosity]

I must say that I'm surprised that avatars and other non-essential stuff is still being used at the moment.

[4God]

Is it just me or do the forums seem real slow right now? Other sites work fine for me, just MR is slow.

[psycoswimmer]

They are a little sluggish but even Apple.com for me was slow... it could be my internet.

[Cassie]

Nope, working great for me, Even though it's raining. (We have satellite internet)

[4God]

Nope, working great for me, Even though it's raining. (We have satellite internet)

Really? I've tried resetting safari and still MR is the only site sluggish for me.

[bobber205]

Really? I've tried resetting safari and still MR is the only site sluggish for me.
Very slow for me too. I am getting lots of "Waiting" messages. Hasn't timed out yet. Kind of sucks. :D

This is on two different computers, one Windows one Mac.

[arn]

Forums are running ok on my side... so it must be a network issue somewhere in between.

Late in the week we actually finally made some changes that should prevent the forums from slowing down as much as they were... and stop locking out guests.

arn

[janey]

They are a little sluggish but even Apple.com for me was slow... it could be my internet.

Nope, not just you or your connection. For me it occasionally times out, most of the time it's loading part of the page for minutes on end.

[arn]

Nope, not just you or your connection. For me it occasionally times out, most of the time it's loading part of the page for minutes on end.

if you open the activity window in Safari, let me know what's taking so long to load.

arn

[janey]

if you open the activity window in Safari, let me know what's taking so long to load.

It changes a bit, but most of them originate from images.macrumors.com...many of the images (e.g. emoticons and editor icons) and some of the js and css files.

edit: the really odd part is that for a few minutes, everything will not load and time out, and then completely turn around and be all nice and fast again, and repeat.

[jellz]

ugh. it's been slow recently for me as well. I've gotten timed out a couple times already.

[megfilmworks]

It changes a bit, but most of them originate from images.macrumors.com...many of the images (e.g. emoticons and editor icons) and some of the js and css files.

edit: the really odd part is that for a few minutes, everything will not load and time out, and then completely turn around and be all nice and fast again, and repeat.

Same here, very sluggish, time outs and then a moment of speed. Thought it was my connection. but all other sites run as usual.

[MacNut]

It's slow for me too but part of that might be that Im currently on dial up.:o

[Sean Dempsey]

the problem I have is that pages don't load and just sit and timeout, or they work fine. I have to click a like 3, 4, 5 times before it loads. But when it finally loads, it loads fine. But, most links just time out.

And it's not my connection. It's just the macrumors site.

[psycoswimmer]

MR is working fine for me now, but Apple.com won't even load.

Edit: Scratch that. It took me 5 minutes to load this page to edit this.

[arn]

MR is working fine for me now, but Apple.com won't even load.

Edit: Scratch that. It took me 5 minutes to load this page to edit this.

If you can open "Activity" in safari and see what is causing the lag, it can help.

arn

[Sean Dempsey]

alot of it is .gif images in the /editor folder, and also in the /vb/smilies folder... images all over, mostly .gifs too. I can screenshot it next time if you want, but there were about 21 gifs on this page that timed out.



and then also
http://images.macrumors.com/vb/clientscript/vbulletin_attachment.js?v=367

[Sun Baked]

The forums aren't slow, some of the users possibly are though. ;)

Month old threads.:eek:

[devilot]

the problem I have is that pages don't load and just sit and timeout, or they work fine. I have to click a like 3, 4, 5 times before it loads. But when it finally loads, it loads fine. But, most links just time out.

And it's not my connection. It's just the macrumors site.Exactly what I've been experiencing the last few days... I'll have to click/ re-load the same page at least 3 times but once it goes, it's totally fine. Also made me worry it was my connection but in at least three different physical locations/ networks, it was just MR and not any other site that had this issue.

[WildCowboy]

Exactly what I've been experiencing the last few days... I'll have to click/ re-load the same page at least 3 times but once it goes, it's totally fine. Also made me worry it was my connection but in at least three different physical locations/ networks, it was just MR and not any other site that had this issue.

Hmm...today, too? I've been around for much of the last eight hours and haven't noticed a single problem.

[devilot]

Hmm...today, too? I've been around for much of the last eight hours and haven't noticed a single problem.Yup, today, too. Including when (attempting) to submit a reply or even trying to get to the reply page. :o (And I've been on a lot more today than the previous three days.)



:edit: As per Arn's request for geographic location and browsers:
Northern CA; Bay Area (more specifically, south bay-- say, near Cupertino).
Camino 1.5 has been giving me lotsa issues.
Went to Safari 2.0.4 and still some broken images and sometimes the pages hang, but not nearly the inability to access the forum pages as w/ Camino.

[MacNut]

Does this have anything to do with why avatar uploads are taking a few hours.

[arn]

Does this have anything to do with why avatar uploads are taking a few hours.

no. that's because the avatars are kept on a seperate server and it only syncs up every so often.

arn

[Sean Dempsey]

Hmm...today, too? I've been around for much of the last eight hours and haven't noticed a single problem.

yeah its been like this the last few days for me at 2 different locations, on every browser.

[bobber205]

Anyone else experiencing fine page loads but with lots of images missing and the alt text showing instead? Sometimes the page will load fine but only 3 or 4 smilies will show up.

[IJ Reilly]

Anyone else experiencing fine page loads but with lots of images missing and the alt text showing instead? Sometimes the page will load fine but only 3 or 4 smilies will show up.

Sometimes. Other times, the pages don't load at all. The boards have been pretty nearly unusable all weekend. I haven't noticed any other problems on the net, just here.

[arn]

can people post geographic locations and browsers they are having problems with?

arn

[siurpeeman]

can people post geographic locations and browsers they are having problems with?

arn

southern california here, using safari (3.0 beta). most of the time, everything is just fine. other times, i have to reload a couple times to get things to load fully.

[Sean Dempsey]

southern utah
firefox 2
safari 2

[janey]

can people post geographic locations and browsers they are having problems with?

arn

The problem's not really happening anymore for some reason, but..

los angeles, safari 2.0.4. My iPhone is slow in general so I don't know about including it. :o

[IJ Reilly]

Likewise. All cleared up now.

[arn]

Likewise. All cleared up now.

I guess I'm going to chalk this up as an odd network/internet issue.

arn

[Joshua8o8]

I'm in hawaii and I'm using safari 3 beta. lately the Mac Rumors server has been timing out. I noticed this in the past three days. Thanks for everyones hard work on this forum, i really have a good time on it!