gordon s Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 (edited) Post deleted... Edited December 21, 2019 by gordon s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayfield Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 I think its just that the site is so popular, I do find hitting the circular arrow tab speeds up the change from page to page Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 I found it slow this afternoon, but it then improved so I deleted the post. Sadly tonight it’s back to slow loading and eventually, error messages. Hopefully someone will come up with a solution and these issues will improve. I’d certainly prefer a slow RMweb to none at all....... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Nile Posted December 21, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 21, 2019 I pass the time waiting for pages to load by doing some modelling. 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 (edited) Good idea, but I can’t tonight. Watched Liverpool first and now watching the darts, so an iPad on my lap and a glass or two of red is going down nicely...... Edited December 21, 2019 by gordon s 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted December 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2019 (edited) .... which might improve your modelling immensely. p.s. it has been noticeably slow today. Edited December 21, 2019 by BoD 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 5 hours ago, hayfield said: I think its just that the site is so popular, I do find hitting the circular arrow tab speeds up the change from page to page IF that is the case - and I doubt it - popularity will swiftly wane. Patience has it's limits !! Regards, John Isherwood. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted December 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2019 (edited) I don’t think it’s related to high traffic at any given time because it seems to be semi-random (it’s been doing it on and off all afternoon for me) and it’s doing it now (stupidly early in the AM). Whatever the problem is that builds up and requires a reset is possibly building up more quickly recently. Some sort of resource leak, I guess. Edited December 22, 2019 by Harlequin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJGraphics Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Harlequin said: I don’t think it’s related to high traffic at any given time because it seems to be semi-random (it’s been doing it on and off all afternoon for me) and it’s doing it now (stupidly early in the AM). Whatever the problem is that builds up and requires a reset is possibly building up more quickly recently. Some sort of resource leak, I guess. I'm experiencing the same problems – slow yesterday afternoon with several 552 errors and definitely a bit slow this morning compared with the very fast performance I normally see at this time of day after the changes made recently. In particular I notice the long delay if I click on a Go to latest post star or button. John PS: This post took over half a minute to save first time before I could resume using the Forum. Edited December 22, 2019 by JJGraphics To add further comment 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 22, 2019 Moderators Share Posted December 22, 2019 It has been slower than it should be but I haven't been able to pin down what is or isn't happening. Observations continue as time permits. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 It's patchy for me, sometimes it hangs, and I end up getting an error message when logging on. Then like now it rockets along. Not an easy thing to find. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 To my eye the problem is definitely site related. Other web pages load very quickly but RMWeb has been as slow as treacle for me for several months now. Consistently. And I mean sometimes 20 or 30 seconds to load a page or post on a thread, and some posts failing to action so that I refresh the page after a few minutes to find my post has uploaded. I'm using the most recent release of Firefox but checked on IE and it is the same on that browser as well. The site is so slow I now use it less than I used to because I just don't have the time and patience to sit watching nothing happening. Something in the forum code is the culprit I expect and I wonder if its to do with images, maybe the caching of them? There were some instances of all images being displayed twice in some threads for a short while after the new forums went live. That can still be seen on some threads. 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cravensdmufan Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 49 minutes ago, Martin S-C said: To my eye the problem is definitely site related. Other web pages load very quickly but RMWeb has been as slow as treacle for me for several months now. Consistently. And I mean sometimes 20 or 30 seconds to load a page or post on a thread, and some posts failing to action so that I refresh the page after a few minutes to find my post has uploaded. I'm using the most recent release of Firefox but checked on IE and it is the same on that browser as well. The site is so slow I now use it less than I used to because I just don't have the time and patience to sit watching nothing happening. Something in the forum code is the culprit I expect and I wonder if its to do with images, maybe the caching of them? There were some instances of all images being displayed twice in some threads for a short while after the new forums went live. That can still be seen on some threads. I'm wondering if it's Firefox. I had the latest Firefox until a few weeks ago and RMW and a few other sites were very slow indeed. So quite by chance I tried Microsoft Edge for the first time ever - and it flies! I've been using it ever since and probably won't go back now. Pages are loading virtually instantly and I only have a basic Sky Broadband, currently around 10mbs which is fine for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordon s Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 ......but I doubt Microsoft Edge will work on my iPad and iMac...... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJGraphics Posted December 22, 2019 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 (edited) 15 minutes ago, cravensdmufan said: I'm wondering if it's Firefox. I had the latest Firefox until a few weeks ago and RMW and a few other sites were very slow indeed. So quite by chance I tried Microsoft Edge for the first time ever - and it flies! I've been using it ever since and probably won't go back now. Pages are loading virtually instantly and I only have a basic Sky Broadband, currently around 10mbs which is fine for me. I don't think Firefox is the problem. I use a Mac and the same problems exist on both Firefox and Safari on that platform. I also sometimes use an iPad to access the site with the same outcome. I have additionally accessed the site from PCs and Macs in different locations using Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Opera. If the forum is going well, they all fly if it is not they all behave badly, but the situation can sometimes change for each click . . . John PS: This post added in a couple of seconds and the site is absolutely flying for me at the moment. Edited December 22, 2019 by JJGraphics Added comment 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted December 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2019 8 minutes ago, cravensdmufan said: I'm wondering if it's Firefox. I had the latest Firefox until a few weeks ago and RMW and a few other sites were very slow indeed. So quite by chance I tried Microsoft Edge for the first time ever - and it flies! I've been using it ever since and probably won't go back now. Pages are loading virtually instantly and I only have a basic Sky Broadband, currently around 10mbs which is fine for me. Not specifically disagreeing with your comment about Firefox, just adding my experience with Safari, both on my Mac and also the version that runs on my iPad, that it mirrors what others have been seeing. Good performance sometimes interspersed by periods of very slow page loading and uploading of new posts. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin S-C Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 I doubt its Firefox. As I said I have tried with Internet Explorer and its equally slow using that. Firefox is fast on plenty of other websites. I can't test with Edge as I refuse to have it on my PC! It could be a combination of the code in some browsers and the site but I wish anyone good luck in finding that conflict. For me this has become a real chore. I think it first began in about mid or late September... maybe early October... and its been like it every day, no matter the time of day, since then. It has made the site very unattractive to visit. I wonder if it would be possible to disable certain site features one at a time and see if that has any effect? My guess is its still image related. I genuinely expect a version of the site that had user uploaded images disabled would fly along. @AY Mod Andy - I would also be happy to do some testing if you were to set up a mirror site and play about with it. I imagine a few others would volunteer to see if we can make any progress in a live environment but without tinkering with the main site. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 22, 2019 Moderators Share Posted December 22, 2019 7 minutes ago, Martin S-C said: its been like it every day, no matter the time of day, since then. It has made the site very unattractive to visit. The site has been running fine for most for several weeks so there may be local issues affecting some. Thank you for the support offer but we have data policies to uphold which would preclude that approach. If anyone in our IT is available tomorrow I'll see if they can assist. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold D9020 Nimbus Posted December 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2019 53 minutes ago, gordon s said: ......but I doubt Microsoft Edge will work on my iPad and iMac...... There is a version of Microsoft Edge for iPad but it uses the same rendering engine as Safari (as does every browser on that platform—it's an Apple requirement). Edge for PC is going to be replaced soon by a new version based on Chromium (the open source version of Google Chrome). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted December 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2019 For the record the website was down in the wee small hours last night, giving 522 errors. This follows the pattern we have seen prevously: sporadic deterioration in response times then a crash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 23, 2019 Moderators Share Posted December 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Harlequin said: For the record the website was down in the wee small hours last night, giving 522 errors. Last night's was a bit different as the server decided it would sit down in a dark corner from about 3.00 for four hours and do a file system check. The first time it's done that in 202 days it tells me. There wasn't anything I could intervene with during that but the upside is that it seems to be running OK this morning. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Harlequin Posted December 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2019 33 minutes ago, AY Mod said: Last night's was a bit different as the server decided it would sit down in a dark corner from about 3.00 for four hours and do a file system check. The first time it's done that in 202 days it tells me. There wasn't anything I could intervene with during that but the upside is that it seems to be running OK this morning. Fair enough. You can never rely on a damn computer to do the same thing two times in a row! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 23, 2019 Moderators Share Posted December 23, 2019 5 minutes ago, Harlequin said: You can never rely on a damn computer to do the same thing two times in a row! True, but I can rely on the thing to throw a bloody wobbly every Christmas or New Year. Just looked at the support tickets I've raised over the holiday period over the last three years to relive the horrors of a malware attack and automatic billing issues. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 23, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2019 It is at times like this that a minority of the membership needs to remember this is all free, gratis and costs eff all. I'm sorry holiday periods and too many weekends are spoilt trying to keep the forum going, and am grateful for all your efforts, Andy. 9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted December 23, 2019 Share Posted December 23, 2019 44 minutes ago, Oldddudders said: It is at times like this that a minority of the membership needs to remember this is all free, gratis and costs eff all. Absolutely. But I can't help feeling RMweb response would be at least 100% improved if the dreadful Invision software wasn't quite so dreadful. It's page loading sequence is inexplicable, as is the mechanism for ignoring threads. I'm not surprised the server is having a hard time. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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