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Why is the DBB.net so slow?

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Seems like every time I use this site, pages are slow to load. All other sites are fast. What gives?
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Post by Krom »

Network congestion around the server most likely, I've noticed variations in the speed the last few days. It will probably clear up with some time.
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Post by null0010 »

I've always noticed that threads with lots of posts load really slow compared to other websites. It's like it's loading one post at a time or something.
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Post by roid »

Everytime i come back here it's slow and a lot of things don't work. I note the search still doesn't work properly.

I doubt it's coincidence that this is just happening when i come here, i'm not THAT jinxed.
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Time to upgrade ^_~
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Post by Ryujin »

I will also confirm consistent slowness. This is not just a temporary thing. Editing a post is the worst.
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Post by Skyalmian »

^ Editing posts times out half the time with a blank page displayed after the long wait is over, and then the edit was not even accepted.
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Post by Neo »

shrug I just get impatient when I post, edit posts, read posts and so on.

It's actually one of the reasons I used to use .com so much in the beginning. Sad, but true. =P
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Post by Avder »

What I have notied is that page loads are fast, but actually POSTING takes forever and basically requiers me to ignore the tab where I'm posting something for a few minutes.
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Neo wrote:It's actually one of the reasons I used to use .com so much

Me x2
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Post by Sirius »

I would guess there's some horrible performance bottleneck for creating or editing posts... maybe database writes are very slow, while reads aren't (contention for locks perhaps)?
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Post by Avder »

Here is an error I just got while trying to post something that forced me to hit back and re-submit:
General Error

Could not obtain common word list

DEBUG MODE

SELECT m.word_id FROM phpbb_search_wordmatch m, phpbb_search_wordlist w WHERE w.word_text IN ('application', 'apps', 'control', 'data', 'doing', 'firewalls', 'idiots', 'junk', 'let', 'matter', 'nonissue', 'number', 'outgoing', 'points', 'rid', 'smartphones', 'stretch', 'that', 'think', 'tho', 'tracking', 'try', 'two', 'user') AND m.word_id = w.word_id GROUP BY m.word_id HAVING COUNT(m.word_id) > 107529

Line : 309
File : functions_search.php
Hope this helps.
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Post by Ryujin »

Is this thing on?
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Post by Burlyman »

Nope. :)
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Post by KoolBear »

It doesn't appear slow to me at this moment.

Is this still an issue with anyone else?
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