Update: Stalling / Page Not Loading

[Todd]

We've upgraded the kernel to see if this resolved the stalling issues. Please post here to tell us if you have noticed any improvements or if you are still experiencing problems. I'm making this thread sticky for now. Thanks.

One more thing, keep this thread on topic. Any off topic posts will be removed.

[}:8) Supermoo]

Mmm... good. :)

It's a good fast speed, much better than some of the slowdowns I've been experiencing.

[ducktape]

alot faster and hasnt stalled yet

[trenzterra]

no difference for me, still slow at times.

[roly]

Thats good!
Now its really fast for me!

[Todd]

Originally posted by trenzterra
no difference for me, still slow at times.
Would you mind sending me a PM with a trace? I see your location is listed as Singapore, which may be part of the problem. I'm not sure what the routing is like from Singapore so that may play a role in why it’s slows for you. I could be wrong though, and the kernel upgrade may not have fixed everything. Let’s wait until more reports come in and see what the general reaction is like.

[Bruce]

The board is still slow for me as well right now, but that seems to be network related.

[Jan]

I have been testing for a while now and it is a lot faster than it has been for days. :classic2:

[Blank Verse]

Wow, the speed is good...it seemed yesterday it was painfully slow.

[conkermaniac]

It's fine. I don't see any change, but then again, I wasn't here during that supposed "downtime."

[The Red Guy]

It's the usual: Blistering fast for me.

[Mika]

Now it's like the days before the blocks, the ups & downs. Not faster, not slower.

[anhedonia]

Nope, still stalls for me. Not as bad as before, but still a fair bit. It'll be going really fast; then I'll click 'Reply' or something and it'll take ages to get there.

I'm on cable, so it really shouldn't be doing that...

Hmmm.

It has improved from yesterday, though!

[[lhomme]]

This site is really fast for me and I've had few problems.

[Ben]

It's much faster for me. No more stalls either...

[Todd]

Originally posted by +chips
Nope, still stalls for me. Not as bad as before, but still a fair bit.
Could you send a traceroute to me via PM? I find it interesting that it appears better but not fixed as it should have fixed it, but if not it shouldn't have improved at all. Anyway, if you send a trace during when you notice a problem it might help to rule out network issues.

Let's keep the posts coming. I'm rather certain the kernel fixed it as I've been monitoring it closely all night and it hasn't stalled once for me but as always I'm interested to hear if you're having problems.

[cheatpark]

Its still stalling for me. How would I do a trace route?

[Mandrake]

It's stalling realllly bad for me this morning! :(

[Who?]

its slow for me, but today all the sites i have gone to are slow:( i think AT&T is playing with my speed:(

[cheatpark]

Most sites stall every so often with my isp but usually they should load immediately. Most times the speed is pretty fast but sometimes it stalls.

[Belgiumdude]

yeah it's faster,sometimes it stalles,but it stayes pritty fast (on kabel)

[Jan]

It appears to be stalling again at times :( I just had to reload three times to get a page up and when I went back to the main index saw that I was logged out again :cry2:

[Bruce]

It's stalling for me as well now. This time it isn't a newtwork problems either.

[Blank Verse]

It's still pretty good for me, and usually I have all those problems with speed, and you guys don't seem to. I kinda like this :D

[shizzle]

Doesnt stall for me...only slows down while I post a message. No big deal whatsoever.

[cheatpark]

Sometimes I have to click the button twice in order for it to post the message.

[DCI]

Stalls pretty bad over here..

Everytime wanna post have to refresh before i get to newreply

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by Todd

Would you mind sending me a PM with a trace? I see your location is listed as Singapore, which may be part of the problem. I'm not sure what the routing is like from Singapore so that may play a role in why it’s slows for you. I could be wrong though, and the kernel upgrade may not have fixed everything. Let’s wait until more reports come in and see what the general reaction is like. I get this error when I traceroute freewebspace.net/forums:

Unable to resolve target system name freewebspace.net/forums.

[shizzle]

you only traceroute the domain part...

[Bruce]

So in other words:

tracert freewebspace.net

[Mika]

These minutes the forum almost not working for me. 1min30sec to submit a post!

[trenzterra]

Originally posted by Mika
These minutes the forum almost not working for me. 1min30sec to submit a post! yeah sometimes after posting it takes forever.

And todd, i'm tracerouting now check your PM in a few minutes after this post if you're still online.

[is0lized]

yeah i get bad stalls at times

also i see no diff from kernal upgrade

[meow]

Don't know about yesterday because all U.S was screwed up for me, but there is more lagging after the site was down than there has been earlier.

[Blank Verse]

I got a stall a minute ago, but it didn't last, everything's back to normal.

[Jan]

Seems okay here now, no lagging at all, more like post upgrade speed again :) maybe that's cos most of the Americans are sleeping now? :p

[anhedonia]

Originally posted by Todd

Could you send a traceroute to me via PM?

I would if I knew how... :confused2



:o

[meow]

At a DOS Prompt type:
tracert freewebspace.net <ENTER>

NOW how will you get out if it? :p

[The Red Guy]

I encounter no such probs.

[Dusty]

I find it generally quite fast, but it still at times slows to a crawl for no apparent reason. Particularly when submitting a form, like replying to or creating a thread. Often times I have to post two or three times before it finally goes through.

56k modem.

[Gayowulf]

The site has always worked fine for me, though I havent used it much recently.

the odd time i get a DNS error after posting.

Im on a 28.8k so i guess i wouldnt be lying to you if I said it was always slow

[stu]

what OS is freewebspace.net running? what server specs?

[Technics]

I wasnt aware of any stalling, But today it's been extremly slow and ive had to refresh pages four or five times to get them to load if a thread has more than 8 posts in it.

[Moonman]

Originally posted by stu
what OS is freewebspace.net running? what server specs?
yeah thats what i want to know as well, the specs like that, and how much space/bandwith it is using.

[meow]

Lazy, lazy, lazy...:p
Apache/1.3.14(Unix)

[stu]

I've noticed that it has been stalling for the last few weeks... still no improvements now..

[Todd]

Originally posted by meow
Lazy, lazy, lazy...:p
Apache/1.3.14(Unix)
Actually if you check the announcement you'll see the main changes have been for Windows and not for FreeBSD. http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement.html

When it involves security issues that impact us we upgrade immediately as we've done with past kernel upgrades, the last PHP upgrade, and others. Otherwise if it isn't broke don't fix it. :)

DialTone is aware of their network issue and are working to fix it. Apache has nothing to do with the problem. Regardless though once we test it's stability on our test box all systems will receive the Apache upgrade. Latest isn't always best and in fact often latest means you are the bug tester. :)

[meow]

Eeeeh...since you are quoting me... I joked about them being lazy for not checking around a little. I got the data from the http headers the server is sending.

[stu]

you talk to me meow? I wasn't asking about the webserver software, but the OS. I figured it was either unix/linux..

[meow]

Tha lazy part? YEAH! I know you asked about the OS. That's why I said Unix. That's as close as I got. :p

[stu]

well. i guess you're right about me being lazy.. :biggrin2:

[Todd]

Sorry, didn't realize that was sarcastic. :D

Well DialTone is aware of the problem and working on it. I'm going to lock the thread as that is the latest update and the reports were enough to determine that the problem wasn't just kernel related.

I'll leave it sticky for now so people don't start a new thread asking about it. Thanks for all your reports and traceroutes, it's appreciated.

[Todd]

We've replaced the Cisco switch and as far as I can tell it appears to have taken care of it. It's not so much about the speed of the site as it is the stalling of the site. Where you have to submit a message two or more times and such. This may not have fixed it, it's to early to tell so if you experience the problems please post here. Thanks.

[stu]

good job Todd.. smooth surfing now... :)

[cheatpark]

I haven't experienced any problems recently.

[ducktape]

ok 4 me too right now

[Todd]

Thanks for the reports everyone. I believe it has been fixed based on the responses here and via PM so I'm making this thread unsticky.