"TMP is really slow" Topic

Is it since the ignore feature was out in?

I was locked out twice in the last 5 minutes from starting a new thread/topic.
That is why you don't see it.

It was struggling this morning, I had to start a new thread no less than three times..

Oh I see you… I don't want to miss our on any views really.

Getting rid of tangospam has just transformed the front page though.

Has seemed normal speed here

Regards

Jim

Seems fine to me.

no problems for me.

I really enjoy the front page with the ignore option.

No problems, running at perfectly normal speed.

Doing fine here.

Interesting thing with the 'lockout' feature. I've just replied to two threads and got the lockout message both times. On both threads the reply number after the thread title on the main page has not changed to include my post. When I click the thread I can still see my post. I just wonder whether anyone else can see it?

Speed seems fine, the odd lockout message.

When I click the thread I can still see my post. I just wonder whether anyone else can see it?

If you can see it, then everyone else can see it. It's just the post count that hasn't updated.

EDIT: and I got a "lockfile" when posting this!!

Really slow is putting it mildly! (smile).
To post is a nightmare!.

Amicalement
Armand

Not a bit slow – normal to me

Very variable, slow read speeds such that I can see the screen painting, lots of lockfile errors. But sometimes OK.

Again, been like this since ignore came back, which may or may not be related.

Again, been like this since ignore came back, which may or may not be related.

It was just the same before.

It's probably worth bearing in mind that slow response speeds are far more likely to do with the available bandwidth between the user and the server that runs TMP than the load on the server itself. For instance, Armand is reporting really slow response but he is in Argentina and I suspect he is not using a fast network connection. OTOH, I have a 20Mb connection at home and a fast connection at work and I don't notice any lack of response.

The "lockfile" errors though are to do with load on the server. They are caused by a "race condition" in the database access.

Very, very slow today.
My posts are getting locked out and some of them are not appearing at all. And guess what, I don't live in "Argentina", I am posting from England from a great connection. it has been this way since Ignore was turned back on.

Forgive me if I don't pay much attention to the excuses of MajorB and his sock puppet accounts.

I had a feeling this would happen; the intolerance and mean-spiritedness of a very small minority leading to a worse site for the vast majority of us. I hope you are happy.

Fine here. Terrible computer, slow connection, no problems.

I'm in England; I'm not a MajorB sockpuppet and my connections are fine, same as ever and no delay at all. I am also very pleased with the ignore function which means I don't have to put up with the spamming, the histrionics and the whining from the anti-ignore faction. They must be getting desperate if they have to resort to claiming the ignore function is causing technical difficulties.

I'm not noticing any difference to TMP.

No difference, which is to say, four out of five times posting or changing pages everything clicks along okeedokee, one out of five times it hangs or give me a "page cannot be displayed" or "lockfile/timeout" result. I just back up and try again, usually without any trouble….

"Duplicate message."

No difference, which is to say, four out of five times posting or changing pages everything clicks along okeedokee, one out of five times it hangs or give me a "page cannot be displayed" or "lockfile/timeout" result. I just back up and try again, usually without any trouble….

"I'm not noticing any difference to TMP."

Well I am, on a fast and blisteringly fast connections respectively.

It looks like the screen paint thing may be Chrome specific.

It is however time-coincident with the re-enabling of the ignore function, and as I said, they may or may not be related. Correlation does not equate causation. Could be something which google have changed instead.

"They must be getting desperate if they have to resort to claiming the ignore function is causing technical difficulties."

I couldn't give two hoots one way or another about the ignore function as I've got my 400 post front page, but I do if it breaks the site.

Slow…

No problem or difference for me either.

Its fine for me in England too!

No problem here.

OK, so some people are experiencing slow response and others are not. So that means it's not the server and/or the Ignore function – if it was, everyone would be experiencing the same symptoms. And it doesn't appear to be related to the speed of your connection (as I first thought). As Martin Rapier suggests it might be related to what browser you are using. I am using Firefox and am having no problems. Is this true for others?

Firefox for me too.

No speed problems here (IE, Chrome, and handmade under Unix), but …

OK, so some people are experiencing slow response and others are not. So that means it's not the server and/or the Ignore function – if it was, everyone would be experiencing the same symptoms.

That's not even close to how widely networked computer systems behave.

That's not even close to how widely networked computer systems behave.

Could you expand on that? It might help to identify the problem that some people are experiencing here on TMP.

I tried posting this morning and got locked out when trying to post the message on other threads…appened twice this week

no problems for me.

Could you expand on that? It might help to identify the problem that some people are experiencing here on TMP.

Sure, the general way people connect over a wide area network like the way most of us likely get to TMP (through multiple servers at various locations over paths that change over time – even during one "session" on the site) is not really amenable to single point variance analysis.

The cause is likely the culmination of several factors, and depending on the context of your connection(s) to TMP, and each factor would have different relative impact for several groups of cases.

The best thing you can do about something like this is ask "is this persistent or just an occasional annoyance"?

If it is persistent, do you have an option to try a different:

- time of day
- machine
- browser
- ISP

Those being the easiest things for most people to change on their own.

The key thing is to realize that because swinging a dead cat over your head at midnight in the graveyard increases the performance of the OFM's connection to TMP, YMMV.

It would take a lot of data over a long time to suss out the different effects to optimize connections. Even more to reasonably characterize the impact of something like the Ignore function.

Also, have you tried turning it off and back on again?
:)

Many thanks for your explanations etotheipi.

Amicalement
Armand