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Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 03, 2008, 08:38:02 PM
At first I thought it was FF. Now even Safari is having problems. Could be just my route to ASO? I even had a complete failure to reach TS about 3:30 (CST) this afternoon. One thread is trying to load in FF after Quitting FF and closing all tabs but that thread. Been at least 5 minutes. wallbash.gif We'll see how long it takes to get this sent (on Safari). Starting at 8:38:00 CST.

Grew tired of waiting for the page to come back at 8:51:33. Refreshed main Tech listing and that finished at 8:51:57 showing this new thread actually had been loaded/accepted. Stranger thing is that most of the links to other parts of TS worked much quicker, almost at normal speeds. doh.gif

Is that game still in progress? Maybe everyone on my cable node is watching it via the 'net? dntknw.gif Or else, my route to ASO goes through the Suez Canal! laugh.gif

Apparently no one else here is having troubles, that's good! smile.gif Oh well...sleep1.gif
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Paddy on February 03, 2008, 09:09:40 PM
No issues right now for me, Jim. smile.gif Wasn't around earlier...(and no - I wasn't watching the game!)
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Gregg on February 04, 2008, 07:15:23 AM
I got an error message, and the page wouldn't load on a second attempt either. So I watched that game. It was a good one!
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: RNKIII on February 04, 2008, 07:21:33 AM
Had the same symptoms/problems at various times yesterday...  from about 2:30 cst until at least 9:30 cst...  Even when I was trying to send a pm, out it wouldn't go through..

SEEM to be OK this morning..


Bob K.   rnkiii
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 04, 2008, 07:29:39 AM
Agree, Bob! Things back to normal (fast!) this AM. I'm betting the game had something to do with it. Who won, anyway? Haven't even looked at the paper or turned on the radio yet. smile.gif
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: RNKIII on February 04, 2008, 08:06:29 AM
NOT the Patriots!!

Bob K.   rnkiii
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 04, 2008, 09:26:22 AM
So, you're saying that the Giants are unpatriotic?! tease.gif I gues I'm supposed to be happy for the Mannings family. dntknw.gif I'm just glad TS is back to normal! cheer.gif
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Paddy on February 04, 2008, 11:40:53 AM
Actually, there was one point yesterday when a reply to a thread wouldn't post for me - got tired of waiting, went off and came back and it said lost connection with server or some such. Of course, then I couldn't just hit the back button and recover what I'd written! sad.gif But redid the reply (shorter!) and had no problems the second time, so whatever it was, it was a very on-and-off issue.
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 04, 2008, 11:59:30 AM
It's not the first time I've seen this behavior. Each time, my post has been accepted, I just never get returned to the thread. Seems like the server/software 'forgets' what it's supposed to be doing. dntknw.gif So far, I haven't lost any of my extremely helpful, illuminating and expert posts! tease.gif Even though it appears that some should have 'disappeared.' blush-anim-cl.gif
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 04, 2008, 05:32:27 PM
This time the post didn't make it through...

First attempt to reach TS was rewarded with an almost immediate "Unable to locate..." Used Network Utility and was able to reach ASO no problem. Came back here and got the Tech list and attempted to open this thread and four others showing new posts. This post loaded, almost. Spinning pizza never quit. Strange thing is that it seemed to be unable to locate/download the 'smilies' and the Edit, Quote and Reply buttons. Canelled the loading and did a refresh and the page loaded normally. However, the attempt to add the post (using the Fast Reply method) resulted in another, immediate "Unable to locate..." Finally closed the page and went elsewhere.

The other four tabs never loading anything except the "Unable to locate..."

Hope this is just on my end. FF 2.0.0.4, Core2 Dou iMac, FF caching set to zero everywhere I can find a setting.

Of course, coming back in five minutes, TS seems to load fine. wallbash.gif Including the four other threads. dntknw.gif

Here goes another "Add Reply" attempt... :crossed fingers:

Immediately got the "Unable to locate..." alert but it loaded, anyway. Could not even refresh the Tech list. Simply went away and returned a few minutes later. wallbash.gif
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Gregg on February 04, 2008, 08:17:51 PM
Could not connect to server again just awhile ago...
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 04, 2008, 09:35:55 PM
I think it's good to know it isn't just me. coolio.gif Loading fine right now. dntknw.gif
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: kimmer on February 04, 2008, 09:39:30 PM
I've been bumping into this same thing for several weeks. Both here and at my own board -- which is hosted at ASO. ASO told me it was my connection to the internet. dntknw.gif
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Jack W on February 04, 2008, 10:02:58 PM
I've had it happen several times in the last few days.

No real problem tho, I just check back later.

- Jack
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: krissel on February 04, 2008, 10:14:27 PM
Well, I just logged on and things are fine.  smile.gif

Was at my folks' yesterday watching the game of course (NY Giants are my Mom's favorite). Was a really good game. That amazing eluding by Manning and the subsequent miracle catch by Tyree was unbelievable. Both teams were pretty equal in ability but that one play made the difference.

Seems the ASO server (Ana Lucia) has been having hiccups. She must have been a Patriot fan.  toothgrin.gif
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Paddy on February 04, 2008, 10:19:58 PM
Seems like there are two issues in play - Ana Lucia was offline (for HTTP - not mail or MySQL, not that that helps us any!) for a period of time tonight AND there is another issue out of ASO's control:
QUOTE
Paddy-

Any slow connections you may have experienced over the past 48 hours was out of our control.  It was related to a broken Level 3 link.

Are you still having problems loading your site?  If so, can you provide us with an exact URL?

We apologize for any hosting inconveniences you've experienced.


--
Anthony Massey
A Small Orange Tech Support


He also gave me the link to this thread in the ASO forums, which makes it sound a bit different:

http://forums.asmallorange.com/index.php?showtopic=11066

(Anyone know what a "broken Level 3 link" means? - I've asked Anthony...)

BTW - I assume Ana Lucia was offline while they did the Apache rollbacks mentioned in the thread at ASO.
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Gregg on February 05, 2008, 07:31:38 AM
QUOTE(krissel @ Feb 4 2008, 10:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Was at my folks' yesterday watching the game of course (NY Giants are my Mom's favorite). Was a really good game. That amazing eluding by Manning and the subsequent miracle catch by Tyree was unbelievable. Both teams were pretty equal in ability but that one play made the difference.



Although you and Paddy have established that The Game was not the cause of our sluggishness (and it refused to load "Community" the first time again just now) logic would tell you that if this was the second most watched TV broadcast in our history, there weren't a bunch of folks online at the time.

That catch was incredible. I thought the ball was going to pop out while he was still bringing it in, so to speak. And then I was sure it was going to pop out as he got bent over backwards and was about to hit the ground. I think the defensive player being underneath him prevented that, and permitted him to hang on to the ball WITH HIS HELMUT!!!!! Amazing!
Title: TS Slow as molasses in January?
Post by: Paddy on February 05, 2008, 07:43:10 AM
Further response from Ben at ASO:
QUOTE
Paddy,

The problem you were experiencing earlier was related to the rollbacks. In regards to Level3, we have had the Level3 Tier of routing to our datacenter cut down to 75% recently, which has caused a lot of issues relating to site timeouts. Please let us know if you need any further assistance.

Regards,
Ben