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Intermittent FSDeveloper Response

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Has anyone been experiencing slow response intermittently today? From going to the website itself to the response when clicking on a forum or topic I have seen very slow response at times. Like over a minute will elapse from when I click on a topic to that page being returned or it takes so long that I stop that request and start a new one.
 
It has been like that for me since yesterday. It's not all the time, though. A lot of the time it hums right along.
 
It's sporadic... even through my smartphone (until modem/router is replaced)...
 
Numerous occurrences of FIN_WAIT_2 and other questionable connection activity via ipfaker.net can be seen as well. :scratchch

GaryGB
 
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Yes, I checked that this just happened with Fsdeveloper. I think it have happened before. the same behaviour.

Edit: Here they are again...happening again
 
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Hi,

I haven't noticed it. The only time that I do notice this is when the backup is running. One of them is around 22:00 CET, in that case the forum does not respond for a short while. I need to check at what other times backup run during the night.
 
Yep, I always notice the backup time. And also have noticed the lags as the others notice them in the last few days.
 
Same here, sometimes the website doesn't want to load at all, so I have to wait ten minutes before I try again.
 
Just a guess, and perhaps only a coincidence, but:

Since Mozilla FireFox rolled out the "Quantum" upgrade a couple of days ago, and that was about the same time I started noticing this issue, is there any chance that certain security and CDN / anti-tracking and ad-blocking connectivity 'extensions' which now malfunction in 'Quantum' (for those who actually allowed that "upgrade" to install), might affect connectivity with the FSDeveloper web site ? :scratchch

GaryGB
 
arno said:
One of them is around 22:00 CET, in that case the forum does not respond for a short while.
Click to expand...

So that's what the short outage is caused by! Been wondering about that for quite a while.
 
Over the last year or so, I have notice the same intermittent connectivity lag with associated display of a jQuery Ajax-related progress bar and FaceBook-related connectivity attempts, most often when certain forum participants are online at FSDeveloper. :coffee:

IIRC, some of those FS Developer forum participants have links to FaceBook in their forum 'signatures'. :alert:


One might wonder whether connectivity with FaceBook servers may also be implicated in episodes of lag when certain forum participants are online at FSDeveloper and their account status is subject to 'queries' by FSDeveloper forum web page coding ? ;)

Could this be due to global effects of the XenForo.Facebook.forceInit = true code on FSDeveloper forum pages causing trouble with browser extensions intended to forcibly block social networking features and trackers, etc. ? :scratchch

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/disabling-facebooks-sdk-js-for-logged-in-users.117580/

GaryGB
 
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If that's the case we can disable the Facebook integration. I don't think many users are actually using it.
 
I must say I also notice the server is slower now, while I'm checking the forum on my phone. I'll have a look at the server this evening.
 
Yesterday
Monday the 20th. it was sluggish and I had numerous failed log in attempts. But today all seems normal.
 
Hi all,

I just checked the server and didn't find much weird things there. I did notice some updates were ready for install, so I did that and have rebooted the server a few minutes ago. Let me know if the problems continue.
 
My experience today (11/21) is this. At approximately 1:30 PM EST (GMT-5) I could not get the FSDeveloper homepage returned to my browser. I tried several times without success. I waited about 1 hr. and 15 mins. and tried again. No problem until I had looked at about 12 threads. Then I clicked on the Blender area and had to wait about 30 - 45 seconds for response. I looked at six or more threads after that with no problem. When I tried to get to FSDeveloper without success it was before Arno had applied updates. The one slow response was after the updates.
 
In Chicago area, the server continues to lag rather badly now, especially when trying to load the Edit or Emoticon forms.

GaryGB
 
Sometimes good, sometimes slow, sometimes unresponsive. Lunchtime has been a regular slowdown in the UK, but the timing of this week's duff responses just reading the forums has no rhyme or reason.

edit: it's taking minutes and multiple attempts just to post this.
 
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