forums are too slow!

[Gherald2]

I'm writing this in vim as I wait for the index to load... It seems 503s, Connection: close, and 60 second load times are becomming all too common as of late.

Just what kind of hardware are these forums hosted on? I'm wondering, does it need an upgrade?

I'd be more than happy to donate $50 or so if it would help get this place hosted on a few Opterons!

With all the users we've got, I'm sure we could raise $2000 easy, maybe more.

[ett_gramse_nap]

I don't think it's the hardware that's the bottleneck. It's more likely the internet connection.

[Gherald2]

it pings fine, and I'm pretty sure it's located at oregon state which has a great connection:

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gherald@mu gherald $ ping forums.gentoo.org
PING forums.gentoo.org (128.193.0.38) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from falcon-bugs.gentoo.oregonstate.edu (128.193.0.38): icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=195 ms
64 bytes from falcon-bugs.gentoo.oregonstate.edu (128.193.0.38): icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=75.0 ms
64 bytes from falcon-bugs.gentoo.oregonstate.edu (128.193.0.38): icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=74.7 ms
64 bytes from falcon-bugs.gentoo.oregonstate.edu (128.193.0.38): icmp_seq=4 ttl=47 time=80.6 ms
64 bytes from falcon-bugs.gentoo.oregonstate.edu (128.193.0.38): icmp_seq=5 ttl=47 time=74.1 ms
64 bytes from falcon-bugs.gentoo.oregonstate.edu (128.193.0.38): icmp_seq=6 ttl=47 time=74.8 ms
64 bytes from falcon-bugs.gentoo.oregonstate.edu (128.193.0.38): icmp_seq=7 ttl=47 time=74.5 ms
64 bytes from falcon-bugs.gentoo.oregonstate.edu (128.193.0.38): icmp_seq=8 ttl=47 time=108 ms

--- forums.gentoo.org ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 7009ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 74.198/94.792/195.955/39.752 ms

That doesn't seem bad to me.

[kallamej]

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