Posted on 10/29/2012 11:49:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 10/30/2012 2:16:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Very sorry about the problems with our servers causing FR to fail under heavy traffic loads. Praying that John finds a solution or workaround soon.
In the meantime, here are a couple suggestion you can use to possibly make your pages load faster:
Select "Disabled" in the "Region" pulldown for each sidebar block you wish to temporarily disable then click "Modify":
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/manage-blocks
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/settings
And it’s simply a click to toggle "Brevity" from "Text" to "Headers" or back the other way when needed: http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index
If enough of us did this we would reduce the amount of data downloaded on each click, reducing the load on the database and the server and possibly increasing overall systems performance.
To reset your preferences later, click on "Account" at the top of any of the main index pages and then "Manage Blocks" to configure your sidebars and "My Preferences" to set your number of threads and replies per thread preferences.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/
Thank you all very much and good luck.
I had to do reset the parameters twice.
I have Windows 7, and it can be tough on sites where I try to go back after leaving to check for email or calls. Often I have to relog/sign in. Free Republic is one of the worse in that reqard.
Done!
Thnx Jim!
Self ping to read later. Thanks for the information.
I didn’t save the log, but there was one node earlier showing a latency of over four thousand.
Currently Ntt and Verio both show latency between 190 and 290.
There is something really screwy going on with the backbone.
Wow....good catch!
Informational pingout.
I did my part. I like it a whole lot better. Cleaner and less busy page. :)
Hope everyone does it.
FR used to be much quicker, as you well know, even in times of huge traffic.
Leads me to think something outside FR's internal architecture is causing most of the problems.
Thanks Jim
Just worried John may get fed up, and one day we'll on click on FreeRepublic only to get that guy from Jurassic Park saying...
"ahh ahh ahh...you didn't say the magic word, ahh ahh ahh..."
Tomkat, Mesta, myself, and a few others have been doing tracert and such to look at some things.
And what we’re seeing shows not FR having a high latency, but instead everything BUT Fr as having high latency.
Just saw gin.ntt.net having a latency of 500 to 600.
Prosecuting the little s***s that do DOS attacks and throwing them in jail would help.
I just reduced the "Thread Pagination" to 20 messages per page and "Browsing" to 20 results per page; and (sighing heavily) removed the sidebar link to Sarah Palin.
Things are moving faster.
Let's encourage everyone to try your hints.
Cheers!
I didn't.
It does appear that something is broken in the internet backbone.
The nodes are showing really messed up stuff.
I wonder what is going on.
I was already planning on putting them on 20 next Monday but I just put them to 50 and will still do the 20 in a few days. I had forgot about the side bar so that will be next. I’m just keeping Breaking and my state.
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I seem to remember having to do this a few years ago when there was problems.
Jim, I suppose a lot of people like myself only lurk on the site. I only signed in to add the fact that maybe you should severely limit the things someone who is not logged in can see during election night. Maybe have the default page only load certain information. I imagine there could be several thousand of those type people checking in and we should keep the site clean for members on that night.
I changed my settings as well.
All set.
I’ve always been a bttt, no-text, “Latest Posts/Comments” peruser anyway - - hardly ever look at keywords or the sidebar or the latest articles page, etc. That way I get to see all (or at least most) of the latest thread titles and at the same time see which ones are getting the most responses, ie., drawing the most interest. (For that reason I left that page at 50.)
Thanks for the tips.
For some weird reason, Firefox (15.01) loads FR pages a bit better than IE based browser.
Both, however, are sluggish.
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