Yes, very odd. The timing log file looks like this:
0.38 /wiki/Main_Page
0.04 /w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page
0.05 /w/wiki.phtml?
title=Special:Userlogin&action=submit&returnto=Main_Page
0.38 /wiki/Main_Page
0.04 /w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=edit
0.21 /wiki/Main_Page
0.49 /wiki/Special:Randompage
0.06 /wiki/Faunus
0.05 /wiki/Special:Specialpages
0.34 /wiki/Special:Recentchanges
0.04 /wiki/Special:Statistics
0.04 /wiki/Special:Specialpages
0.49 /wiki/Special:Randompage
0.05 /wiki/Michigan_Technological_University
0.04 /w/wiki.phtml?
title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Michigan_Technological_University
0.50 /wiki/Michigan
0.05 /w/wiki.phtml?
title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Michigan
0.16 /wiki/Special:Recentchanges
Which continues for a while, and then suddenly:
0.03 /w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=Main_Page
0.04 /w/wiki.phtml?
title=Special:Userlogin&action=submit&returnto=Main_Page
5.92 /wiki/Main_Page
0.86 /wiki/white
0.04 /wiki/Special:Preferences
0.06 /wiki/white
0.47 /wiki/Special:Randompage
3.55 /wiki/Hamas
0.06 /wiki/white
94.11 /wiki/Main_Page
83.64 /wiki/white
31.58 /wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
18.02 /wiki/white
1.55 /w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Sandbox&action=edit
11.32 /wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
14.47 /wiki/white
0.04 /wiki/Special:Preferences
0.06 /wiki/white
0.04 /w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Preferences&action=submit
0.06 /wiki/white
11.06 /wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox
294.70 /wiki/Special:Unusedimages
0.55 /
...and then it goes back to normal 0.1s, etc.
The numbers represent the seconds between the main script
starting and the output being sent to the user, so it reflects
the time taken by the script itself and by the database queries
needed by the page. So maybe there's something in the way the
database is configured that's causing it to slow down sometimes.
I may have to put in some more detailed traces.
> That's very disturbing, yes. I will check into it. Bomis itself
> sits in the same cage on the same network segment, and is fast.
> So that can't be it, or anyhow that shouldn't be it.
>--Jimbo
>
>Magnus Manske wrote:
>
>> I just started testing the new server, or I would have liked to,
>> but is really awfully slow. It repeatedly refused connection, and
>> when it displays pages at all, it does so very slowly.
>> I know that's not the fault of the script (it was much faster on
>> the piclab server), and not my Internet connection either (other
>> sites work with normal speed). It probably ain't the new server,
>> either. So, could it be the Bomis bandwidth? That could explain
>> the "getting stuck" of the current software as well.
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