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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