Hanging

[::pete::]

Lately the site has been working slow for me and the pages and links within the site hang. I sometimes have to click it again to get it to go through as well as sometimes having to click the link more than once for it to start.

I hit other sites at the same time to see if its my connection or heavy traffic in the area, but all others work fast and smooth.

I use RoadRunner and IE with XP.

For example .. @7sec for this post to go and another 5sec for the post to show up.

[jaded]

I get that all the time too... I also get it at my kayaking site (www.paddletexas.com)

I've looked into it on my site and there never seems to be anything solid to point to with the connection or route so my conclusion has been that it might just be scripts (postnuke and PNphbb2) fighting one another to load the page. I'm not a computer guru so I'm giong to tag along on this one to see what Chris has to say.

[pilot_bell777]

There is a lot of reasons that this could happen from your computer to the server.

I would start with looking for spyware on your computer first....that stuff can eat up your memory and processor times. BAD stuff.

Other than that you can clean out your cache, defrag, delete temps, etc, etc...just basica computer houes cleaning....make sure you don't have a ton of processes loading, and make sure you dont' have unneeded services loading. Seems everything wants to load on startup! LOL

[::pete::]

They are all ruled out! ;)

[pilot_bell777]

right click the task bar and select Task Manager

click on performance
what is yoru total memory adn available mem.

[::pete::]

784176 380612

[pilot_bell777]

Not bad.....

Open task manager again, go to processes. Click on Mem Use twice so it sort highest to lowest, What is takign up the most memory. Do teh same for CPU, what is taking up the most time.

Start/Settings/Control Panel

Admin Tools, services.....what services are set to automatic, are there any set to auto that are not started, which services are started.

Right click my computer, go to properties, advanced, Performance (click on settings), click on advanced,

What do you a have set here? Click change on Virtual memory, what are your Initial size and max size set to?

Close all that...

Click on My computer, right click on C: drive, go to properties, tools, error checking, click check now

let that run...when finished
click on deframent now, click analyze......how fraged are you (not yoru tank)

go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en

download this spyware until, install, run, and run sweep with this app....best one I've used so far. It's free.....

Also....down in the system tray, what do you have running/loaded? (by the clock icons)

go to start/run type: winmsd

click on system summary, go to file, export.....dump to a txt file. Send me this file to my e-mail address.

:-)

[::pete::]

Not bad.....

Open task manager again, go to processes. Click on Mem Use twice so it sort highest to lowest, What is takign up the most memory. Do teh same for CPU, what is taking up the most time.

IE

Start/Settings/Control Panel

Admin Tools, services.....what services are set to automatic, are there any set to auto that are not started, which services are started.

hard to name them

Right click my computer, go to properties, advanced, Performance (click on settings), click on advanced,

What do you a have set here? Click change on Virtual memory, what are your Initial size and max size set to?

programs - 384 768

Close all that...

Click on My computer, right click on C: drive, go to properties, tools, error checking, click check now

let that run...when finished
click on deframent now, click analyze......how fraged are you (not yoru tank)

I frag weekly

go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en

download this spyware until, install, run, and run sweep with this app....best one I've used so far. It's free.....

Done ... nothing

Also....down in the system tray, what do you have running/loaded? (by the clock icons)

the above program :D wireless internet IM Norton AV Internet security

go to start/run type: winmsd

click on system summary, go to file, export.....dump to a txt file. Send me this file to my e-mail address.

ok

:-)



Thanks

[pilot_bell777]

Not bad.....

Open task manager again, go to processes. Click on Mem Use twice so it sort highest to lowest, What is takign up the most memory. Do teh same for CPU, what is taking up the most time.

IE (Clear temp files, cookies, and cache.....)

Start/Settings/Control Panel

Admin Tools, services.....what services are set to automatic, are there any set to auto that are not started, which services are started.

hard to name them

Right click my computer, go to properties, advanced, Performance (click on settings), click on advanced,

What do you a have set here? Click change on Virtual memory, what are your Initial size and max size set to?

programs - 384 768
(Your page file should start with the available memory and end with 3 x s the memory. Your case:
Initial: 768mb
Max: 2304mb

Only if you have that free on the drive you have the page file on. reboot after change.)

Close all that...

Click on My computer, right click on C: drive, go to properties, tools, error checking, click check now

let that run...when finished
click on deframent now, click analyze......how fraged are you (not yoru tank)

I frag weekly (not corals! LOL, that's good *Manually or scheduled?*)

go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

download this spyware until, install, run, and run sweep with this app....best one I've used so far. It's free.....

Done ... nothing (Good)

Also....down in the system tray, what do you have running/loaded? (by the clock icons)

the above program wireless internet IM Norton AV Internet security

(I personally would close IM unless you are using it. Not just X out of it, but right click the icon in the system tray and close it; used a TON of resources)

go to start/run type: winmsd (waiting)

click on system summary, go to file, export.....dump to a txt file. Send me this file to my e-mail address.

ok

:-)

Wireless.....what type of router? What type of connection? What type/brand of NIC? How good is the connection strength?

Connect the computer to the internet using a cable and see if it still does it. Does it hang when you try to open applciations such as Word, or IE?

[pilot_bell777]

looks like you have several NICs, is that the case or did the file get multiple reads?

[::pete::]

NIC's?

[::pete::]

Not bad.....

Open task manager again, go to processes. Click on Mem Use twice so it sort highest to lowest, What is takign up the most memory. Do teh same for CPU, what is taking up the most time.

IE (Clear temp files, cookies, and cache.....)

Always

Start/Settings/Control Panel

Admin Tools, services.....what services are set to automatic, are there any set to auto that are not started, which services are started.

hard to name them

Right click my computer, go to properties, advanced, Performance (click on settings), click on advanced,

What do you a have set here? Click change on Virtual memory, what are your Initial size and max size set to?

programs - 384 768
(Your page file should start with the available memory and end with 3 x s the memory. Your case:
Initial: 768mb
Max: 2304mb

So Im good

Only if you have that free on the drive you have the page file on. reboot after change.)[/color]

One drive unless I am not understanding

Close all that...

Click on My computer, right click on C: drive, go to properties, tools, error checking, click check now

let that run...when finished
click on deframent now, click analyze......how fraged are you (not yoru tank)

I frag weekly (not corals! LOL, that's good *Manually or scheduled?*)

Manually

go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

download this spyware until, install, run, and run sweep with this app....best one I've used so far. It's free.....

Done ... nothing (Good)

Also....down in the system tray, what do you have running/loaded? (by the clock icons)

the above program wireless internet IM Norton AV Internet security

(I personally would close IM unless you are using it. Not just X out of it, but right click the icon in the system tray and close it; used a TON of resources)

IM closed

go to start/run type: winmsd (waiting)

mailed to the address you have attached to the button below

click on system summary, go to file, export.....dump to a txt file. Send me this file to my e-mail address.

ok

:-)

Wireless.....what type of router? What type of connection? What type/brand of NIC? How good is the connection strength?

Netgear - connection? Strength is either 100% or excellent

Connect the computer to the internet using a cable and see if it still does it. Does it hang when you try to open applciations such as Word, or IE?

It doesnt do it with programs I guess I can try to hard wire.

I also have digital phone make a difference?


Jade you getting all this? :D

[pilot_bell777]

Sorry....Network Interface Cards....network cards.....wireless cards......etc, etc.....

Fix your pages file (virtual memory to the setting I provided above and you'll be good to go.)

[::pete::]

He yit seems to be a little better Ill keep you posted.
Thanks

[pilot_bell777]

Well we tweaked Pete to death and push a little more performance out of his sytem.....but now I'm starting to hang up too.......and I keep mine running perfect. (IT Engineer). THis is the only site I'm having issues with...................


Chris?????

[Chris]

The server is running relatively smooth, there are only perhaps 2 times throughout the day (peak hours) that i'm noticing any sort of high performance cycles being processed.

I've been on the forums while it's reaching it's peak in CPU % and the site still runs smooth for me without issues, yet.

I'll try to keep a closer eye on things, but thus far there aren't any huge spikes that would lead me to believe there should be an issue.

[pilot_bell777]

What about the pipe? is it getting bottlenecked?

[::pete::]

I might be tweaked, but I am hanging on this site only... still.

[::pete::]

Ok .... this really sucks ...

[::pete::]

RR

I can post a message read my mail in Outlook (well click on outlook) then come back to see my post ... its that bad!!! Only here no lag elsewhere.

[::pete::]

Ok still hanging .. I can literally edit my post before they are posted.

[Chris]

I'm having absolutely no troubles with postings.

The forum has been running relatively quickly for me despite the fact that I changed the MySQL settings a few days ago to lower cache sizes(prior to that they were increased significantly).

It wouldn't hurt if we increased our spending for additional RAM though.

Josh, any ideas maybe? :o

[SaltyJim]

Hey Pete...

All the before mentioned fixes are good, but I think the problem is with IE itself. I had some users that just cannot get some pages to load in IE, and they work fine in Firefox. You could load Firefox and test MAAST on it. I get much better response from FF anyway.

HTH

Jim

[jroescher]

And you might try Opera for a browser. It's free now. And the zoom feature and linked and tabbed pages are really neat features for browsing MAAST.

[Chris]

And you might try Opera for a browser. It's free now. And the zoom feature and linked and tabbed pages are really neat features for browsing MAAST.

I can't handle internet life without tabbed browsing. :huh :P :D

[Salty]

Mine hangs here at work using RR and Windows 2000 5.00.2195 IE 6.0.2800.1106. No problems at home with DSL and XP PRO.

[::pete::]

Joshua
Is there one site in particular you would suggest to get it at? FireFox

[::pete::]

WOW ... FireFox seems to have taken care of it.

Joshua
Should I still try the others as well?