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Megahertz · 2006-12-21T17:02:57

Is it just me or does gamedev.net seem horribly slow to navigate? It's taking upwards of 7 seconds to open a page (mainly I just browse the forums) I don't recall things being this slow, say, 6mo. to a year ago. I'm wanting to say its the ads because most of the background page loads, then it loads an ad and I see down in the status bar its sitting there waiting on a response from whatever server the ad is hosted from. Once the ad stuff is done the rest of the page shows up. Anybody else getting this too? -=[ Megahertz ]=- P.S. I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.7 on Windows XP

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Started by Megahertz October 19, 2006 04:36 PM

36 comments, last by dave 17 years, 4 months ago

erjo

133

November 23, 2006 10:27 AM

Just a small tip, if I may...

Assuming the webserver this is running on is an IIS(I can't remember, although I have seen the error pages), changing the extensions on the asp files to aspx will make it use the newer, snappier asp.net engine. It will compile the pages instead of interpret them each and every visit, like asp classic does. The only actual code change needed is to put braces() on all method calls, such as response.write or server.createobject(aka, response.write("hello")...). The .net engine will default the language to VB and all will be well.

Also, I seem to remember seeing JET engine errors from time to time. That means Access. Bad database. Change. Please.

Regards,
Eric

superpig

1,826

November 23, 2006 02:43 PM

Quote:Original post by erjo
Also, I seem to remember seeing JET engine errors from time to time. That means Access. Bad database. Change. Please.

God knows where you were seeing those, as we certainly don't use Access for the main site database...

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erjo

133

November 24, 2006 04:21 AM

I almost figured as much, but something on here has used Access, atleast in the past. It might've been the pollsystem actually... The connection calls to JET are blocking and slows everything down. I do know that I haven't gotten those errors in a long time though(a year or so atleast).

Regards,
Eric

Daishim

245

November 27, 2006 11:55 AM

For me, the site was taking sometimes 15-30 seconds to load a page. It is now down to approximately 2-5 seconds. Whatever you did, seems to have helped quite a bit.

I know only that which I know, but I do not know what I know.

aidan_walsh

739

December 21, 2006 12:09 PM

I don't know about anyone else, but for the last few days I have had to try to reconnect a number of times on more than a few occasions to be able to see a page. I am just given a white page, with no activity on the server at all. When I do get my pages the load times are pretty fast, but its irritating to have to hit refresh four or five times to have to get anything at all.

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Driv3MeFar

1,080

December 21, 2006 12:24 PM

Quote:Original post by aidan_walsh
I don't know about anyone else, but for the last few days I have had to try to reconnect a number of times on more than a few occasions to be able to see a page. I am just given a white page, with no activity on the server at all. When I do get my pages the load times are pretty fast, but its irritating to have to hit refresh four or five times to have to get anything at all.

Ditto.