Forum running slow

[Remy Lebeau 1674]

Anyone else having a problem with this site running very slow lately?

[EugeneK 29]

It was very slow couple of days ago for me, seems fine now

[Attila Kovacs 694]

Yes, it's slow AF.

The german forum too, it must be the server or the hosting.

 

Edited September 23 by Attila Kovacs

[Stano 146]

It's been slow for a few days for me too.

[mvanrijnen 136]

 

it's slow sometimes overhere, can not pinpoint it yet.

Most of the time it's ok. but now and then it's slow since a couple of days.

 

[DelphiUdIT 266]

For me too, even now.

[Lars Fosdal 1952]

It appears to be periodically slow.

[Lars Fosdal 1952]

@TBx - Are there any performance indicators that can be checked?

[salvadordf 40]

I've seen this problem with other forums too lately. It was caused by thousands of badly written bots and scrappers.

 

Check your server logs and see how many unregistered guests are crawling all the forum pages. 

[corneliusdavid 268]

I noticed it was slow for several days; click "unread" and it would sit there spinning for several seconds. This morning, though, it's fast like normal.

[Sherlock 688]

Ugh, AIs looking for brains..... the zombie apocalypse is upon us!

[corneliusdavid 268]

1 minute ago, corneliusdavid said:

This morning, though, it's fast like normal.

Well, it was fast until I made that comment--now it's slow again; even timed out a couple of times trying to get back to this thread to respond. GAH!

[Lars Fosdal 1952]

@TBx has identified a bot being the culprit and is taking steps to lock it out.

[Vincent Parrett 909]

Seems to be happening on and off. These forums are never fast for me - I'm about as far away as I can get from the servers without enduring the ant artic - ping time of 250ms - but pages are taking around 6s to load for the last few days. 

[Angus Robertson 689]

I get solid 30ms pings, but still the server sometimes fails to respond, just overloaded in some way, probably by AIs trying to access many years of old messages for the massive wealth of information collected here over the years.  

 

Angus

[chmichael 15]

It's slow to me for the past couple days

[Cypheros 0]

8 hours ago, Angus Robertson said:

I get solid 30ms pings, but still the server sometimes fails to respond, just overloaded in some way, probably by AIs trying to access many years of old messages for the massive wealth of information collected here over the years.  

 

Angus

Yes, copying all the information and feed their AI with it. In the near future search engines no longer need to lead people to forums and can answer the questions directly or writing the code they want. So forums and developers will no longer be needed 😢

But I know that the admin is working on it and today it should be a bit better than two days ago.
 

Edited Saturday at 05:06 PM by Cypheros

[Uwe Raabe 2222]

2 hours ago, Cypheros said:

So forums and developers will be no longer needed

And where will the AIs get the newer information then?

[dummzeuch 1735]

55 minutes ago, Uwe Raabe said:

And where will the AIs get the newer information then?

They will just make it up, as they do already.

[Rollo62 614]

Seems back to normal for me. 👍

Edited 3 hours ago by Rollo62

[DelphiUdIT 266]

47 minutes ago, Rollo62 said:

Seems back to normal for me. 👍

For me too.