spotlight server slow?

it was as slow for me in the office today as it is in our house. that's using xp and ie8. the mrs' laptop is fast using w7 and ie8
 
ok i am taking the last few news posts off the top. let me know how it is
 
ha that didn't make any difference to me - i just got slammd with a really slow load. hmmm. trying to take off the banner now
 
wasn't that either. i have more information now thanks - the tech team are looking into it. really sorry - promise to get fixed asap
 
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Has always been fine for me on Windows 7 and Mozilla.

Connected from the UK, but also using a Dutch VPN.

However, today it's noticeably slower.
 
i've tracked it down to this peculiar anomaly, perhaps others can confirm/deny:

when i surf between forums or click on thread titles, it is very quick. however, when i try to refresh a page manually in the browser it slows to a crawl. is this behaviour repeated for others?

e.g. click on these links - they load super fast for me. but if you try to refresh/reload any of those page it is very slow

http://www.spotlight-forums.com/showthread.php?t=69354
http://www.spotlight-forums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1
http://www.spotlight-forums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8
 
That's not it for me. 5 second load, 3 second re-load.
All of those load and reload quickly. But as noted above, it's always fast for me here at the office.

At home it's much much slower (despite a very high speed broadband line)
 
incredible. i logged on, it was slow opening two threads and then it's lightning fast
 
True! At home now, where it's been dragging for a while now, and the speed is back to normal.

What was the problem in the end?
 
I was one of the lucky ones,except for refresh which was rather sluggish,now instant.
thanks james.
 
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Apache on FreeBSD should have the KeepAlive directive set to 'off'

hope that helps john ;)
 
off the top of my head...

something to do with the web server (apache) waiting around doing nothing the whole time keeping open connections for individual users. where as actually, after a page has finished loading it should terminate that process and go help someone else load a page.

because there are only so many connections possible for a web server (visitors to the webpage, ltd by ram), if these connections are hanging around doing nothing, apache quickly runs out of possible connections which leads to new visitors having to wait around whilst the page loads and apache finds some resources.

more or less :)
 
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