in reply to PM currently very slow, caused empty post? (updated)

G'day haukex,

It's also very slow for me. Most pages seem to take one or two minutes to display: usually they're almost instantaneous (perhaps taking no more than one or two seconds). I found this delay when accessing SoPW pages, home nodes and when /msging.

I typically use www.perlmonks.org so tried pinging. No loss of packets nor inordinately long round-trips. Here's an example: 

$ ping -c8 www.perlmonks.org
PING perlmonks.org (66.39.54.27): 56 data bytes
...
--- perlmonks.org ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 232.229/243.981/262.892/14.298 ms

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For (round-trip) comparison: 

$ ping -c8 www.w3.org
...
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 306.841/322.102/337.676/14.735 ms

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I then tried some pages with www.perlmonks.net. The page loading delay was much the same. Again, ping indicated no loss of packets and round-trip values were similar to www.perlmonks.org: 

$ ping -c8 www.perlmonks.net
PING perlmonks.com (209.197.123.153): 56 data bytes
...
--- perlmonks.com ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 230.067/241.473/259.663/13.811 ms

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I did note *.net → *.com. I don't know if that's significant.

I also tried a few webpages from other sites. These all loaded fine within a second or two.

I've no idea whether it's related (or even relevant) but the the timezone issue from a few days ago (noted in Tidings) remains unresolved: my timestamps all indicate 15 hours in the past and "Timezone Settings" show exactly the same date and time for all timezones.

— Ken

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Re^2: PM currently very slow, caused empty post? (updated)
by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 05, 2016 at 20:51 UTC

    Perlmonks uses three machines and two of them are currently getting hammered by machines claiming to be search engines. I've blocked these in some way, but there seem to be other problems as my webhoster can't make a TCP connection to Pair.com.

    This is completely unrelated to the timezone settings. I'll post a notice once I've restored the timezone settings.

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      nasty noisy breakers prefere weekends for ddos et similia when good 'ol hacker like you and others want just relaxing bringing the camel on the field

      thanks Corion for yor work!

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      Thanks for the feedback.

      I tried pair.com from my browser. It resolved to https://www.pair.com/ and took about five minutes or so to load; however, the layout appeared to have issues and images were missing.

      I reloaded several times with varying degrees of success. Each attempt took many minutes (except for one which seemed to have no CSS at all). I finally got what appeared to be a reasonable layout with just one image, https://www.pair.com/img/render-shared.png, missing (although, I was able to download this separately).

      I also tried pinging it. This seemed to be fine and I got similar values to those I reported for PM above.

      — Ken

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      I've just seen the update in Tidings (posted a few hours ago). Timestamps now appear correctly and "Timezone Settings" are back to normal. Thanks for all your work on this.

      — Ken

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