I have not been to the site in a while, a few months maybe (you know how life goes).

Recently, I came back and logged in and clicked on newest nodes. My browser churned and churned and never returned. I thought the site must be misbehaving, so I figured I would come back later.

A few days later I came back and experienced the same behavior.

Today I came and clicked on newest nodes before logging in and experienced no problem. I logged in and found the same problem when I clicked on newest nodes. This time I decided I would post this message to complain.

I left the page loading on the background while I was writting this and I discovered that it did eventually load.

It took almost 10 minutes before the page finally appeared. I clicked the clear my last checked flag and now the page works fine.

My guess is that it is some how churning through the tons of nodes that I haven't seen since I have been away, but something should be tweaked as the page just takes forever to return...

-monkfish (The Fishy Monk)

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Re: Newest Nodes is extremely slow after being away from the site for a few months
by abstracts (Hermit) on May 06, 2002 at 02:09 UTC
    you might want to go to your homenode and click on 'user settings'. After that, click on 'clear my newest nodes flag'. I think your problem arises from having a zillion new nodes since the last time you logged in.
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      The trouble is with that is that it is an all-or-nothing approach. You get either 43 106 nodes, or 0. You can't specify to clear all bar the most recent n hundred.

      When you're coming back after a break, you want to see what threads are active, to see where the discussion is.

      I think a sensible addition would be a setting to say "send me no more than N newest nodes", which would translate to a LIMIT clause in the mySQL backend.


      print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u'
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      As I said in my original post. I did go ahead and clear my newest node. I was just pointing out that it was excessivly slow to load. It didn't seem to me that it shoould take so long to load in any case.

      EDIT: Chromatic, In response to the follow up... With all due respect, network speed and browser rendering time may contribute, but they are not the entirity of the problem.Go get the newest node page with 100 days of nodes with something like wget where you can watch the transaction as it proceeds and you'll see that it can be a full 2 minutes before a single byte of body data comes back. That is of course in the cases where it comes back at all. Often wget will report a premature end of headers and have to retry.

      -monkfish (The Fishy Monk)

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Re: Newest Nodes is extremely slow after being away from the site for a few months
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 06, 2002 at 05:04 UTC
    There are three things that can possibly be changed:
    • The speed of your network connection, to load megabytes of data.
    • The speed of your web browser, to render a multi-megabyte HTML file
    • Your last nodes flag, to control how many nodes to display.
    I wouldn't mind a fix for the first two, but they're not in the class of things the gods and pmdev can fix.
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