[Solved] AOO forum website very slow to respond

[crusader]

After a hiatus of more than a year, yesterday i logged back to this forum. I was immediately struck by how s-l-o-w the forum's website was. I thought it was my laptop, even though other websites were responding "normally." To make doubly sure, I logged in using my desktop (a much more powerful machine) - with the same results. I figured yesterday was a "bad day" for the forum's website, so I waited overnight to see if the forum's website responds better. Today is no better than yesterday; I am not having slow responses from any of the other sites I visit - on both machines.

Am I missing something? Is there something I need to do? Am I the only one experiencing this (very) slow response when I use this forum's website?

Suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

[MrProgrammer]

Am I the only one experiencing this (very) slow response when I use this forum's website?

Poor access to forum website
Forum pages load slowly
Site very slow for a few days
Anyone else having problems connecting to forum?

Suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

I'm a guest here just like you. I don't think anyone here can fix whatever the problem is, or if anyone even knows what's causing it. This happens from time to time. I just open a new browser tab in Safari and do some other work, then check back on the forum page a few minutes later. Or I find some other things to do while pages load. Just now I washed some dishes.

[crusader]

It feels good to know the website is not singling me out because I took a one year+ vacation

As for your guestship, MrProgrammer, it can only be revered: sharing your knowledge and voluntarily helping others is a magnanimous quality.

[robleyd]

I've asked the relevant people to have a look at the issue.

[RoryOF]

Seems improved now (09:22 UTC) - about 6 secs instead of 60 secs, but possibly more improvement to come?

[Lupp]

Just (2025-01-13 11:06 UTC) reloaded THIS topic.
The reload needed >20 s. That's uncommon for me. A few days ago such a reload was finished next to instantly.

[keme]

Response times vary considerably, from <5 s to >60 s for loading this thread here.

I've asked the relevant people to have a look at the issue.

Good to know that it is communicated to powers that be

[RoryOF]

Yes, it seems to have slipped back to about 20 seconds (by counting hippopotamuses).

The room here is now full of hippos, and they are all starting to sing the Hippopotamus song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjnOj9O16_I

[dave2wave]

I've restarted the php and web services on the box.

It seems to have been trouble involved the wiki.

If anyone wishes to help be a sysadmin know that you need to be a committer to the Apache OpenOffice project before you can join the Sysadmin team.

[RoryOF]

Still slow - about 22 secs per page.

[dave2wave]

I see. It may be a few hours before I can get back to figuring out what is happening with syntax highlighting on the wiki (which shares resources with the forum)

[RoryOF]

Now (Monday 13 Jan '24, 20:00 UTC) Forum is extremely fast. Thanks for the fix.

[Hagar Delest]

Thanks Dave for the fix indeed, much appreciated!

[dave2wave]

Whatever was slowing things down seems to have cleared. Yeah \8/

Currently I check my emails once or twice a day, but am much more connected on the asf slack. If some of you would like an invite we do have #openoffice channel.