Strange forum response speed behaviour

[amiranda]

Hi, i'm a newbie and i'm having a problem with smf.

I installed and customized my forum a bit, but i'm not running any accelerator. Mostly it's a clean install.

The problem is: when a user is logged on (admin, for instance), the speed that a page takes to create (i've enabled the create time display) is less than 1sec.
When there is no logon (guest), the time is typically 28sec + a few milliseconds.
The 28secs are a constant, therefore i think this may be some simple problem i'm not figuring out.

Anyone has any ideas to try?

PS. I'm testing the above response times using the same remote connection.

[Ben_S]

Is it the same refresh after refresh?

[amiranda]

If i understood what you meant, i tryed refreshing many times, the same page, and i get the following results when not loged on:

28,606 seconds with 8 queries
28,603 seconds with 8 queries
28,609 seconds with 8 queries
28,659 seconds with 8 queries
...

The rest of the results are alike. You can see what I mean by the 28secs being a constant...

Then I did the same test, in the same forum page, but this time logged on as admin. The results are:

0.102 seconds with 5 queries
0.106 seconds with 7 queries
0.104 seconds with 7 queries
0.103 seconds with 7 queries
...

[amiranda]

Just to add a few more info:

I'm using SMF 1.1 RC2

[amiranda]

Even a bit more of info:

I've been testing the forum server with other users, and all users except admin seem to have the 28+ sec delay, not only guest, as posted above.

Any ideas why is this happening?

[Ben_S]

Whats the url to the forum?

[amiranda]

http://sdskforum.no-ip.org [nofollow]

[Ben_S]

Got a link to status.php? You can get it fromt his topic http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=49999.0

[amiranda]

I had already checked on that topic previously. Anyway i can't seem to find the file status.php.
My link should be http://sdskforum.no-ip.org/status.php?php [nofollow] if i understood the instructions in the post. I don't have a subdir, as my index.php is in: http://sdskforum.no-ip.org/index.php. [nofollow]

Right now i don't have access to the server, as i am at work. As soon as i get home i can access the server and try to find the status.php file.

I'll post back when I've made any achivement.

Anyway, thanks for the fast help provided!!

[Ben_S]

status.php is attached to the first post in http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=49999.0 you need to download it and upload it to your server.

[amiranda]

Lol... once again your right!

I should know better than posting without paying attention to other posts. 

Anyway, status.php is up and running at http://sdskforum.no-ip.org/status.php?php [nofollow]
There is a lot of info there that i must pay attention to. Hope you can get anything out of it, i'll try to figure it out now by myself right now.

Thanks once more.

[amiranda]

Well, by looking at status.php and status.php?php I couldn't figure out anything special. But i'm just a newbie to smf so maybe an experienced opinion may help me solve the problem.

http://sdskforum.no-ip.org/status.php [nofollow]

Right now i've managed to avoid the timeouts and blank pages by waiting 60sec before any timeout.
Having the 28sec delay i said above, the 30sec timeout i had previously set in php.ini made it really easy for lots of timeouts, due to the small margin of <2 sec.

So, the forum is working, but i still get those strange 28sec delays when i'm not logged on as admin...

[Ben_S]

It shouldn't make any difference but try disabling host name lookup.

[amiranda]

Ok Ben. Once again i'm at work, so i'll try it out as soon as i get home.

[amiranda]

I haven't tryed disabling host name lookup yet, but i think i may add this extra info:

I get this slowdows as soon as i logout as admin. The forum behaviour is like this: I open it as a guest, and all pages respond slowly (>28sec). Then I log as admin, and all pages respond in less than 1 sec. As soon as I logout, everything goes back to turtle speed and timeouts.
If i logon with another user than admin, it's always slow.

I would say that it should be something that can be customized to admin and different to other users. ?!?! Any ideas?

[amiranda]

  aaarrrgghhhh

I still haven't solved my delay problem...

My next step will be to do a clean install of apache 2 and php 5 and mysql...

But to give it a last try, how do i disable host name lookup, Ben?

My ignorance... 

[minskog]

HostnameLookups Off <- in apache configuration file (apache2.conf in debian, httpd.conf in centos), but this is the default value (Off)

[Ben_S]

It's probably in admin > features and options

[uclaros]

Hi all,
Sorry for hijacking a dead topic, but I have exactly the same problem.
Forum only works normaly for the logged administrator. All other access gets the delay, around 22 seconds in my case...
i'm using:
SMF 1.1RC2
apache 2.0.50
MySQL 4.0.20
HostnameLookups Off
on a local network mandrake linux 10.1 installation - no internet.
The problem persists even from the linux box browser.

Any news on this one? amiranda?

[baskin]

I'm having as well the same problem. The delay for me is 5-6 secs. Admin user has 0.5 secs.

I'm using
joomla 1.0.11
SMF 1.1RC3
bridge 1.1.6
apache 2.0.54
myql 4.1.13
php 5.0.4

Does anyone knows something about this?

[baskin]

Sorry guys, my mistake.

I was sure that i had disabled hostnamelookups, but i didn't.

So everything is ok.

Thanks again.

[slade24]

Disabling host name lookups worked for me.

I'm on a shared host (which is running IIS, blech I know, but I'm kinda stuck with it), and I figured that might have something to do with it, but it seemed odd that everything was fast as an admin and slow otherwise. I went through everything to find this topic.

Anyway, thanks.

[jerm]

So are you still having issues then?