SMF hangs during post

[trollngo]

Hello everyone,

I'm having this issue with my forums and i can't figure out what's wrong.
My users are complaining lately about forum hangs while trying to post a reply. Sometimes the reply it's submitted, but they seem to get a timeout and when trying to refresh - the page won't load anymore.

It happens very random and they say that for about 2-3 minutes the main page- home page, nothing won't load.
I haven't installed any mods recently either... and not sure what's happening or how can i fix it.

Help? 

[hadesflames]

Check your error log, specifically the server logs.

[trollngo]

I checked that out and I don't have any errors 

[margarett]

Can you reproduce that yourself? Can you give us a link and a test account (not admin) so that we can try?

[trollngo]

It happened to me as well. I tried to post and before the post was submitted, i was getting that white loading page and the forum seemed to be in a timeout. I tried to refresh main page and it wasn't loading either. Takes 2-3 min. to come back.

Happens really randomly...

[margarett]

I think that this might be an issue with your database getting hammered. Who's your host?

[trollngo]

My host is cyber ultra. net
I have other sites hosted by them and there are no problems

[Shambles]

Try turning off "hostname lookups" in your admin panel.

[trollngo]

I disabled that. Waiting to see results. I can't even check it out proper since it's happening totally random.

[Storman™]

I have other sites hosted by them and there are no problems

That means nothing, that site might be on a node thats oversubscribed, you could ask your host to migrate you to another one.

[trollngo]

Try turning off "hostname lookups" in your admin panel.

It didn't worked. I just had a hang while trying to make a post
And it's suspicious because there were no members online for the server to be overload or something... it just happened.

[Illori]

are you on a shared server or a VPS/dedicated server? if shared it could be an overloaded server and someone else on the server is causing the load to be high(er).

[kat]

Can you give us a link and a test account (not admin) so that we can try?

[trollngo]

Can you give us a link and a test account (not admin) so that we can try?

Yes, sure. But it happens really at random times. I tried post spamming from an account and it didn't happened.
But give it a look: trollngo.com
logins: Support; pass: asdasdasd

I still have disable the : host lookups

[kat]

OK. Just gonna try some random "Test" replies, which I'll delete, when I'm done.

[trollngo]

OK. Just gonna try some random "Test" replies, which I'll delete, when I'm done.

Sure, no problem Don't waste your time, i can remove them as well when you're done.

Thank you very much, i appreciate it!

[kat]

Interesting. When my eyes had gone back to normal, after the flashing that occurs, when I scroll the window (EEK!), I made four replies and every one was damned quick! A LOT faster than they go, here.

Opera v12.18.

I'll just try some other browsers (I have a LOT!).

[kat]

Damned fast with Avant. Just gonna try Lunascape...

[trollngo]

Interesting. When my eyes had gone back to normal, after the flashing that occurs, when I scroll the window (EEK!), I made four replies and every one was damned quick! A LOT faster than they go, here.

Opera v12.18.

I'll just try some other browsers (I have a LOT!).

It think it's happening!!

[trollngo]

confirmed. I just had a hang...