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I'm often on here late at night, and I have noticed for quite a while that at about 2:00 AM every night, the forums slow way, way down to the point of being almost unusable. During this time, waiting 30 to 60 seconds for a forum or thread to load is common, and tonight I had to wait two full minutes for the off-topic forum to load. This happens at the same time every night, and everything goes back to normal around 2:20 to 2:30 AM every night. What's going on? Given the regular schedule, I'm guessing that it has something to do with the nightly backup, possibly utilizing too many system resources on the server. Could that be it, or is it something else?

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I work Monday through Friday from 7am till 4pm, usually unless hours have been cut or I have to come in early to do major changes to departments. So even when I'm off on the weekends I still can't stay up late. I used to have a 45 minute drive to work, but that changed in November when I transferred to a closer store and now I only have a 20 minute drive.

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Some even work years after they could retire and sashay half way across the country to keep working...more than once even.

And there is certainly no shame in needing work.

Some retire on the couch, then post some more on the journey to the bed.

And some have sporadic slowdowns on this site (and ONLY this site) when accessed by phone, with virtually no regard to the hour.

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Thank you for calling the Help Desk, how may I close your ticket today?

I can see no issues on your VPS, so it is possible that it was simply related to some network issues in the network map between your visitors ISP and our server. As you know, sometimes it happens.
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I experienced this slowness a couple times this week. I don't think it was a network issue, as TCP connections were handshaking quickly.

For what it's worth, the most common cause for this type of issue on a VPS is an OOM condition, though other bottlenecks are certainly possible. Since it's at ~2:00am, maybe there's a late-night cron job that's causing issues.

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I particularly have the issue at the stated times, but also from time to time during the day. This with Verizon Wireless (and ONLY on this site do I have such problems) regardless of whether I am in DC, rural Virginia, Bethesda, Baltimore or Richmond (the one in the Commonweath of Virginia).

I've also tried from friends' phones on AT&T, Sprint and small, local cellular providers. Same issue. This with both Apple and Samsung phones of numerous generations.

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This isn't related, but I continue to get this message on just about every website I go to.

"A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.

Script: chrome://global/content/editMenuOverlay.js:16"

When this does pop up it freezes everything for a while and runs really slow.

How do I make it stop?

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Use Firefox instead of Chrome? :P

More seriously, something on line 16 of chrome://global/content/editMenuOverlay.js is causing problems. I get a page not found error when I try to open that file in Chrome, so it's likely that this is a file used by one of your extensions. Click the menu button in the upper right and go to Tools > Extensions (or just paste chrome://extensions/ into your address bar), and disable extensions one at a time until the problem goes away (you may need to restart the browser after each one for the disabling to take effect). The last one disabled is the one causing the problem; the rest can be re-enabled. Check to see if there are any updates for the problem extension, as the developers may have already fixed the bug.

If the problem persists after all extensions have been disabled, paste chrome://global/content/editMenuOverlay.js into your address bar, copy the first 30 to 40 lines, click the "code" button on the edit window here (the button that looks like <>), paste the code into the box provided, and hit OK and post it. Somebody here might be able to figure out what it is; often code files will contain comments at the top that identify what the file is for.

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