Nightly slowdowns

[jcgoble3]

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?

[GamesAndRides]

Ive been seeing this too. When I try to re-fresh a page, Takes about 60 secs to re-fresh. Doesn't happen during the day though (Whens there's lots of people on)

EDIT: Took about 15 secs for the post to be posted.

[Diamondback FOF]

I was just thinking that this site was loading slower...and then saw this topic haha

[Dane]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll submit a ticket on it to see what I can find out.

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[razmataz99]

Shouldn't you guys be sleeping at 2 in the morning?

razmataz, yawning

[jcgoble3]

I'm a night owl. I'm usually up until about 3 or 4 in the morning, and then I don't get up until early to mid-afternoon.

[LoraX]

I would probably be a night owl if I did not have that pesky work thing getting in my way.

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[PKIVortex]

I can't stay up half the night anymore, I guess it has to do with getting older, or the fact that I'm a first shifter IDK!

[LoraX]

I have to be at work at 7:30. I live 30 minutes from work. I remember when I was young and could stay up (or stay out) all night and still go to work.

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[PKIVortex]

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.

[razmataz99]

I would probably be a night owl if I did not have that pesky work thing getting in my way.

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pshhhhh… who needs work?

[ohiocolts]

I really shouldn't be awake now, and certainly not at 2AM. I wake up at 6:20, and leave for school at 7:00.

[Ride On_17]

My natural sleep schedule is late. If I try to go to bed at 9 or 10 I'll just lie there without being able to fall asleep. Stupid school not letting me sleep in.

[TheCrypt]

I'm off school for conferences tomorrow, so I get to sleep in! We also had a half day today, which was awesome as usual.

[coasterfanatic83]

I remember when I used to sleep... those were the glory days!

[LoraX]

I would probably be a night owl if I did not have that pesky work thing getting in my way.

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pshhhhh… who needs work?

[hangs head in shame] This girl does.

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[The Interpreter]

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.

[RollerColt]

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

[Dane]

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.

[jcgoble3]

Yet three different people were seeing it, and it consistently happens at the same time every night, and doesn't affect any other site.

I call bull.

[The Interpreter]

Be careful calling bulls. What will you do if one comes to you?

[malem]

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.

[coasterfanatic83]

If it helps at all, I have also noticed a significant slowdown in this site's response time in the early morning hours.

[jcgoble3]

OK, just to rule out ISP issues, could everyone seeing this issue say what ISP they have and what general area you're in? I have AT&T U-verse in the Greater Dayton area.

[The Interpreter]

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.

[TTD-120-420]

It's currently 1:22 AM and this site is running super fast for me.

[BB1]

(the one in the Commonweath of Virginia).

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is better, just saying.

[TTD-120-420]

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?

[jcgoble3]

Use Firefox instead of Chrome?

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.

[SOBwasaSOB]

I have problems at the same times it seems others have them. This is only on mobile though. My computer has been in the shop so it is all I have to go on : (