Opensuse Forums Dead Slow

Opensuse 12.1
Guys, using Opensuse Forums is a painful experience for me at the moment. I get very long waiting times for the Forums page to load. It is almost impossible to use. In addition I may get a timeout showing in the browser window when following a thread or opening a new forum page. This is a fairly recent problem, as I have viewed the Forums for years without these delays.

Firefox can get stuck on “Waiting for forums.opensuse.org” for 10 to 15 seconds. Reloading the page only prolongs the wait. Has anyone come across similar problems?

There have been issues recently. We are waiting for a software update and issues have been worked on. I must say though, that just recently it’s been fine for me except for strange login/out issues

Yes, I’ve experienced this, and it seems to be exacerbated, (but not consistently), if I try to open a few threads simultaneously.

I find just after logging in, I get a long delay, which is sometimes helped by simply closing the page and clicking on the shortcut I have, to load it again (this time without issue).

I share your frustration.

Still watching this. This morning I notice getting to the site was quicker. However moving around the site still very slow. Is this the only Opensuse / Suse forum that you know of ? Can you suggest any others ?

This is the official openSUSE forum
I’m not aware of any others except those linked from here (Regional)
You can also use NNTP and the IRC

Very poor response times intermittently for me. I browse, and respond to posts on 3 other forums, before a forum or post link loads here.

On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:36:02 +0000, rafter22 wrote:

> Very poor response times intermittently for me. I browse, and respond to
> posts on 3 other forums, before a forum or post link loads here.

What browser are you using?

If you’re using Chrome, it might be useful if you pull up the developer
tools (CTRL+SHIFT+I) and load the page with the “network” tab open. That
might help pin down what’s slow loading in your instance, and might help
us troubleshoot the issues.

If you’re using Firefox, the httpfox extension provides similar
functionality.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

Different Firefox versions, mostly the Nightly build.

Installed HttpFox 0.8.10 (in Nightly), and will see what I can contribute.

On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:16:02 +0000, rafter22 wrote:

> Different Firefox versions, mostly the Nightly build.
>
> Installed HttpFox 0.8.10 (in Nightly), and will see what I can
> contribute.

Thanks. There’s also a header that is being sent out at the moment that
would also be helpful - in the response header, look for “ProcessingTime”

  • that along with “Via” and “Date” would be very helpful to know when you
    see a timeout.

I’m also told that the timeout issues may be specific to IPv4, so if you
have the ability to run over IPv6, it would be useful to know if you are
and seeing the performance issues when connected via IPv6.

Jim


Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

Thanks Jim.

I decided to work with Firefox Beta, instead of the Nightly version.

One hang today on

(Request-Line) GET /english/other-forums/news-announcements/ HTTP/1.1
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Date Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:59:30 GMT
ProcessingTime D=1197770
Via 1.1 forums.opensuse.org (Access Gateway-ag-6EAD06E4F4FE6B09-2068392)

I’m not sure if I can run over IPv6, but will investigate.

On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:16:02 +0000, rafter22 wrote:

> Thanks Jim.
>
> I decided to work with Firefox Beta, instead of the Nightly version.
>
> One hang today on
>
> (Request-Line) GET /english/other-forums/news-announcements/ HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/13.0 Date Sat, 02 Jun 2012 13:59:30 GMT ProcessingTime
> D=1197770 Via 1.1 forums.opensuse.org (Access
> Gateway-ag-6EAD06E4F4FE6B09-2068392)
>
> I’m not sure if I can run over IPv6, but will investigate.

Great, thanks - I’ll pass these headers along and see if that helps us
track anything.

Jim


Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

Today’s hangs.

(Request-Line) GET /english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/ HTTP/1.1
Date Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:30:48 GMT
ProcessingTime D=1389289
Via 1.1 forums.opensuse.org (Access Gateway-ag-BFC678DFBE6884C5-6349294)

(Request-Line) GET /english/other-forums/news-announcements/ HTTP/1.1
Date Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:39:27 GMT
ProcessingTime D=1177276
Via 1.1 forums.opensuse.org (Access Gateway-ag-BFC678DFBE6884C5-6424529)

(Request-Line) GET /english/other-forums/community-fun/ HTTP/1.1
Date Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:44:16 GMT
ProcessingTime D=1211171
Via 1.1 forums.opensuse.org (Access Gateway-ag-BFC678DFBE6884C5-6466403)

(Request-Line) GET /english/other-forums/community-fun/screenshots/ HTTP/1.1
Date Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:49:04 GMT
ProcessingTime D=1390881
Via 1.1 forums.opensuse.org (Access Gateway-ag-BFC678DFBE6884C5-6510894)

User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0

I have IPv6 enabled, but doubt that my ISP is providing it.

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:56:02 +0000, rafter22 wrote:

> Today’s hangs.

Thanks for this - will pass it along as well.

Jim

Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

Today’s hangs using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0

(Request-Line) GET /forum.php HTTP/1.1
Referer Get Technical Help Here
Date Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:08:56 GMT
ProcessingTime D=1712499
Via 1.1 forums.opensuse.org (Access Gateway-ag-BFC678DFBE6884C5-1349911)

(Request-Line) GET /english/other-forums/news-announcements/ HTTP/1.1
Referer Other Forums
Date Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:11:46 GMT
ProcessingTime D=1237543
Via 1.1 forums.opensuse.org (Access Gateway-ag-BFC678DFBE6884C5-1355438)

I haven’t had any hangs using Firefox 12.0, installed from YaST. Unfortunately I can’t test the latest Firefox 13.0 release, because on last check it wasn’t available in the update repository for openSUSE 12.1.

Firefox 14.0 is installed, and updated manually.

On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 15:26:03 +0000, rafter22 wrote:

> Today’s hangs

Thanks again, I’ll pass this along as well.

Jim


Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

Why don’t you try the one from mozilla repo ?
Index of /repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.4

I’m using 13.0 from this repo and didn’t experience a crash yet. To be true I never had a crash with the previous builds from this repo.

Haven’t had any crashes with Firefox from this site. Just intermittent real slow page page loading. The only one of my 30 site daily routine to exhibit this behavior.

Both Firefox and Thunderbird from the suggested repository are dated 21-April-2012. I wouldn’t exactly call those the latest release versions. If they aren’t going to be updated, even though there are security fixes, no biggie as I only install the release versions trough YaST to troubleshoot problems, and provide support.

I use the Betas, Aurora, and Nightly builds installed manually.

I know Thunderbird 14.0b1 hasn’t been released yet, but shouldn’t that repo be providing Firefox 14.0b6?

Maybe it is time for me to become a distro hopper, and explore other Linux distros. :\

Exploration is always good. I had worse firefox update experience with ubuntu than with openSUSE but that was around ubuntu version 8.10.

I have found the forum excruciatingly slow for some time now. I’m using Chrome 20.1032, although that has just been installed as an update. This is the only regular site that is as slow as this.

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:06:03 +0000, jfarrar wrote:

> I have found the forum excruciatingly slow for some time now. I’m using
> Chrome 20.1032, although that has just been installed as an update. This
> is the only regular site that is as slow as this.

How do you define “for some time now”? (Specific timeframes are more
helpful to diagnosis)

If you could open the Chrome developer tools (ctrl+shift+I) and load the
page, have a look at the headers and report back what the processingtime,
via, and date headers (after the page has finished loading), that would
be very helpful.

Thanks,

Jim


Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C