New server, new software, curious pause before forum loads.

[Deimos]

Hello all

I noticed since moving to a new server (Fedora core 4, pentium 2.8ghz, 1gb of ram) that when the forum is first loaded, there's a strange pause for about 1-3 seconds before data starts being downloaded to my browser?

No one else who uses it, has said anything, so it might be just my PC, but, the old server doesn't have that issue and is in the same data centre with the same company

The forum itself is at www.uoforums.com

Can some people load it for me and see if they get the same?
I "think" it only happens on the main page.

[eva2000]

first time loaded got white blank page

second time loaded yes lags for a few seconds

maybe post info asked at http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70117 to see if we can help

[kmike]

Probably a reverse DNS lookup? Check that HostnameLookups is off in your httpd.conf.

[Deimos]

Thanks Eva

1) dedicated server

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
1GB Ram
80GB IDE
Fedora Core 4
Apache/1.3.34 (Unix)
PHP/4.4.1
MySQL - 4.0.25

Top stats, not sure what you need?

Record online users 461 (06-05-2005 10:29 PM)
Threads: 5,653, Posts: 46,946, Members: 494, Active Members: 115

MyCNF readout

[mysqld]
skip-innodb
max_connections = 650
key_buffer = 16M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 64M
join_buffer_size = 1M
read_buffer_size = 1M
sort_buffer_size = 2M
table_cache = 1024
thread_cache_size = 64
wait_timeout = 10800
connect_timeout = 10
tmp_table_size = 32M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
max_connect_errors = 10
query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_size = 32M
query_cache_type = 1


Extended status - http://www.uoboards.com/ext.php

8) Server also hosts small sites, which do use mysql
9) average is about 10? max at about 20, not many

PHP info - http://www.uoboards.com/phpi.php

Keepalive - on
maxkeepaliverequests - 100
Keepalivetimeout - 15
minspareservers - 5
maxspareservers - 10
startservers - 5
maxclients - 150

VB 3.5.0 Gold

13) No files are that size

[Deimos]

Probably a reverse DNS lookup? Check that HostnameLookups is off in your httpd.conf.

It's off

I was thinking it might be something to do with the dns stuff, but I wouldn't know where to look.

I've noticed other sites also seem to have the same problem on that server

www.uoportal.com for instance
yet this one, www.uobannerexchange.com loads instantly

Odd....

[Deimos]

Ran a quick check, the DNS name server for the primary name server (ns1.worthingweb.com) was pointing at the wrong IP, not sure how or why, but I corrected that ,but it's stil the same delay

[eva2000]

Ran a quick check, the DNS name server for the primary name server (ns1.worthingweb.com) was pointing at the wrong IP, not sure how or why, but I corrected that ,but it's stil the same delay
it it 24-48hrs to correct itself and see

[Deimos]

Thanks again Eva, much appreciated!

[eva2000]

whoops meant to say give it 24-48hrs but yeah no probs :)