3.7 beta running very slow on live site

[Booth]

I installed the 3.7 beta 2 on my quieter live site and have found it's running very slow. I had no problem with running 3.6.8, it was very quick.

If I switch the option to not go over 5.0 (server load) in admin, the site gives the message "The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later." So that gives you an indication of how much the server load is.

Is this normal for the beta?

[Wayne Luke]

I have not noticed any appreciable load increase. Is this a dedicated server? Is traffic the same? Any problem processes on the server?

[Booth]

It's a shared server but 3.6.8 worked like a charm.

Is there any settings in admin that may have been ticked on by default which may be slowing the site down? For example I noticed that user album uploads where being stored in the database which I've now changed to a folder on the server.

[xadoa]

same here, after upgrade to 3.7b2, it takes too long.. the load increase so fast ... the 3.6.8 worked well.. even thought my server is dual xeon 3.0 16 gigs ram, 1.5 terra running on raid 5.. still slow for 3.7b2

[aff2k4]

I've personally not run into any slowness after upgrading my live site. It's working flawlessly (other than the blog upgrade which I just inquired about :p)

[Booth]

Okay an update. It seems the site is now running at an okay speed. Not as fast as 3.6.8 but not something you would complain about.

Must have been the server, but my host hasn't posted any service alerts and they usually do if the problem is more than a ten minute fix. It's been slow all day.

[Dan Simon]

You may want to try running myisamchk to clean up your indices.....the upgrade makes a number of large-scale changes to the database which will affect the indexing.

[monForum]

I can confirm a rather notable decrease in speed after the upgrade to 3.7 as well.

[Abjds.com]

I just wanted to report that we're getting increased server load as well, at least double or more what we had before, but with the same number of users and activity.

[Ranger375]

Works fine for me.

[Wayne Luke]

Okay an update. It seems the site is now running at an okay speed. Not as fast as 3.6.8 but not something you would complain about.

Must have been the server, but my host hasn't posted any service alerts and they usually do if the problem is more than a ten minute fix. It's been slow all day.

Index updates could have still been running behind the scenes from the upgrade process.

[Booth]

Index updates could have still been running behind the scenes from the upgrade process.

Thanks for letting us know, it seems to be running at 3.6.8 speed now so I have my fingers crossed that you're right. I'll see what happens when the users who couldn't get on today, come back tomorrow.

[GHOwner]

Insure you've disabled any incompatible mods as well. See if that helps. We have this on a newish live board (100+ members, usually 5+ users on constantly) and don't notice any load issues.

[HenryG2]

Could it be that the javascript has not been compressed?

[Booth]

I think it may have been a server issue, which is a real coincidence because I can't remember the last time we had a server issue. However today I've found that the server is down for 'essential server maintenance'.

So that could be the problem. Apparently there was a security upgrade to the server last weekend and there's been issues regarding it.

[skeen]

I installed the 3.7 beta 2 on my quieter live site and have found it's running very slow. I had no problem with running 3.6.8, it was very quick.

If I switch the option to not go over 5.0 (server load) in admin, the site gives the message "The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later." So that gives you an indication of how much the server load is.

Is this normal for the beta?
Seems like my performance has improved. :D

[ThorstenA]

Notice no performance difference on my forum.

[ericgtr]

Since updating I have gotten two or three cpanel emails regarding high server load, I used to never get these. It's on a dedicated box as well. For the most part it seems to be nice and fast but from time to time it seems to grind to a hault for some reason.

[Wayne Luke]

Anything more specific about the errors?

[ericgtr]

Anything more specific about the errors?
Not at the moment, by the time I get the [statscheck] Stats/Sever Overlaod email from my server It's usually passed. It appears to spike but doesn't remain. If I am able to get any more details I will let you know though.

[class101]

no changes at all here for upgrading 3.6.8 => 3.7 , and im on VPS and surveying cpu and ram and I can conffirm its does not eat much memory at all. you probably have a failing addon/plugin

[Zaiaku]

Check your mods installed. There are a few mods that actually run themselves twice or more when used on 3.7. Disable all plugins and see if you notice a performance issue. I haven't experience any slower performance yet.