In the last couple of weeks or so, ILX has gotten ridiculously, painfully slow to load for me at home (where I usually use Firefox, but it's also bad with IE.) At work, IE continues to run it at a rapid pace. Wierd, but that's how it's been. I've noticed that it seems especially slow on threads with the 'skipped posts' box, but it's still very slow if I click the 'show all messages' link. I don't recall the exact date this started, I'm afraid - I was hoping it would just go away, y'know? In any case, it hasn't, and doesn't seem to have gotten worse, either. Just stayed slow. I haven't noticed a stampede of people bitching about it (and if there were a lot of people who had it this bad, believe me, you'd have heard) so it's probably something on my end. Any notions?
― Oilyrags, Friday, 14 September 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)
what does it say in the bottom corner of the browser, is it "looking up" or is it "waiting for" or "transferring data from?"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 14 September 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)
"transferring data from"
― Oilyrags, Friday, 14 September 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)
well shit. Sometimes that, sometimes "read"
― Oilyrags, Friday, 14 September 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)
huh. how big is yr browser cache set to?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 14 September 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)
i called it
― sanskrit, Friday, 14 September 2007 02:46 (eighteen years ago)
What OS are you using at home?
― stet, Friday, 14 September 2007 03:04 (eighteen years ago)
>how big is yr browser cache set to?
50 megs, and for what it's worth, my hard drive is way overfull, around 90%.
> What OS are you using at home?
2000 Professional
― Oilyrags, Friday, 14 September 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)
if your HD is 90% full - this is bad for your C drive btw
1. Are you having similar issues with any other programs?
2. When did you last defragment?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 14 September 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)
> if your HD is 90% full - this is bad for your C drive btw
I know, but I mean to replace this old hunkajunka box soon.
> 1. Are you having similar issues with any other programs?
No, nor with other sites.
> 2. When did you last defragment?
been too long, at least a few months.
So yeah, I already know I should burn off a bunch of data to disc and defrag.
― Oilyrags, Friday, 14 September 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)
Tom -- is that related to fragmentation?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 15 September 2007 00:42 (eighteen years ago)
I was just thinking it might be a client side cache problem.
once your drive gets close to 90% full your head travel times get ridiculous and any fragmentation that is there turns into nasty round trips all the way across the platter
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 September 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)
and if you think about that last remaining 10% as what you have to use for swap and cache space bcz it's your OS boot drive or the only drive you have, you're increasing the wear and tear by quite a bit beyond what the OEM had in mind when they told the UL or whoever that it should last x amount of years before component failure
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 September 2007 05:27 (eighteen years ago)
but that's off topic