just to add to the confusion, when logging this morning...





Now (at the time) looked that MySQL was taking the time...

Same here:

What are the specs for this server?

Generated in 9.441 seconds in which 0.67 seconds were spent on a total of 13 queries. Zlib compression disabled.


As it varies which subsystem are slow, there must be a lack of resources. Doubling the RAM to 1GB has improved the performance as I experience the forums. There are lots of things that can be done to tune a server and further improve it, but I think we should leave it to the sysadmin and Rick until they ask for ideas and tips (the linux geek factor is probably quite high on this forum).

What I have noticed, is that many of the anonymous users are reading quite old threads. I suppose they either find these threads trough search engines, or they perform searches locally on the server. Free text searches, as I suppose they are implemented in this forum, with mysql as a backend, can be quite resource intensive.
Personally, I found that turning off "View user's pictures with their posts?" under "Display" settings improved the performance.
I find the forums quite usable now, even if Simon posted a horrendous time yesterday.

Things are slowing down again!

It has been almost unusable this morning!

I have had blazing speed lately, except once in a great while. Meanwhile, we are working on upgrading all of our boxes at the datacenter.
Whenever that happens you can expect very good speeds.
Rick