30 minutes of slowdown -

I experience a 30 minute long time of slowing down in a regularly recurring time frame, approximately from 10.06 to 10.36 CET. Does anyone else also?

I suggest you seek out a physicist that specializes in general relativity theory... sounds like a serious issue with the time/space continuum there...

Tapati also noted something along those lines to me. I'll have to try and get to the bottom of this. With my connection here in India, I have a hard time noticing when it slows down... Braja, any clues?

So the time would be then 14.36-15.06 (GMT+05.30) for me.

Ah we talking AM or PM? If PM, I'm a good boy so I'm in bed before then so I won't be doing any live monitoring

I'll put my thinking cap on later and see if I can come up with something. I know that loibazaar.com (on the same server) is getting crawled a lot lately--google, msn and a bunch of others but they all seem pretty good in staggering their crawls.

On second thought, I noticed that these perturbations in the time-space are confined only to the computer - I just too much extended my ahankara to it, that I self-identified with the Chanahari character.

Yeah, it is only the GD which slows down.

And according to the geography atlas, Madhava is right.

Edit: It is AM here.

I do. About same time of the day, Central European time. And it's only GD. I figured it's perhaps Madhava's regular time to do maintenance...
But for me it is worse than slowdown. It it so excruciatingly slow that I have never had the patience to wait it out. I was pretty sure I would get an error message in the end anyway.

One time I actually let it go on trying to load and did get a time out error message.

It is so slow it prevents me from even logging out. If I try, it doesn't go through. When I come back later I am still logged in.

Very strange and certainly network related. While 12am-2pm Eastern Standard is the busiest time of the day at GD, the increase isn't huge, i.e. we get around 6% of our traffic each hour during that period.

When you get a slowdown, would you mind also trying the following sites to see if you have trouble with them also:

Just some random bookstore selling interesting stuff

Some random site with original Gaudiya texts

Let me also see if I can find an online traceroute tool so you can trace from your location to the server. It will show where the connection problem is.

Please try picking your country and/or one of the services physically located near you (or better still, your own ISP) from the traceroute tools here and post the results when you have trouble with GD. (No point doing it when you aren't having a problem.)

@ braja:

none of your links work in that time.

I suppose they don't work because you are trying to click on them FROM the GD. At GD nothing works. I guess we have to save these links elsewhere and then try them when the GD gets slow.

Normally an external link would work even if the internal links on the site itself are slowed down to a crawl.

I think these links were suggested because they share a server or web provider, and Braja was trying to see if the problem is GD itself, or the provider on which it is located.

I didn't have time tonight to do any tests as I got into some other project, but I did also bookmark those sites and may try tomorrow.

I NOTICED this too and it happens every day from between 4 am and 5 am, montreal time, and it lasts about 30 minutes.

This slowdown happened last night, again between 4 and 4:30 Eastern Time, I actually let it keep trying to get to GD and stopped it after 7 minutes of hourglass symbol. I had bookmarked those other two sites, and tried them--same thing. I hadn't bookmarked a traceroute link however.

Then of course when I got there the sql error happened soon after. I checked my inbox and that was all I could do.

Other sites were just fine.

I have dsl.

Well, in this morning's slowdown I got to loibaazar but not granthamandira or gaudiya discussions. Go figure.

Aha! Thanks for that. My guess is that the log files are being generated then. As this site has a ton more traffic (and content) it's causing a slowdown as the log files are probably huge. I'll do some research. (Of course, GGM isn't huge but it is php-based so perhaps it's something to do with that...)


...The logs are generated at 4:05 am Eastern Standard time. Looks like we have the culprit.

We should spread this out throughout the day. Argh. Can't imagine myself doing it just now, not until I get my Reliance back anyway. We're swapping a single GPRS phone with Yugal now.