Recent slow performance

[Tim Stephenson (Archant IS)]

Everyone

As you've hopefully already been able to see, the site's performance is now back to normal speeds.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused by the slowness over the last few days.

For the more technically minded, we've been migrating our websites from running under .NET 1.1 across to .NET 2.0 to pave the way for some major server farm upgrades planned over the next few weeks / months. This redistributed the load across our server farm and unfortunately it's just become apparent that we had not reallocated server resources for our application pools to match the new expected load. As a result the webserver machines were trying to run with more concurrent web server processes than was really practical on quad-processor servers, and they were spending around 80% of available processing time switching between processes rather than actually serving web pages.

This issue has now been corrected and the updated configuration rolled out across the server farm.

Regards

[Chancer]

I am pleased to say that not being technically minded (in the computer sense) I havn't got a clue what you are talking about but things are now much faster.

[Bugsy]

Thanks Tim,

[Pierre ZFP]

I'm pleased to say that I am technically minded (in the computer sense) and I do understand the problem.  Difficult to find, not easy to fix so well done. These things are always lurking in the background ready to bite you in the bum.

[Georgina]

Yes, still having loading problems today.
Georgina

[Tim Stephenson (Archant IS)]

[quote user="Georgina"]Yes, still having loading problems today.

Georgina[/quote]

Georgina,

Can you let me know what seems to be the problem? Are all websites slow to access for you at the moment or just the forums?

Thanks

Tim