On Sep 16, 9:47 am, chuckers <chucker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:48:03 PM UTC+9, JimBreen wrote:
> > On Sep 15, 4:22 pm, chuckers <chuck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is it just me or is the site really PAINFULLY SLOW?
>
> > I see occasional slow-downs, but most of the time it's
> > fairly fast.
>
> I don't think it is just the CGI.  

No, it's all compiled C.

> Clicking on your link took about 50 seconds before the server came
> back with the top page.  Clicking on Background/Instructions to 45
> seconds to respond.  Roughly 50 seconds for the FAQ as well.  
> Clicking on a block is instantaneous but a random sentence in a
> block will take 45 seconds to respond.

I just tried and got <1 sec responses. The server itself is showing
98% idle CPU and no wait time load, so I suspect (as has happened
before) that there's a mis-configured authentication stage
inserted somewhere in Apache land. It comes and goes a bit.

Jim