Hi,
My site http://news.beiruter.com" suddenly slowed down.

I'm using 4.7.0 Apache php5 mysql 4.4.. and for almost 6 months now everything was going smooth. Since last week, i noticed the site is loading verry slowly.. actually, the title of the page apear very quickly in the browser.. but then nothing.. it takes up to a minute for the rest to load. You can try it.. it works for all the pages of the site.. almost all the time. Almost coz sometimes it just loads regularly.

Cron runs every 30 mins if it makes a diff...

The modules i have activated are search, forum, gsitemap, locale, taxonomy throttle and aggreagator2 which is workin good.

It's all been working quite nicely in the same config for weeks.. and i have another site running on the same codebase.. the other site is runnin fine..

I tried optimizing tables in the database.. but to no avail.

Anyone has any idea how to fix it.. or at least know what is causing this slowdown?

thanks.

Comments

zis’s picture

One more thing i forgot to mention. i have caching activated.

stevecrozz’s picture

maybe you should try posting a large file inside a directory on you web host and accessing it outside of drupal noting any unusually slow bandwidth.

my first guess is a connection slowdown somewhere between you and your web host

deekayen’s picture

I clicked your link, browsed around, and didn't notice any significant speed problems. Perhaps you have local connection problems. Even your sIFR stuff came up pretty quick.

To plug my own module, you could optimize your busy tables on every cron run if you want: http://drupal.org/node/41588

I use DB Maintenance to optimize accesslog, cache, history, search_total, sessions, and watchdog on every cron run.

zis’s picture

Thanks for your replies everyone. Actually i tried something yesterday and seems that it worked. I noticed the cache table getting huge overheads very quickly. In a couple of hours the overhead got to 6MB for 500 nodes.. After optimizing the table things where better. But I'm not sure that's the problem coz if i remember well cache is only served to guests.. so if a member is browsing, is the cache table used?
as for network problem its the first thing that came to mind but as i said i have another site running on the same drupal codebase that running very smooth. directory.beiruter.com. And other sites on the same server not running on drupal. Another thing that makes me think that the problem is from the cache is that the content of the page is appear all at once which i think shows that it's gziped..
Anyhow i'll try disable cache and using dbmaintenance to see what happens. If anyone has any other suggestions...

Thanks in advance