BIS Forums Getting Slow?

[-Martin-]

Is it just me or are the forums getting slower every day? I remember last week the speed wasn't so great but it was OK it took me about 10 seconds to load the forums but over the last 3 days the forums have gotten so slow, I have to wait about 2 minutes for the page to load completely and sometimes it doest even load :sad:

What's going on, is it just a lot of traffic because of the new ArmA 2 patch?

[Noraf]

that, and the preload release of arrowhead ;) guess the lines abre being put to good use, and then some.....

[[APS]Gnat]

Extremely slow :(
Its getting annoying.

[Fishercat]

Same problem here, thought it was my ISP. On another note when I downloaded update 1.05-1.07 the speed started out normal but by the end it was at 24.7. I have DSL but a friend of mine in the next town had the same problem with cable. I think that was from Armaholic.

[nettrucker]

Same problem here.
Maybe it might be due to heavy traffic.
kind regards

[Infam0us]

Hi all, yes it does indeed seem slower.

Kind Regards Infam0us

[Cole]

Hm. Must be the fact that I'm in Czech Republic, but for me the forums load just okay. 2 Seconds to load anything..

[***LeGeNDK1LLER***]

getting slow?yes unfortunately :(

is becoming boring to switch from a thread to a another .

[ProfTournesol]

Hm. Must be the fact that I'm in Czech Republic, but for me the forums load just okay. 2 Seconds to load anything..

You're lucky, for me it takes 10 to 15 seconds each time, and it's going worse.

[Zipper5]

Yes, it's definitely getting slower.

[Sanctuary]

Usually when a patch for a bis game was released, the amount of people visiting the board increased a lot, and certainly because of this additional load on the server, the board slowed down most of the time.

This week have seen not only an ArmA2 patch released, but the next bis game, the OA expansion to ArmA2 released too, so it is not really a surprise to see sometime the page loading very slowly.
In a day or two it should go back to normal like it usually does after the initial heavy traffic augmentation.

[-Martin-]

I hope it will resume to normal speed as soon as possible, first I thought someone is using my internet connection but when I loaded other websites they worked normally :laugh:

BIS should really update its server or their internet speed, something is causing a bottleneck, I cant even download the patch my speed is around 10kb/s :sad:


Usually when a patch for a bis game was released, the amount of people visiting the board increased a lot, and certainly because of this additional load on the server, the board slowed down most of the time.

This week have seen not only an ArmA2 patch released, but the next bis game, the OA expansion to ArmA2 released too, so it is not really a surprise to see sometime the page loading very slowly.
In a day or two it should go back to normal like it usually does after the initial heavy traffic augmentation.

Yeah that's true, but BIS could have been a bit more prepared for this, 10kb/s is a bit too slow...

[Deadfast]

Hm. Must be the fact that I'm in Czech Republic, but for me the forums load just okay. 2 Seconds to load anything..

Not an issue here either. It seems to be a little bit slower but it still is the fastest forum I visit.

[Placebo]

Bit slower for me but no great shakes, I always open 5 or 6 threads at once in separate tabs and read one whilst another's loading, reading one thread at a time is archaic ;)

[Tinker]

Usually instant for me. Last 2-3 days, anywere between 10 and 20 seconds per page.

[Infam0us]

Fix it!

[LockJaw-65-]

I have noticed a big slow down also

[-Martin-]

It's getting a bit better now but yesterday it was unbearable especially around 23 my time :biggrin: I guess on mainland Europe its a bit faster but here in the UK it takes ages, anyway I'll go make a cup of tea now before I see that my post has been posted :cheers:

[Big Dawg KS]

I though it was just me, but yea it's definately been annoyingly slow lately.

[Ofcra_Leon]

Forum is hosted in czech republic and they maybe have some trafic congestion atm
They also use a provider(Casablance INT) who has only 29 peers wich is still pretty slow and no one of their peers are Tier 1 Telco (wich can interact with low international interconnect speed)

Best solution would be to use cdn caching to prevent trafic congestion

And that's currently my job :)

[colossus]

This only occured to me in the last 48 hours. Normally the forums load quite quickly, a matter of seconds, but at the current moment it may take as much as 30-60 seconds for a page to load.

[Big Dawg KS]

Bit slower for me but no great shakes, I always open 5 or 6 threads at once in separate tabs and read one whilst another's loading, reading one thread at a time is archaic ;)

This is also my strategy, however the recent slowness is still getting in the way when all my tabs are all loading pages at once. :rolleyes:

[MJK-Ranger]

Yeah.. very slow :(

[GossamerSolid]

It's a sign that BIS Community is growing... more people on here every day.

Maybe it's time for database and web server upgrade for BIStudio forums?

[Placebo]

Obviously we'll monitor the situation and take steps where necessary if things don't improve, seems a bit better this morning :)

[PogMoThoin]

Obviously we'll monitor the situation and take steps where necessary if things don't improve, seems a bit better this morning :)

Not that much, its gone from a painful 60-120 seconds per page yesterday evening (I'm in Ireland) to a usable 20 seconds this morning, but its still way too slow. Its gonna turn newcomers away

[-Martin-]

Obviously we'll monitor the situation and take steps where necessary if things don't improve, seems a bit better this morning

Or we are just getting used to it :biggrin:

[Big Dawg KS]

Obviously we'll monitor the situation and take steps where necessary if things don't improve, seems a bit better this morning :)

Indeed, it seems back to normal for me this morning.

[Placebo]

We rebooted the server and are checking into some other potential causes :)

[GossamerSolid]

We rebooted the server and are checking into some other potential causes :)

stupid servers and them requiring humans to restart them. We need some robopuppy servers that take care of themselves.

[Big Dawg KS]

We rebooted the server and are checking into some other potential causes :)

Seems slower now than it was this morning, and it's not just because of my workplace's network (slower than that usually makes it even). :(

[Erratic]

Yeah it slowed down, around the time the 1.07 patch came out, but know it seems to be almost back to it's usual speed.

[PogMoThoin]

Can someone please feed the hamsters

[Erratic]

Can someone please feed the hamsters

It seems the hamsters had more than they could chew with the 1.07 patch though

[Cole]

Seems like it got slightly slower for me, takes around 5 to 6 seconds to load a page.
It's nothing serious.. ;)

[MadMike[Brig2010]]

Same issue for me... :(

[@ST]

Strange thing, though, is that on my PC at work in the same city with OS XP speed is absolutely ok (even with f...n surf protection); only at home with Win 7 its laggy as hell...

[])rStrangelove]

10 sec for a page, normal would be 2-3 secs. :P

Plz dont let it die before the OA patch is out! ;)

[[APS]Gnat]

*posts before the page has even finished loading*
Its got slower again :(
*waits 30secs for refresh after posting*

[Royal-Killer]

It is kind slow and sometimes i have to hit the "Load page again" button on chrome.

[-Martin-]

Strange thing, though, is that on my PC at work in the same city with OS XP speed is absolutely ok (even with f...n surf protection); only at home with Win 7 its laggy as hell...

Its not Windows 7 that's causing this, its not like XP is the best operating system, at college we have a 10mb/s transfer speed, every page loads in an instant, you tube videos load in like 5 seconds completely but loading the BIS forums still takes around 30 seconds :sad: Its getting a bit boring now to read threads because I have to wait so long for it to load :sad: BIS should do something about this, they have enough money to be prepared for this even before the launch of the patch and OA...

EDIT: I would understand if other companies don't really care about their forums but for BIS the forums are the main thing that sells their games and brings the community together which is almost as fun as playing the game it self. But then again lag has always been there with BIS :biggrin: I remember playing OFP when it came out @10 FPS, good old days :smile:

[M@ster]

Forum = slow

[Foxhound]

?Forum == slow : goto "play OA"


Cant script for shit anymore, but since he just set the variable i am giving you all a way out.

[Big Dawg KS]

?Forum == slow : goto "play OA"

Sorry, but SQS format is deprecated. Can you rewrite it in SQF? :rolleyes:

Also, OA is undefined on this client. :p


:(

[Placebo]

We've apparently identified the problem and it should be improved in a few hours :)

[Big Dawg KS]

We've apparently identified the problem and it should be improved in a few hours :)

You forgot a semicolon somewhere didn't you? Admit it... :rolleyes:

[Placebo]

Lol..

[Joshii]

Sorry, but SQS format is deprecated. Can you rewrite it in SQF? :rolleyes:

Also, OA is undefined on this client. :p


:(

if(forum == slow) then {Process.Start("arma2OA.exe", "C:\OA") if(!pathfound) then {Check Steam for Release Date}; };

Or what other people do
while{forum==slow} do {cry};

[Big Dawg KS]

while{forum==slow} do {cry};

More like:
while{forum == slow}do{cry; spawn {while{forum == slow}do{crysomemore}};

[Ginger McAle]

I know how pain in the ass it is to have a high traffic website running so iam curious. What is/was the problem in your case? Webserver? Database? Network?

[[APS]Gnat]

You forgot a semicolon somewhere didn't you? Admit it... :rolleyes:

LOL
If (_BigDawgKS == _joker) then {terminate;};
// Included extra semicolons just in case

[Big Dawg KS]

Why am I a local variable?

Is my existence limited only to this forum? :(

[Mosh]

These forums have become painfully slow the last week or so. It's almost to the point it's not even worth coming here... 30 seconds or so for anything is not an exaggeration.

[-Martin-]

I know how pain in the ass it is to have a high traffic website running so iam curious. What is/was the problem in your case? Webserver? Database? Network?

That's true, what was/is the problem? Anyway, good that I started this thread :laugh:

[Foxhound]

Thanks everyone for correcting my script code. I am not sure what you did but its working!!!!!!!!
Well, I guess for others as the pages are loading much faster so everyone else must be starting OA now.

[Old Bear]

Of course the Forums are slower than ever ... but that's not a bad new ;) ... many people trying to get infos from the Forums at the same time ... Operation Arrowhead is ready for the show and all the fans old and young are around !
Enjoy !

[F2k Sel]

It's still like a snail stuck in treacle for me.

[bravo 6]

YES. The forums are slower, no doubt about it.

Took me some time to post this fecking message!

Hope this slow down passes quickly or I for one will hibernate for some time.
I would like to read all pages and understand the real reason about the annoying slow down but since i don't have all night i rather not...

[-Martin-]

I would like to read all pages and understand the real reason about the annoying slow down but since i don't have all night i rather not...

We don't know the reason for the slowdown yet :biggrin: So far BIS has tried to calm us down by saying that they found the problem and will fix it in a "few" hours, so far 7 hours passed and nothing.

I'm going to play OA now, I hope when I finish playing the campaign this will be posted :smile:

[dengibtsschon]

I'm not having any speed issues here. Probably because I'm currently just around 50km away from the czech border.

[Mosh]

It seems to be much better now, not as fast as before, but much better. I can live with 10 seconds or so (was less than 3 for anything before and then 30 plus lately). I visit this site as much as all my other favorites combined so this slowdown made me sad. :(

[])rStrangelove]

Wow, its ok now. Thank god :)

[Foxhound]

I guess you moved over to a GB line. Thanks for fixing the issues, I can now load again my 50 pages at the same time:bounce3:

[-Martin-]

Its back to normal now :yay: :yay: thanks BIS!

[Placebo]

:)
..

[Big Dawg KS]

It actually seems faster now here at work (and interestingly enough, no longer having issues with the web filter). Almost as fast as it is at home. :cool:

[bravo 6]

Grumpy here say the forums seem to be faster now. :)

Thank you.

[F2k Sel]

Nice and fast now thanks.

[Placebo]

grumpy here say the forums seem to be faster now. :)

thank you.

lol :)

[Mosh]

Yes, all back to normal, thanks!

[Lonestar]

Back to normal.

Thanks a lot :)

[Kernriver]

After a few days of agony, it's back to normal. :)

Thanks.

[[APS]Gnat]

Thanks ;)