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tin68
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@davidlari
Thanks for your feedback – at least I get the impression that I am not alone… Additionally the answers to my questions from my provider had about the same “sound” as we could read written by Otto – not a very nice situation to be in between and to find and solve a problem…
Noone likes to hear bad news though. Otto could wrap everything he says up in flowery language, but he’d still have to say the same thing. WP 2.7 makes use of parts of server-side technology that may fail in some environments, which is likely causing the sort of timeouts and excessive load times that you are seeing.
Based off this thread and the bug report one of the possible issues has been discovered and is being worked on, but until it can be figured all the way out, the issue will remain. It’s not really fair to blame any of the component parts, because it is only when they are all glued together that bits don’t work. Likewise a lot of people were in the testing cycle and didn’t notice this behaviour – it’s unfortunate but some folk will always have host environments that hit upon the odd unexpected issue.
Personally I think it might be nice to have an advanced config option that turns off all the external connectivity bits. That’s help to kill some of these problems, or at least determine where they are.
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In my opinion a very helpful tool would be a logging tool which records (all sorts of) timeouts. I think with such a tool it would be easy to find functions which don’t run on a specific server.
I don’t know if nightly builds have more logging facilities – I would be ready to help finding such issues – without having root access to the server.
After a few trials I found out that in my case it was the Backlinks plugin (1.0). The popularity contest 1.3b3 had to be disabled as well. Hope this helps.
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Thanks for that – but I didn’t install these plugins.
I have the same problem. I have other WordPress installations (older ones) on the same server with no issues. The pages load fast, but the admin area can hang for minutes.
@tin68
I would like to help debug this… but I am not a tech wizard or anything so I may need some guidance…
I was on version 2.something-old, and upgraded to 2.7 @home on my local machine. So I have access to php, mysql and apache on a windows XP box if someone needs me to play with server settings…
It is slow as hell, though I noticed the slowness only happens for me in Firefox 3. Even after a clean ffox reinstall, it’s still deadly slow in that browser.
In IE7, it takes approx up to 5 seconds to load any page. This is reasonable on my (old) machine. In fact, IE7 has been consistently faster. On the other hand FFox, my preferred browser, is stupendously slow and often exceeds the 30s timeout limit, showing a php error as a result instead of loading the requested page. This behaviour is erratic / inconsistent.
So… Could this also be a problem exacerbated by ffox’s recent v3 upgrade?
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@whipper
Thanks for your input – but I don’t see a difference of the loading time of pages when using Firefox 3 or IE.
I can confirm that there is a difference between IE and FF. I have used both across multiple machines, both browsers and different themes.
The problem is consistent. FF hangs when loading the admin pages, IE does not. The header loads, as the page title changes, but the load seems to hang somewhere thereafter.
A stop followed by a reload usually brings the page back up quickly. But obviously, this is not the optimum mode of operation.
Is there possibly something in the base stylesheet for the admin pages that does something different between the two browsers that would cause FF to hang?
It seems some ppl see a difference between browsers and some don’t. At my end I can DEFINITELY see a difference between IE7 and FF3. And I have to say that while the Admin pages are the biggest problem, browsing the actual site pages aren’t exactly that fast either. Or maybe it’s cos I’m logged in as admin while doing it.
Anyway. In FFox, when you request a page it just sits there for ages… the browser loading bar doesn’t even move until very late in the game then I see the little green squares filling across. Which looks to me as if *BEFORE* the request, something else is happening. Is it it looking through firefox’s cache? If so, for what?
I downgrade my WordPress 2.7 to 2.6.5 the difference is noticiable.
2.7 is not working for me because of the problem mentioned here.
WordPress should test more the new releases…
kind regards,
Roy
I had the same problems as described in ticket #8590 upon upgrade. Requests were being served at a rate of 2 / second EVEN with WP-Super-cache enabled.
A downgrade to 2.6.5 yields 2.6 K requests / second again.
Hi,
The upgraded version 2.7 is quite slow. As and when I try to comment on a particular topic it takes lots of time. Please someone help me out.
CSK
New Cars
Actually I found two versions of 2.7
One it’s called “wordpress-2.7.zip” and it has 1.76 MB and 603 files, and the other one is called “wordpress-latest.zip, 1,83MB and 644 files.
The first one is faster, but not enough. The second one, is way slower.
It’s so difficult for people who really know what changed from 2.6.5 to “debug” a little bit?
I made the modifications as found here: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8590 (http.php file)
And now it’s waaaaaaaaaaaaay waaaaaaaaay faster 😀
