site slow ?

[rootcho]

hi,
The site is very slow in 90% of the cases for me for some reason, can you confirm ?
When I click between the links on the top right sometimes it is in the range of 15 sec, sometime in the range of 30 sec.

wget -v perlmonks.org
--12:22:39--  http://perlmonks.org/   => `index.html.2' ...
12:23:21 (97.07 KB/s) - `index.html.2' saved [65659]

The interesting thing is that when I debug it with firebug the total load time of the html and css :

http://perlmonks.org/css/common.css
http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=204962

it says something in the range of 100-200ms. It seems that it stales for ~20sec and then fetches everything for ~150ms.
The network seems to be ok (97K/s).

ping perlmonks.org -s 1400
PING perlmonks.org (209.197.123.153) 1400(1428) bytes of data.
1408 bytes from perlmonks.pair.com (209.197.123.153): icmp_seq=1 ttl=5
+1 time=107 ms
1408 bytes from perlmonks.pair.com (209.197.123.153): icmp_seq=2 ttl=5
+1 time=106 ms
1408 bytes from perlmonks.pair.com (209.197.123.153): icmp_seq=3 ttl=5
+1 time=105 ms
1408 bytes from perlmonks.pair.com (209.197.123.153): icmp_seq=4 ttl=5
+1 time=108 ms
1408 bytes from perlmonks.pair.com (209.197.123.153): icmp_seq=5 ttl=5
+1 time=106 ms
1408 bytes from perlmonks.pair.com (209.197.123.153): icmp_seq=6 ttl=5
+1 time=107 ms

--- perlmonks.org ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 4999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 105.900/107.082/108.509/0.930 ms

I haven't done any tweaks on Firefox.
Do you experience slowdown or it is only me ?
10x

PS> hmm the Preview button was quick

[ysth]

As far as I know, we are still experiencing the problems described in 'A' web server takes another "time out".

[tye]

Probably, though different. I've had pair.com adjust the max number of httpd's Apache will try to create and that has meant that the web servers aren't having to be rebooted much.

But each web server varies between being unusually fast to respond to being extremely slow to respond.

We have lots of data but I haven't found enough time digging through it to narrow down the cause. Though the performance of the two servers is rarely correlated so the problem probably isn't database-related.