Strange site performance
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I don't know if it's actually an intermittent problem with the site (or possibly HyperFilter), or something about my 3-line MLPPP setup not liking me, but I've noticed a strange behaviour from the site recently. At times, I'll click on something to load a page, and it's like I get stuck for a while at times waiting for the page to load. Every time Google Chrome comes up and gets stuck on "Waiting for www.gaytorrent.ru…" or "Waiting for forum.gaytorrent.ru..." before it finally loads the page. When it does get to loading the page, it almost seems as though the page takes significantly longer to load completely than it otherwise does. When this happens, it doesn't last for very long (maybe 3 - 5 minutes), and then the site starts loading lightning fast again. Also, when this does happen, it's like the page sometimes loads in segments... Like it will load about 1/3 of the page, then pause again for a short period, then load another chunk of the page, then pause again for a short period, then finally finish loading everything.
The interesting part is that when I load other sites like Netflix, YouTube, eBay, etc. they all seem to load at normal speed, and I typically do not notice any kind of decrease in my torrent transfer speeds. Also, when I run a speed test, I keep my usual ping of ~14ms and I seem to still be able to get the full 10.25mbit down / 1.75mbit up speeds, indicating that all three of my 4032/800 pre-Y2K legacy ADSL2+ lines are functioning and that the Mikrotik router is splitting the packets into 3 properly, and they're getting reassembled at the gateway into a single packet properly the way they're supposed to through the magic of MLPPP.
So... I'm asking here... Has anyone else noticed this strange behaviour, or do I need to start to rip apart my MLPPP settings to figure out what is going on and why I am experiencing this?
Also, if it's of any value, I can post whatever logs, config files, etc that may be helpful in figuring out where the problem is because it's reeeeeeally annoying when this happens, especially when I'm in the middle of a mod function and the site suddenly decides that it doesn't want to cooperate.
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I haven't experienced the site loading "in chunks" but intermittently everything comes to a screeching halt (Last week or so but I've been on the site more often so it might just be I've only noticed because of that) and pages will take 30-60 sec (or more) to load. I may be missing the loading issue you see because when it happens I normally switch tabs to some other page I'm passively reading then check back in a minute or two.
I doubt there are any logs I could provide that would be of help, having debugger tools open might catch something (or at least I could export the timeline showing the delay and see if it's hanging on a specific asset) however I don't keep it open unless I'm actively developing and I have "Disable Cache" checked and that could throw things off or mask the problem completely depending on what it is. If I see it happen again I'll try to pop the dev tools, uncheck disable cache, and see if I notice anything. Really though exact timestamps of when the issues happened are probably best for the admins as when I get such reports time is important so I can cross-check it with various logs (nginx, mysql, php/app logs, etc).
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Yes… Time stamps are kinda helpful... I think I'll start poking through the RouterOS in the Mikrotik router the next time it happens and see if I can pull any useful information from there, as well as prod at the modems to see if there's anything out of place there (like maybe a high CRC rate on one of the modems, thus throwing the other 2 off maybe?)
I think the biggest part of my problem is going to be that since I have MLPPP in the equation, it could be increasingly more difficult to figure out the exact cause, due to the nature of the packets being sent from my laptop in the trailer, to the wireless router in the trailer, then out the trailer and underground to the house where it hits the "Grand Central Switch", which then passes it to the server on one network card, and out the other to the router. At the router level (it's a Mikrotik RB-750) the packets get split into 3 segments, each one of which is sent off on a different DSL modem (all TP-Link TD-8816 BTW), out a different DSL line, to be reassembled at my ISP's gateway level. That little voodoo magic though the magic of MLPPP may be a factor in the problem that I am experiencing. I just find it strange that it seems to be isolated to this site (that I've noticed so far).
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I'm not a techie, but there was an issue with one of our server drives and a bad kernel. Joker fixed it so it should be all good.
Unless of course, this is a different issue.
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I hope that this was the problem.
