I just took me 10 minutes (7:36 pm CST till 7:46 pm CST) to refresh a image to full quality...

the image is 175.1 kb in size.

and yes I have already cleared this and reset that....why is this site slow?

I had the same problems here last night...I think somebody forgot to grease the wheels....coming here to view images, read the forum threads, etc is getting to be a real pain in the.....

Sure is..

Quote - I had the same problems here last night...I think somebody forgot to grease the wheels....coming here to view images, read the forum threads, etc is getting to be a real pain in the.....

You got that right. When it's acting very slow. I found a way to solve the problem tho. I just close the browser and go to a different site that works much fastrer, doesn't matter which one bucause every other Poser site I visit is much faster that Rosity anyway.

Image size: 504.7

refresh  time to full quality: first try 30 minutes, stopped after 3/4 of the image was refreshed, second try 15, stopped less than half way. 

I stopped the second try myself, but not the first one. 

I have cleared and reset, and did everything the staff said to do.  Nothing has changed. Can someone on the staff please tell me why?  And dont lay it on me.  I have none of these problem with any other site. RDNA,  and ARTZONE loads up faster than this place does, and Ive got dial-up.  Once again why?

Why is this the only site that`s so damn slow?

Hmmm... I did some research, and RDNA averages about 200-250 users at a time, and ArtZone about 125 or so, whereas the average number of users at Renderosity is more like 2000 or so at any given time. I wonder if having ten or more times the user load has anything to do with the comparison?

Captain Jack

That has no bearing on this problem,and never has.  There were many times in the past that Ive been here when there have been over 3,000 +  members online, not a problem.  But as they change more and things here the slower and slower it gets, and FYI its not just me.

Okay, I guess I was confused because you were comparing the performance here to that of RDNA and ArtZone. Since it appears that what you're doing is comparing the speed now to times past, I was wondering if you have any data for comparison between now and back then? Maybe we could backtrack the problem to something.

I'm getting an average 67 ms latency on round trips pinging their server. DNS resolution occurs in an average of 25 ms, which isn't too bad. They do use an open DNS server here, which can result in slowdowns based on over usage. They do have a pretty large user base here, so that might be a possibility. Packets are taking 13 hops from my server down to theirs, which seems a little high to me, too; there may be routing issues.

I have to confess that I haven't noticed a slowdown, myself, so I can't contribute any direct data. I use cable modem from home, and full DSL at work, and I haven't noticed a change in the last four years or so. I know there are sites that run faster, and certainly some that run slower, but I've been fortunate not to experience any problems.

If you don't mind my asking, what ISP are you using? Perhaps something has changed in the packet routing between your ISP and the server that Renderosity is using.

Captain Jack

Not too long ago dna and artzone loaded up much slower than osity, but it seems here lately thatosity  has gotten much slower.  Its never been fast for me, but now its almost impossible.  Example, it took me three tries before this page loaded up. ???

yes, slow here again tonight...not as bad as two nights ago....but still frustrating.  Agree with mejed...it was painful during the "conversion" process....then things weren't too bad.....now back to slooooow mode.

I think the conversion to php has not helped as I find that all php sites are noticeably slower for us dial up folks...but not THIS slow.

Maybe they're running too many "site speed" polls....hey... what ever was the result of that? 

The number of users online now is 1225. Everything is coming up quick for me at this time.

It's only when the users online get to like 2100 or so, that the site starts crawling.

The strange thing is that the roundtrip times and DNS query times are always pretty normal. From where I live RTTs are around 150 ms, which is OK. Not blindingly fast, but not slow either. Which means the problem is not in the network, and it's not in the client machine.

The site performance greatly varies, though. Sometimes it's reasonably fast, sometimes it's agonizingly slow. I haven't been able to pinpoint a pattern. It's not related to the number of users online - sometimes the site is fast with over 2000 users, sometimes it's slow with less than 1200 users.

The only thing I can think of is the full text indexing engine. Maybe it causes the site to slow down when it's updating the catalogs.

Quote - The only thing I can think of is the full text indexing engine. Maybe it causes the site to slow down when it's updating the catalogs.

That definitely seems worth looking into. I develop with SQL Server, and I'm not terribly familiar with MySql. I'll do some digging into it, and see if that's a common problem elsewhere. I don't know how scalable MySql is, either... there is an awful lot of data here to index in the first place, I'm sure.

I wonder if the full text engine runs in a separate process, or if it can be made to do so? If it's causing a problem, perhaps its process priority could be adjusted to mitigate the effect.

My ISP is mailaka.net, I checked with their tech people, and they havent changed anything, and Im still using IE6...beats me, it`s just this site...