OT Testing

[julius]

I was able to post this new thread perfectly fine Denny, no lagging while I typed.

 

[julius]

And I can reply without any lag either

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I wonder if it has to do with the length of the thread.

 

[BrianFromWA]

same. Is it the game thread, then?

 

[santeesioux]

Yo guise, I don't have permission to look at the NFL topic on the OT board, wha happen?

 

[barfo]

I was able to post to this thread while shagging!

barfo

 

[julius]

Yeah baby, Yeah!

 

[MARIS61]

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[Denny Crane]

I'm looking at it.

The servers are not showing any stress. Laggy typing is an indication that your computer or whatever is acting slow for some reason. I think it may well be something that needs to be tuned with the site. With a busy thread, a lot of alerts are generated. That might be triggering the browsers to deal with a lot of alert processing.

That's my theory at this point.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I didn't change preferences, is it something that if I used 20 posts per page instead of 100 it'd be better?

 

[PDXFonz]

I didn't change preferences, is it something that if I used 20 posts per page instead of 100 it'd be better?

My guess is that you might be in to something. I noticed the website seems to do a kind of live update where it fetches posts made since you have reloaded the thread. Perhaps a lot of memory could be allocated to having so many new posts on one page before reloading. Fwiw I did not experience any lag on Safari (IPad) with 50 posts per page selected.

 

[BrianFromWA]

My guess is that you might be in to something. I noticed the website seems to do a kind of live update where it fetches posts made since you have reloaded the thread. Perhaps a lot of memory could be allocated to having so many new posts on one page before reloading. Fwiw I did not experience any lag on Safari (IPad) with 50 posts per page selected.

fair enough. I'll change it for my game threads.

 

[Denny Crane]

I think it could be the twitter renderings in the thread.

Those aren't done by xenforo, but by twitter itself. It's a technology that's been around a long time called IFrames. I see a lot of timers getting fired by the twitter javascript. If they're taking some time to run, the editor and scrolling and rendering and everything else would feel slower.

 

[Denny Crane]

BTW, once I see it happen here, I am 100% certain I can diagnose and fix the issue.

 

[Denny Crane]

It doesn't seem to be related to super long threads. I opened one that's 30+ pages and I didn't notice any slowness.

 

[BrianFromWA]

It doesn't seem to be related to super long threads. I opened one that's 30+ pages and I didn't notice any slowness.

could it be related to threads that have a lot of active viewers/guests?

 

[riverman]

I'm looking at it.

The servers are not showing any stress. Laggy typing is an indication that your computer or whatever is acting slow for some reason. I think it may well be something that needs to be tuned with the site. With a busy thread, a lot of alerts are generated. That might be triggering the browsers to deal with a lot of alert processing.

That's my theory at this point.

I have no problems typing here or on any other thread but it was noticeable on the game thread. As I mentioned on the game thread, it seemed to stutter when panes appeared saying new post were available to view. It also sensed it happened twice when trying to send a post and again, the banner saying new posts available for viewing was there. It's not our computers. The old system you used did not have these issues and I used the same computer.

 

[Denny Crane]

could it be related to threads that have a lot of active viewers/guests?

I see no indication that the servers are having any kind of slowness. I see 99% idle type measurements on them all. They're doing their job plenty fast.

If you are experiencing a laggy feel when typing, then it's something running on your computer that's hogging the CPU. It might be the xenforo javascript in your browser. It might be a bunch of animated gifs on the page (animation takes CPU).

If you have a sense of what it is, let me know. I am not seeing it here.

 

[Denny Crane]

I have no problems typing here or on any other thread but it was noticeable on the game thread. As I mentioned on the game thread, it seemed to stutter when panes appeared saying new post were available to view. It also sensed it happened twice when trying to send a post and again, the banner saying new posts available for viewing was there. It's not our computers. The old system you used did not have these issues and I used the same computer.

When it's inserting HTML in the middle of the page, it could cause a reflow (browser has to redraw a lot).

There's two components to the site. There's a lot that goes on server-side, and there's code that runs client side. The editor itself is code that runs in your browser on your computer.

What I'm saying is I don't see any indication there's issues with the server-side. I am also not seeing anything on my laptop.

I'll watch next game thread and see if I can't experience it.

 

[riverman]

Also, for the books, it's not a big issue on my end. It's a minor difference in response.

 

[Denny Crane]

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/general-laggyness-in-very-active-threads.90088/

If you have any clarifications I can pass on, let me know.

 

[Denny Crane]

BTW, the first thing they're going to suggest is that I turn off any add ons we have. Those include twitter, the option for number of posts per page, etc.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

what

the

fuck

 

[3RA1N1AC]

if you are turning off the choice for posts per page, can you just set it at 50? im sure most would be happyish with that

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Slight off topic issue that may not be your problem but i noticed it was hard to post a pic and then type stuff from my phone. Everytime i try to scroll down it wouldnt let me go below the pic. Had to delete pic, edit text, reinsert pic. Probably just my old has s3 phone but didnt have that trouble on old site.

 

[julius]

I adjusted the posts per page back down to default, and it was much less laggy (because, I think, BfW suggested something like that).

It still lags behind a little bit, but I can actually see the words as I'm typing them instead of typing about 5-7 words without seeing them on my screen.

 

[Denny Crane]

if you are turning off the choice for posts per page, can you just set it at 50? im sure most would be happyish with that

I'm not planning on turning anything off. Instead I want to figure out the cause and fix it

 

[Denny Crane]

xenforo's respons is that input lag at the client (typing not smooth) "is a result of the client's resources being consumed by something intensive on the page such as an embedded flash object, runaway javascript, or excessive CSS animation."

The only things I can come up with are the twitter embeds, animated gifs, youtube videos, etc. And I don't think we have nearly enough to be the cause (YET).

 

[kjironman1]

Denny you are doing a great job on the site. I really like the added window when i make a thread that tells me if there are any other "Like" threads. I never liked duplicating things already posted so i tended to not post things.