CB sluggish for anyone else tonight? (in General)

Or is it just me? :/

It's painfully slow for me as well.

Same feeling at my end..

At the moment it's flipping from fine to unresponsive. :(

Same for me GL

Was for me until 5 min ago.

It's fine now.

Last time this came up I added a bunch of monitoring to the server. Nothing looks unusual. Next time, can you try traceroute / tracert to the server to see if it's on the network provider's end?

tracert www.carnageblender.com

Tracing route to carnageblender.com [67.58.96.34] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms sitecomwl611.sitecomwl611 [192.168.0.1]
2 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
3 18 ms 17 ms 17 ms 213.197.27.154
4 17 ms 17 ms 17 ms 213.197.27.117
5 18 ms 18 ms 17 ms ip-87-82-50-237/easynet.co.uk [87.82.50.237]
6 95 ms 94 ms 95 ms se0-7-0-0.gr10.sdnyc.uk.easynet.net [87.86.77.111]
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 134 ms 133 ms 133 ms hagg-03.dlwf.twtelecom.net [66.192.240.198]
9 134 ms 134 ms 134 ms 207.210.210.124
10 134 ms 134 ms 134 ms carnageblender.com [67.58.96.34]

same was not to long ago, but is smooth as silk now

Tracing route to carnageblender.com [67.58.96.34]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 47 ms 47 ms 59 ms 67.58.96.34

Trace complete.

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Not sure this helps at all.

Actually, if you look at the logging, the "available entropy" drops down to a very low number for a good while, is that a sign of something wrong?

Yes, it is very slow currently.

Incredibly slow.

It's even slow for someone not even really playing any more, please fix it! ;p

It took me 3 minutes to load this thread.

Where's the run command gone in Vista? :/

I don't think entropy is the problem -- it doesn't seem to correlate with when people are reporting problems here. All the CB randomness is really pseudorandom and doesn't consume entropy, and things like these forums don't even touch that.

I've added smokeping to the monitoring set; if it's a network problem hopefully it will show up there.

If that doesn't work, does anyone have experience with any of the various external site monitoring solutions out there?

to GL, you can get the run box up in vista by pressing the windows key + 'r'

the search box also works for run commands.

Ah Thanks! :D

well I dont know what you fellows did but this place is rocking fast tonite :) thanks!!

CB is slow for me at this moment:

tracert is giving me pretty much the same as it did earlier.

Yes, it's slow for me also. My tracert looks fairly normal though.

Slow for me right now.

Technical people only:

if you enable the Net tab on firebug and mouse over the speed section of a request, it gives you a breakdown of where the time goes.

that should help us figure out where the slowness is coming from.