Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 performance: slow first page load

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Edward Bishop wrote:

> 
> 
> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:19:24 +0100, Edward Bishop wrote:
> > >>Accessing the site via the IP makes no apparent difference to the
> > >>pause, but
> > >>in trying it I noticed something I never had before - once the site
> > >>has been
> > >>accessed once. accesses remain fast for about two minutes. If I
> > >>leave it for
> > >>this long the pause appears again.
> >
> > Do you have HostNameLookups turned ON in your httpd.conf?
> >
> > --
> > Carrie Bartkowiak, ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx on 07/13/2001
> >
> 
> No, it's off.
> 
> Maybe I'm getting paranoid but when I SSLed in to check this I got a long
> pause - maybe 7 seconds - before "Login as" appeared. Then I logged off and
> tried it again and it was instant. I bet if I leave it 2 mins it will do it
> again.
> 
> Carrie, Joe, Gerald: your suggestions are very much appreciated.

Try pinging it, ping is such low level that it's handled by the kernel,
thus it won't startup any services....
If it also takes a long time to give back the first ping, it's almost
certainly a dns issue somewhere, if it gives you a ping back right away,
and ssh still takes a long time to connect then it's some issue with
starting services....maybe..

Are *all* your NS records working?

gsh