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

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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
> 

Also, SSL sessions takes time to begin, as keys needs to be exchanged and
so on. 5-7 seconds is pretty normal for me to SSL sites (not only my
cobalt) as the first connection time.

- shimi.