S...L...O...W Internet

[D_Hailsham]

Is anyone else finding that the Internet is running slower than a dead snail?
It's not just DIYnot, but Google and other sites. Could this be caused by the break in the undersea cables cables at the far end of the Med causing everything to be rerouted?

 

[masona]

Slow yesterday but okay today, must be the last minute shopping

 

[D_Hailsham]

Still having problems, but it seems to be limited to the DIYnot site. Even when I am looking at a page, Task Manager shows that Firefox is using up 97% of the CPU time and IE7 is showing similar usage - so it's not a browser problem. The text in this email appears several seconds after I type.

Just a thought! Are the "snow flakes" at the top of the screen hogging the CPU?

Stopped typing and monitored Firefox in Task Manager for a few minutes. CPU varied between 50-85% memory usage is 75mB and climbing, page faults is 353,000 and climbing, VM is 80mB and climbing. Why is this if I am not doing anything?

 

[JohnD]

I have also been seeing very high CPU usage on the DIYnot screen where I look at the list of New Topics. I don't think it happens on the single-thread screens.

Funnily enough I also get it on ebay whenever I scroll up or down, but not while just watching.

 

[D_Hailsham]

I don't think it happens on the single-thread screens.

It's happening on this thread! But if I scroll the page up, so the snowflakes disappear, the CPU usage drops considerably.

Strangely the snowflakes stopped dropping and the CPU usage dropped to zero. They then started again and the CPU usage shot back up to 97%.

I have Firefox and Task Manager opened and just realised that, if I click on the TM screen, the flakes stop dropping and Firefox CPU usage drops to zero. Clicking on Firefox starts the flakes again and CPU climbs to 95%.

Looks as if the snowflakes are the problem.

 

[RF Lighting]

Yep same here.

My CPU useage is sat around 70%, but if I shut the DIYnot page down it drops back to just a couple of percents.

 

[D_Hailsham]

Definitely the snowflakes.

There is a Javascript running called snowstorm.js. I temporarily disabled Javascript, the snow flakes stopped and the site returned to normal speed.

 

[RF Lighting]

How do you do that then? I'm not very good at that sort of stuff

 

[D_Hailsham]

How do you do that then? I'm not very good at that sort of stuff

I wouldn't recommend you trying this. I only did it as a brief experiment to prove it was the "snowstorm" Javascript causing the problem. The trouble with disabling Javascript completely is that it is used for other things on DIYnot, so the site would not work properly without it.

Also, Javascript is frequently used by other sites and you can't specify when it can be used or when it can't.

Hopefully Admin will do something about it - when Christmas is over

 

[JohnD]

I am currently using "Internet Explorer - No Add-Ons" as an experiment, and CPU usage is way down, and PC is working faster.

 

[D_Hailsham]

The snowflakes have gone and it's back up to speed again. Firefox currently using about 5% cpu.

Hurrah!

Let's hope it does not happen again next year.

 

[JohnD]

mine's OK too

that must have fixed it.

 

[noseall]

you will still find the snowflakes lurking in your 'my home' pages.

 

[JohnD]

but CPU usage <20% even there

went up to 80% when I had 3 of them open
50% with two
20% with one
<5% with none.