Bob, I am now experiencing the very long delays in posting that others have experienced.
And, actually, I think this response may be on-topic to the post I am responding to.
It's taking 1 minute or more to make a post after the Submit button is hit. (Using no preview.)
I think it's most likely a database problem, not bandwidth-related. I am not having long delays in viewing posts.
Further, I'd speculate that it's most likely a locking or deadlock problem.
Theory: some administrative function keeps the database (or part of the database) locked during some GUI function. That is, it remains locked until the admin completes some GUI action (editing something, confirming something, etc.)
Perhaps the previous admins were aware of this, and simply avoided leaving the offending screen open for long periods of time, rather than fixing the code.
If this were in some non-admin code, it would be more obvious and would have to have been fixed rather quickly. But if it is in some admin function, it might have made sense just to work around it with an admin procedure. (i.e. "Don't leave this screen open for more than a few seconds.")
Perhaps the current admin isn't aware of this.
I note that the problem occured at the same time that you are "deleting a rather large number of messages from this thread".
Could you possibly be sitting on a screen deciding if you really want to delete this post or that, or get called away for a phone call, etc. when deleting a post? |
