tickets #101848
Poor performance of lists.opensuse.org - web ui, running very slowly.
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Description
FAO The Heroes Team
Hi,
The web interface to lists.opensuse.org is frequently running very
slowly, with load times of, in some instances, several tens of seconds.
A traceroute to "lists.opensuse.org" shows no appreciable network delay.
Monitoring the page load (with Firefox Developer Tools -> Network) it's
invariably one or more, generally more, of specific "GET" requests.
As an example, this is one which typically will result in a delay:
await
fetch("https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/posted-to"
The forum thread
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/561827-lists-opensuse-org-a-snail-in-treacle?p=3078227#post3078227
shows the traceroute and some of the offending (slow) requests.
This is not a recent issue, it has been present for a while, the
slowness does vary throughout a twenty-four period, so I would hazard a
guess it's related to server load.
I raised this issue on the openSUSE forums, mainly to see if it was a
local issue or more widespread, and it appears the latter.
Forum administrator (Malcolm Lewis) suggested I raised the issue with
the "Heroes Team".
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Best regards,
Paul Tannington.
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Updated by #2
Updated by pjessen 10 months ago
tannington wrote:
The forum thread
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/561827-lists-opensuse-org-a-snail-in-treacle?p=3078227#post3078227
shows the traceroute and some of the offending (slow) requests.
FWIW, let me add my take on it:
- personally, I am also disappointed by mailman3. It is slow, unwieldy and not really finished.
- I don't see any option for "going back", mlmmj and mhonarc are also very "mature" products, with little or no support.
- we are 100% dependent on upstream development and bug fixing, not too unlike previously. We are doing what we can.
Wrt performance, I am fairly certain the issue is not solved by adding more hardware resources. We currently have 6 CPUs, 12Gb RAM. I fear the issues are to be found in the design of mailman3 (just a hunch).
#4
Updated by tannington 9 months ago
Updated by Not significantly I'm afraid, I've tried a few times over the last 15 hours, it's quite variable.
This was the "best" 20211114T1711 https://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/7b4f4493 better 1.2 - 4 seconds
and the "worst" 20211115T1120 https://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/29720507 worse 6-12 seconds
I'm now no longer using https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse for access to the archived posts.
Please don't take offence, but I find the archive listing here https://marc.info/?l=opensuse-factory&r=1&w=3 is considerably faster, and I much prefer the "basic" layout, finding it much easier to read new posts added to an existing thread without having to scroll through all replies.
#5
Updated by pjessen 9 months ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Workable
tannington wrote:
Not significantly I'm afraid, I've tried a few times over the last 15 hours, it's quite variable.
This was the "best" 20211114T1711 https://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/7b4f4493 better 1.2 - 4 seconds
and the "worst" 20211115T1120 https://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/29720507 worse 6-12 secondsI'm now no longer using https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse for access to the archived posts.
Please don't take offence, but I find the archive listing here https://marc.info/?l=opensuse-factory&r=1&w=3 is considerably faster, and I much prefer the "basic" layout, finding it much easier to read new posts added to an existing thread without having to scroll through all replies.
None taken, I appreciate your feedback.
#6
Updated by pjessen 7 months ago
- Related to tickets #104899: moderation of lists.opensuse.org very slow / timing out added
#7
Updated by pjessen about 2 months ago
- Related to tickets #113111: lists.opensuse.org - webserver backand timeouts - nginx 504 gateway timeout added