realtime pricing bar is slowing the forum down

sniggle · 07-12-05, 09:21 PM

hey guys,

i've been visiting this site/forum for a while now and i love it! however, the recently-added realtime pricing bar above the forum content (nvnews.pricegrabber.com) has sometimes been quite slow with the access times. it causes that bar to sometimes take about 5-10 seconds to load, for every single forum page. i was wondering if perhaps you could reconfigure it or even write your own caching function that caches it every 3-4 minutes so that it greatly reduces or even elimates that lag, yet still shows the ads.

just thought i'd mention that and wondered if it was affecting anyone else. i would be more than glad to lend a hand with the php to do this.

thanks!

Vishruth · 07-12-05, 09:26 PM

See here.

sniggle · 07-12-05, 09:31 PM

crap, sorry for the repost. i already have a firetune-tweaked firefox at fast/fast setting and it still crawls. perhaps pricegrabber's servers are blocking the simultaneous connections as a DoS prevention or something. regardless, a small caching script would make it practically instantaneous. offer still stands

07-12-05, 09:21 PM	#1
sniggle Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: New York, NY Posts: 209	realtime pricing bar is slowing the forum down hey guys, i've been visiting this site/forum for a while now and i love it! however, the recently-added realtime pricing bar above the forum content (nvnews.pricegrabber.com) has sometimes been quite slow with the access times. it causes that bar to sometimes take about 5-10 seconds to load, for every single forum page. i was wondering if perhaps you could reconfigure it or even write your own caching function that caches it every 3-4 minutes so that it greatly reduces or even elimates that lag, yet still shows the ads. just thought i'd mention that and wondered if it was affecting anyone else. i would be more than glad to lend a hand with the php to do this. thanks! __________________ Gaming Box Asus P6T Deluxe V2 \| i7 920 @ 4.25ghz 1.38v \| Thermalright TRUE \| 3x 2GB Corsair XMS2 PC12800 @ 811mhz (2:8) 9-9-9-24 \| eVGA GTX 580 SC \| 2x Intel SSD G2 80GB RAID 0 \| Audigy X-Fi XtremeMusic \| Corsair 750HX \| Antec P-183 \| Dell 3007WFP \| NEC 20WMGX2 Home Server DFI P35 T2R \| Q6600 @ 3.0ghz 1.3v \| OCZ Reaper 640 \| GeForce 8600GTS \| 2x 150GB WD VelociRaptor raid 1 (os), Synology DiskStation DS410 with 4x 2TB Hitachi \| Corsair HX750

07-12-05, 09:26 PM	#2
Vishruth Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: India Posts: 121	Re: realtime pricing bar is slowing the forum down See here. __________________ http://freeshell.in/~vish/ \|Dell Inspiron 8600 Laptop - Pentium-M 1.8 GHz CPU 2M L2 cache (Dothan), 400 MHz FSBUS, Intel 855PM chipset, 512MB RAM (DDR333/256x2), 60GB Hitachi PATA HDD (5400 RPM), Nvidia GeForceFX Go 5200 GPU (64MB DDR/AGP 4x), 15.4" WUXGA Display\| \|Desktop Machine - AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ CPU, ASUS A8N SLI Premium MB, 2x1GB RAM (Corsair XMS Twinx2048 3200C2PT), 200GB Seagate PATA HDD (7200 RPM), BFG 7800GTX OC GPU, ViewSonic VX1932wm 19" LCD, Antec P160 case\|

07-12-05, 09:31 PM	#3
sniggle Registered User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: New York, NY Posts: 209	Re: realtime pricing bar is slowing the forum down crap, sorry for the repost. i already have a firetune-tweaked firefox at fast/fast setting and it still crawls. perhaps pricegrabber's servers are blocking the simultaneous connections as a DoS prevention or something. regardless, a small caching script would make it practically instantaneous. offer still stands __________________ Gaming Box Asus P6T Deluxe V2 \| i7 920 @ 4.25ghz 1.38v \| Thermalright TRUE \| 3x 2GB Corsair XMS2 PC12800 @ 811mhz (2:8) 9-9-9-24 \| eVGA GTX 580 SC \| 2x Intel SSD G2 80GB RAID 0 \| Audigy X-Fi XtremeMusic \| Corsair 750HX \| Antec P-183 \| Dell 3007WFP \| NEC 20WMGX2 Home Server DFI P35 T2R \| Q6600 @ 3.0ghz 1.3v \| OCZ Reaper 640 \| GeForce 8600GTS \| 2x 150GB WD VelociRaptor raid 1 (os), Synology DiskStation DS410 with 4x 2TB Hitachi \| Corsair HX750