[R-wiki] Slow connection
Gregor Gorjanc
gregor.gorjanc at bfro.uni-lj.si
Tue Apr 25 11:42:11 CEST 2006
Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> Gregor Gorjanc wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I am experiencing extremely slow connection to R wiki. This is permanent
>> observation. Is it only me? If I would try to search for something in
>> wiki and wait for so long I would probably abandon the idea. I can
>> browse other (random) pages normaly.
>>
>
> Hummm... I just check again the search feature on the Wiki. It takes me
> less than 2 sec to get the whole result (but the page is constructed
> pieces by pieces, and the firsts links appear almost immediatelly). This
> is slower than Google, but still fine to me. Of course, this is an
> access from my Intranet, thus testing the Wiki engine mainly, not the
> Internet traffic.
>
> Could you give me a little bit more info (trace route to the Wiki server
> from your computer, how long does it take to display a Wiki page, to
> display the search result, etc...).
>From work:
- open R-wiki 5 sec
- search for debian 6 sec
- open getting-started:installation:debian page 6 sec
- click on first edit 12 sec
- preview 5 sec
- save 5 sec
So this is not that much for each action, but it takes quite some time
if you want to do all of them. Am I just to spoiled or ... At home, this
is of course slower - I can not tell by how many, but I will report in
the evening on this.
Ping:
$ ping wiki.r-project.org
PING econum.umh.ac.be (193.190.194.5) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from econum.umh.ac.be (193.190.194.5): icmp_seq=1 ttl=110
time=54.6 ms
64 bytes from econum.umh.ac.be (193.190.194.5): icmp_seq=2 ttl=110
time=52.6 ms
64 bytes from econum.umh.ac.be (193.190.194.5): icmp_seq=4 ttl=110
time=70.2 ms
64 bytes from econum.umh.ac.be (193.190.194.5): icmp_seq=5 ttl=110
time=45.8 ms
64 bytes from econum.umh.ac.be (193.190.194.5): icmp_seq=6 ttl=110
time=44.1 ms
Traceroute - I do not know, why it is not showing names:
$ traceroute wiki.r-project.org
traceroute to econum.umh.ac.be (193.190.194.5), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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> I introduced a project to my University to buy and install a faster
> server and to put it as close as possible to the backbone. I received a
> positive answer, unofficially, but you know... administration always
> take longer!
Excellent, thank you for your time on this!
--
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
Gregor Gorjanc
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