Hello

Perlmonks is very slow. I have tested this site from many locations, and although network connection is bad from some locations, it seems that it's the site itself that is slow.

[rebel@hydrus rebel]$ /usr/sbin/traceroute www.perlmonks.org   
traceroute: Warning: www.perlmonks.org has multiple addresses; using 2
+09.197.123.153
traceroute to perlmonks.org (209.197.123.153), 30 hops max, 38 byte pa
+ckets
 1  192.168.123.254 (192.168.123.254)  1.181 ms  1.109 ms  1.962 ms
 2  10.33.96.1 (10.33.96.1)  9.433 ms  9.131 ms  18.006 ms
 3  pos0-1-nycmnyb-rtr2.nyc.rr.com (24.29.97.113)  9.216 ms  8.780 ms 
+ 9.920 ms
 4  pos3-0-nycmnyd-rtr1.nyc.rr.com (24.29.97.21)  10.215 ms  10.408 ms
+  10.445 ms
 5  pos5-3-nycmnya-rtr2.nyc.rr.com (24.29.97.38)  9.291 ms  24.512 ms 
+ 10.025 ms
 6  pop2-new-P3-1.atdn.net (66.185.137.29)  10.729 ms  9.779 ms  10.44
+8 ms
 7  bb2-new-P0-1.atdn.net (66.185.137.18)  10.051 ms  10.336 ms  10.91
+9 ms
 8  bb1-nye-P4-0.atdn.net (66.185.152.196)  209.445 ms  214.379 ms  21
+3.826 ms
 9  bb2old-nye-P1-0.atdn.net (66.185.152.87)  12.547 ms  10.887 ms  11
+.259 ms
10  bb2-vie-P8-0.atdn.net (66.185.152.201)  163.221 ms  211.253 ms  22
+7.308 ms
11  bb2-chi-P6-0.atdn.net (66.185.152.214)  35.390 ms  34.344 ms  34.5
+21 ms
12  aol-gw.cgcil.ip.att.net (192.205.32.237)  36.900 ms  36.473 ms  38
+.336 ms
13  tbr1-p013902.cgcil.ip.att.net (12.122.11.205)  37.986 ms  36.807 m
+s  40.990 ms
14  * * *
15  gbr5-p30.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.11.10)  57.526 ms  56.267 ms  96
+.317 ms
16  gbr4-p100.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.5.110)  55.172 ms  60.944 ms  5
+5.466 ms
17  gbr1-p20.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.122.2.18)  58.739 ms  58.249 ms  58.
+922 ms
18  gar1-p360.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.123.137.21)  57.630 ms  58.248 ms  
+58.251 ms
19  12.125.176.98 (12.125.176.98)  67.124 ms  64.718 ms *
20  perlmonks.pair.com (209.197.123.153)  65.605 ms  66.857 ms  82.911
+ ms

bash-2.05$ traceroute www.perlmonks.org
traceroute: Warning: www.perlmonks.org has multiple addresses; using 6
+6.39.54.27
traceroute to perlmonks.org (66.39.54.27), 30 hops max, 40 byte packet
+s
 1  user.hsrp.w18.nyc.access.net (166.84.1.30)  0.934 ms  0.714 ms  0.
+446 ms
 2  S8-0-0-T3.l3core.nyc.access.net (166.84.64.14)  1.879 ms  1.554 ms
+  1.327 ms
 3  panix-r.netaxs.net (207.8.210.94)  3.510 ms  2.344 ms  2.667 ms
 4  169.130.235.13 (169.130.235.13)  2.336 ms  3.420 ms  2.740 ms
 5  12.125.51.209 (12.125.51.209)  3.441 ms  3.429 ms  3.009 ms
 6  gbr2-p70.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.123.1.134)  3.282 ms  2.824 ms  2.78
+6 ms
 7  gbr4-p70.n54ny.ip.att.net (12.122.1.177)  2.120 ms  2.973 ms  3.56
+0 ms
 8  gbr1-p20.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.122.2.18)  6.507 ms  6.562 ms  6.271
+ ms
 9  gar1-p360.phlpa.ip.att.net (12.123.137.21)  7.136 ms  4.929 ms  5.
+363 ms
10  * * *
11  ads.perlmonks.org (66.39.54.27)  11.623 ms  11.512 ms  11.275 ms
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Are the servers over-worked? Is there some problem with database contention? Io contention?

I would like to discuss what we need to improve this situation, perhaps rally some hardware or money.

Perhaps the site admins can help us on this topic.

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