Measuring the page generation of the forum

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Friday, 13 April 2012 at 03:24:19 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it is the NG itself. Every news reader I've 
> used has shown some form of "hiccup" If you try making a post 
> under a heavy load you'll get a nice page telling you the load 
> and what it needed to be.

Long page loads are caused by a combination of high server load +
RAM cache misses + SQLite queries that require a lot of seeks.
Network operations, including fetching new posts from the NG and
posting to the NG, are asynchronous, and never block web requests.