On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:28:05PM -0400, Cliff Hirsch wrote: > I have an interesting problem with my site. I?m using Firebug and yslow > (awesome tool and book) to evaluate my page load times. Things are fairly > reasonable, given that there has been little optimization so far. But there > is one strange bug. My first access can take upwards of 30 seconds for > anything to happen ? just a blank white browser while I wait...and wait... > After that first hit, things are fine, regardless of whether I use different > browsers, different PCs, flush caches, etc. > > Its almost like the server is sleeping (remember this is a new site and is > locked down so its possible that hours may go by between hits). Or maybe > there are caches, like APC, that need to be filled up. Or Apache is on a > cigarette break. Or DNS is doing lookup using the yellow pages. I don?t even > know where to begin to look or what log may hold the key.
May be your code needs to initiate a DB connection? You could try using persistent connections. DNS lookups could be it too. > > Any thoughts on how to debug this? > > Cliff > > P.S. My APC cache shows 2 day uptime, 125,000 hits, 500 misses, 99.6% hit > rate. So this doesn?t look like the problem. > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
