[Seaside] slow picture loading

Bob Arning arning315 at comcast.net
Mon Nov 26 16:09:26 UTC 2012


Also, is the problem sensitive to the number of images loaded on the 
page? If you simplify the page (one image at a time) does the problem go 
away at some point?

On 11/26/12 10:28 AM, James Foster wrote:
> Hi Duro,
>
> Before we try to adjust the configurations we should verify that the 
> symptoms fit. When you look at your timeline in the client browser 
> does it appear that there are clumps or groups of things being 
> received? Is there a consistent number of items that come in each 
> group? Is the wait till the next group consistent? Could you post a 
> screen shot of the timeline and confirm that it is representative?
>
> James
>
> On Nov 26, 2012, at 1:27 AM, Tudor Girba wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul, hi James,
>>
>> Thanks for the answers.
>>
>> I also thought it has to do with the Apache config, but I had no idea 
>> what to look for. Your suggestion certainly look interesting to look 
>> into, but I have close to no clue of how to do it. Do you happen to 
>> have a bit more hands-on pointers for how to:
>> - increase the resources count
>> - add expire headers for the images
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Doru
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebruic at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:pdebruic at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I suspect James has the answer but you might also consider doing the
>>     following:
>>
>>     -Add expires headers for the images in Apache and people will
>>     only have
>>     to download them once.
>>
>>     -Apache 2.2.8 was released Jan 19, 2008 so I'd definitely spend time
>>     upgrading to the latest stable version just to get the security
>>     vulnerability fixes.
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 11/25/2012 08:11 PM, James Foster wrote:
>>     > Hi Doru,
>>     >
>>     > How many resources do you have loading from the same site? Once
>>     I had a problem in which Apache was configured (by default) to
>>     only provide ten (10) items per second to the same client. I
>>     believe this was an attempt to avoid a denial-of-service attack.
>>     When I changed Apache to allow 30 items per second then my site
>>     loaded much faster.
>>     >
>>     > James
>>     >
>>     > On Nov 25, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>     >
>>     >> Thanks. But, somehow, I think size is not really the issue.
>>     >>
>>     >> Somehow randomly, one or two of the pictures take
>>     significantly more (the delta is measured in seconds) to load
>>     than the others.
>>     >>
>>     >> And yes, I am using the timeline debugging functionality from
>>     the browser.
>>     >>
>>     >> It's strange.
>>     >>
>>     >> Doru
>>     >>
>>     >> On 24 Nov 2012, at 10:26, Gerhard Obermann <obi068 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:obi068 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     >>
>>     >>> Hi Doru,
>>     >>>
>>     >>> I would reduce the image size to the displayed size and
>>     reduce the bit depth of the png to 8.
>>     >>> I tried it with home-icons-400-200-37.png.
>>     >>> Before: 31.092 Bytes
>>     >>> After: 7.678 Bytes
>>     >>>
>>     >>> Cheers
>>     >>> Gerhard
>>     >>>
>>     >>>
>>     >>> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Tudor Girba
>>     <tudor at tudorgirba.com <mailto:tudor at tudorgirba.com>> wrote:
>>     >>> Hi,
>>     >>>
>>     >>> I am working on a pier page, and I have a couple of images in
>>     it that seem to be slow to load, although they are served through
>>     apache.
>>     >>>
>>     >>> It is true that the images are slightly large (~230K), but
>>     still I think they appear too slow.
>>     >>>
>>     >>> The example is here:
>>     >>> http://www.humane-assessment.com/
>>     >>>
>>     >>> Anyone has any idea of why this would happen?
>>     >>>
>>     >>> Cheers,
>>     >>> Doru
>>     >>>
>>     >>>
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