Hangs on tag.contextweb.com

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    bwilson4web 03 and 10 Prius

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    Hi,

    SYMPTOMS: I'm seeing long delays 5-100s of minutes on 'tag.contextweb.com'. The problem has become especially severe the past 2-3 days to the point of making PriusChat nearly inaccessible.

    CONFIGURATION:

    • Mac OS 10.5.8
    • ISP: AT&T via xDSL, 128 kbs
    • browsers: Safari, Firefox, Camino
    WORKAROUND: When 'tag.contextweb.com' shows for more than a few seconds, hit "refresh" and many times, the web page will load and render.

    I don't have a diagnosis but have captured the problem with 'tcpdump'. I have noticed a variable delay in opening a port up to 4 seconds. I'll do more detailed timing analysis later tonight.

    Bob Wilson
    bwilson4web, Aug 11, 2009
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    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    I'm having the same problem with Linux and Firefox. The OS and browser shouldn't make a difference, as tag.contextweb.com is an advertising server supplying ads. I don't mind the advertisements, since they help pay the bills, but it makes me angry when the advertisers are too cheap to use responsive servers. Ideally a site should be designed so that slow ad servers only cause slow ad displays, not overall slow loading.

    Tom
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    JimboK One owner, low mileage

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    Same here this morning with FF. I haven't noticed extremely slow page loads before today. I have had occasional complete timeouts before today recently, resolved after waiting a few minutes and refreshing.
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    I've noticed this happening off and on for some time. Hitting stop and refresh will often clear the problem. It is annoying though.
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    bwilson4web 03 and 10 Prius

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    I sent a PM to Danny but have no idea if it got through or if there much that can be done about it. I agree, I don't mind the ads until the block the content.

    It was irksome this morning because I wanted to discuss an new technical approach but delays like this ... So I'm drafting the details somewhere else and will be in a final someday in the future. You can't work and think if the interface is too slow.

    Bob Wilson
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    cwerdna New Member

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    tag.contextweb.com is really slow again and causing stalls in loading pages here on PC. If I ping it, I don't see packet loss. If I manually telnet to port 80 of tag.contextweb.com and send a GET / manually, it takes quite a few seconds before giving me an error.
    cwerdna, Jan 20, 2011
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    bisco cookie crumbler

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    welcome back bob.
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