all pages loading very slow....

Posted by verticalwave on June 18, 2012 at 9:15pm

Hi,

I'm posting this question as I'm very frustrated with Drupal and I have no idea what to do next.
I've tried everything and I can't seem to find the reason behind this problem.
We are a team of developers that worked on a sports website called http://epikoo.com (Dupal 6 core) and since yesterday the site started to behave very slow.
All the inside pages are loading extremely show. The main page loads normal but if you hit any other link it takes forever to load.
I cleared the cache, rebuild permissions, flushed the image cache, restarted the server...
This site was up and running for more than a year and there was not code changes in the last 3 months. How is it possible to behave like this?
If I login with the Admin user then I can load the pages without any problem...

I'm hoping maybe someone else had this problem before and could at list point me on the right direction.

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Posted by VM on June 18, 2012 at 10:44pm

if it's not occuring with logged in users it sounds like a cache issue in some way. Any changes to the environment?

the environment has not

Posted by verticalwave on June 19, 2012 at 3:52pm

the environment has not changed since the site was launched.
Now it seems that all the internal pages get "page not found" error and I see in the logs lots of errors that say "500.shtml" when someone is trying to access any page.

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Posted by VM on June 19, 2012 at 4:56pm

You are seeing 'Page Not Found (500.shtml)' in the logs because the server is encountering an internal error and looking to display that file (500.shtml) to tell the user more about the error, etc. You need to either create the file 500.shtml and add to the correct path, or change the path where the server will look for the file by editing the web server (apache?) configuration.

http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/1209/lots-of-500-shtml-page-no... may provide a clearer explanation.

Hi VM, Thanks for the

Posted by verticalwave on June 20, 2012 at 3:25pm

Hi VM,

Thanks for the reply.
In the mean time we moved all the code and the MySQL db to a new server and seems that everything is back to normal.
I'm still not sure what the problem was...
There are other Drupal websites running the old server and all of them still work without any problem.
I'm not sure way we need the 500.shtml as it was working fine until 2 days ago. There are no changes to the code, db or the environment...