New site, drupal 5.3. The host uses Windows 2003. The initial load of the home page just displays "waiting for..." for minutes. If I cancel and re-enter the url, then it responds quickly. All subsequent loads and pages are quick. If I exit IE or Opera or Firefox, clear the cache and re-enter, then I can sometimes get it to repeat the delay, other times not. So I was thinking it might be some sort of cache issue. I turned the cache feature off, in admin, but to no affect.

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vm commented

Without any benchmarking stats as well as other OS information, ie: version of PHP and the like. I don't know what you expect from this posting.

I'd suggest finding a host using linux and recent builds of Apache, MySQL and PHP.

When you can provide this information feel free to reactivate this issue.

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vm commented
Component: accessibility » other
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)
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Richard DeShong commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

PHP5, MySQL4, Window 2003. Try it yourself at museumshow.org. It is not a millisecond delay. It just sits there. If I cancel and re-enter then it's great. So there are no benchmarks - it only happens the 1st time. All subsequent times are fast. Could it be something in bootstap.inc that is not relating well to Windows vs Unix? Just checking if anyone else has had this experience. I'm new to Drupal and I am hoping that there is a config change that I might make to deal with this.

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Richard DeShong commented

Sorry, not Windows vs Unix, but rather, IIS vs Apache. It's being run on IIS.

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vm commented

It loads in well under a second on my cable connection with IE7

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nevets commented

With Firefox 1.5 inital load time was 1.21 s, on reload 1.02 s. Loaded clean in both cases.

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Richard DeShong commented

Thanks for trying. I was hoping there might be some config issue. I've tried it from 3 different connections - home (cable modem, IE7) and at work - UCBerkeley (network), and at another city network connection. Noticed the same thing at all three locations - if it happens ( and it's not every time ) it's only on the 1st load, stalls with "waiting for...", the IE progress bar is about 1/2 way. If I cancel and refresh - then bang, it's right there just like I expect - your times are typical in my experience too. I've seen it using Firefox and Opera. Because of all the variables at my end, I think it's something at the server end. That's why I was thinking that it might be an IIS issue. Didn't notice anything strange when I had a straight html site. It *is* a shared host site, so I'll query the ISP and see if their logs can tell me anything.

Again, thanks for trying. If you have a chance to try again some time, I'd appreciate it if you could drop me a note.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Project: » Drupal core
Version: » 7.x-dev
Component: other » usability
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sutharsan commented

Moving issues from User experience project to Drupal core usability component.

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ainigma32 commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Judging from the track Richard DeShong either gave up or found the solution on his own. Setting this to fixed.

Feel free to reopen if you think that is wrong.

- Arie

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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kiborg commented
Version: 7.x-dev » 5.12
Component: usability » base system
Category: support » bug

I have the same issue. My host is linux.