I think the stats programs (bandwidth, etc.) may have been largely responsible for the white screen - I haven't seen any since I turned them off. The slowness hasn't been a constant thing, which suggests that we are just running out of RAM (some combination of too many users doing stuff at once, a large database, and perhaps some inefficient queries in the posting.php code).
I don't know that we'll ever get to the source of the problem before we move/migrate, but I'll keep tweaking things to limit the annoyance until then. In the meantime:
If you get a white screen
(whether blank, or the "out of memory" error), post here. I don't need you to quote it, and I don't need posts from ten different users about having the problem in the same time frame - one will suffice.If you experience slowness when posting/editing
, first, be patient. It's likely that the post will go through once the problem times out. If it stays stuck for longer than 20 seconds, hit stop on your browser window, and either hit back and refresh or open up a new window/tab to check to see whether your post went through or not.If you are having repeated problems
with slow page loads and posts not going through, close your browser and take a short break from the site. Bombarding the site with requests out of frustrating will only make things worse.Thanks,
mith