likely not an issue since not replacing, but try putting WP Avatars below SP Default… what are you using for WP avatar settings?

only asking because quite a while back we had 2 users with odd server config where avatar settings caused extreme slowness on server… so just wanted to see…

I’m using standard Gravatars.  PG and up. Default avatar mystery man.

I moved the SP Avatars above the WP Avatars, same result.

okay, was just shot in dark, but yeah, if wp is gravtars, no need to have it in the priorities since the sp gravatar one will handle it…

the cache thing is still good to use, will speed up your site…

will do some more digging…

Brian, can you try one more thing…

in your wp-config.php file, try adding this:

ini_set(‘pcre.backtrack_limit’, 1000000000000);

I’ll try it… that is a rather large limit…

but in some cases, wp needs it…  and the default is extremely low and some server configs make it even lower…

dont know that it will help, but may…

Done.  Seems to have no effect. :/

You know, some of these posts load just fine.  Is it possible that a specific user has some bogus data that somehow causes this if they’ve made a post?

yes… but more puzzling is that fact that sometimes that example page you gave loads fine for me… but most time, nothing loads on the page at all…  you seem to see different results…

For the example page:

http://www.kyusho.com/kyushoforums/english/fun/

I generally get the first 3 posts of the page, or the first 5 posts of the page, then it hangs.  I never get a completely empty page.

I get either complete page or nothing…

That was my experience also last time I looked at the site.

Are either of you experiencing this on any specific on SimplePress related pages?  I’m not seeing any pages that aren’t Simple:Press exhibit any loading issues.

I am seeing what appear to be fairly random failures ion both forum and non-forum pages.

If I take the example link you gave (‘fun’) then the first initial load showed me three posts and it stopped. The second load of the same page loaded the whole page down to the footer. The third load got nowhere after the heading and just sat there telling me it was ‘transferring data’. I gave up waiting…

I can load other – non-forum – pages. And then suddenly it will just sit there and load nothing. A few page load attempts later it will load the same page it just choked on. This is the same experience I was having when this thread was started.

And it still looks to me like the communication with your server gets interrupted in some way…

This is strange.  I have only had forum related pages stall.  Every other page loads every time.  I have this experience both from my office, and from my home.  I use Chrome in both locations… I can try it with Firefox…