Re: BP site painfully slow….
It’s a weird problem indeed.. Looking at your site in firebug (using the “net” tab) I see one certain element popping out which seems to be the cause of the problem. This are the details:
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Date Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:59:12 GMT
Server Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) mod_jk/1.2.25 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8
X-Powered-By W3 Total Cache/0.9.1.3
X-Pingback http://liveview.no/xmlrpc.php
Set-Cookie bp-message=deleted; expires=Thu, 01-Oct-2009 10:59:17 GMT; path=/ bp-message-type=deleted; expires=Thu, 01-Oct-2009 10:59:17 GMT; path=/
Last-Modified Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:59:19 GMT
Vary Accept-Encoding,Cookie
Expires Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:59:19 GMT
Pragma public
Cache-Control public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate
Content-Encoding gzip
Content-Length 4953
Keep-Alive timeout=15, max=98
Connection Keep-Alive
Content-Type text/html; charset=UTF-8
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I’ve seen this on my site as well (the very long response time on initial page load) and I have almost exactly the same setup as yours. I “solved” the problem by adding more Ram to my server, and could not find the problem (if there actually is one).
Good luck
