On Friday, 13 April 2012 at 03:24:19 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
I'm pretty sure it is the NG itself. Every news reader I've used has shown some form of "hiccup" If you try making a post under a heavy load you'll get a nice page telling you the load and what it needed to be.
Long page loads are caused by a combination of high server load + RAM cache misses + SQLite queries that require a lot of seeks. Network operations, including fetching new posts from the NG and posting to the NG, are asynchronous, and never block web requests.