Hi,
I'm experiencing some intermittent and rather strange slowdowns using
slide. I was hoping someone could shed some light on this.
It seems to only happen when a particular host is connecting to the
server for the first time in a while (i.e. if you do it from the same
host twice in a couple of hours, the second time never (or only rarely?)
seems to cause a problem). However, connecting from a new host only
SOMETIMES triggers this.
The symptoms are that, from the client side, nothing whatsoever happens
for 1-2 minutes. This includes a connection which fails (e.g. an
unauthenticated connection - it'll have this problem. Eventually things
will work, the user types in username/password, and the response is
quick the second time. It can also happen when the connection IS
authenticated, though)
I've mostly noticed this with clients doing a propfind through the
webdav servlet, but I've also seen it with a static html page a couple
of times.
I looked around quite a bit but didn't find anything conclusive. For a
while I was running a packet sniffer on the server, and I managed to
catch this happening once. It looked like the response (to a PROPFIND)
was going through fine (and reasonably quickly), but the final chunk
(the 5-byte 0-length terminating chunk) was sent almost 2 minutes later.
That was a little strange.
I'm using tomcat 4.0-b1, which may well be relevent - it could as easily
be a tomcat problem as a slide problem, I suppose.
Thanks,
Michael
