Tonight I decided to tackle the problem of slooooooooooooooooow loading times for the very long threads on this forum.
Most notably, the Trump thread (over 1400 pages) and Flying Stupidity Wagering Thread (over 750 pages) were quite slow to load initially.
I say "initially" because they greatly speed up once you load a page on them, but the initial click on the thread is very slow.
I determined the slowness was occurring right after first establishing the database connection to read the thread (something you're doing by clicking on it), but it was performing fine as long as you still maintained that same connection (meaning you were semi-actively scrolling between pages).
I have adjusted some server variables which I think might help. My initial tests showed them both loading significantly faster, but there also seems to be some natural variance in loading times, so I'm not sure how much it helped.
Please post your findings in this thread. If you're noticing it loading faster for you now, please let me know. If it's just as slow, please also let me know If it's a mixed bag, again, please let me know.
Basically I want to know if loading time is acceptable now, or if it's still causing a tilting wait of several seconds to load the threads.
Again, this only applies to threads with hundreds of pages (over 10,000 posts, typically). Shorter and medium threads were already loading quickly.
Also please post any new database error messages you are seeing, if such a thing is happening (I don't think it will happen, but if it does, please take a screen shot and post here).
Thanks.