Possible temporary workaround for our recurring response time problem. Also, John has checked in!

[lizma2]

I have trouble with the thingamajig working with the whatchamacallit!” LOL! I’m so there!

Occasionally at work I’ll say something like “I need that goober that does blah, blah....” The looks on the millennial’s faces are just priceless. People my age know what I’m taking about!

[Responsibility2nd]

“...or get back up to San Joose to install it.”

San Joose. Is that anywhere near TJ?

Or does San Joose bite your sister?

[donna]

The good news, though, is John has finally checked in.

It never occurred to me that John had a life other than FR. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

No argument. I could be “wronger” than a 13 year old male prostitute discovered in a hotel room with your preacher. Why I think it is threading. Setting to 20 fixes it. FR is legacy code. FR used to be magnificently fast. HT had lots of OS issues. Older compilers have no idea of the multicore nature of todays CPUs even run time ones. The repeatability at a point of time of the failure and that it is not consistent over time. Have seen it over and over again. IMHO it is a problem with FR running on a multicore system. Best fix IMHO is run FR in a vm emulating a single core system and let the OS and VM handle the switching.

[onyx]

Thanks very much.

BTTT

[minnesota_bound]

You can hire people to fix this for $5 : )
https://www.fiverr.com

Database
https://www.fiverr.com/categories/programming-tech/database-programming-services?source=side-menu

[AbolishCSEU]

Here is an interesting blog:

http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=789

[nevergore]

Jim,

As much as this pains me to say.....

Family first, Free Republic second.....

Best of everything!

NeverGore

[Nifster]

Glad John is alive

Prayers up for he and his family

Little by slow on the other stuff

[UCANSEE2]

Glad to hear that John is OK. Thanks JIM, for keeping us updated on everything.

[Golden Eagle]

Prayers and Thanks to the whole Robinson family.

[Ben Hecks]

Thanks JimRob! I’m still using the Defraginator app that all members used to get at signup and I have had no problems. Best to you and John!!

[TomServo]

Done - thanks Boss!

[Grampa Dave]

Jim, I have been using this 20/20 work around, and it has worked very well about 90+ % of the time.

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Meanwhile, until John finally gets it fixed, here’s a possible temporary workaround:

At the top of the articles index page click: “Account” and then “My Preferences.”

Set 20 messages per page
Set 20 results per page

Set them both to 20. You can change them back after John gets the problem fixed.

Direct link to preference settings:

http://freerepublic.com/perl/settings

[ExGeeEye]

It’s south of Tel Aviv :D

[Bratch]

"I'm sorry. I don't speak code."

[CJ Wolf]

+1

[goodtomato]

Thanks Jim, A little FR is better... than less than... that amount. BLESS YOU BROTHER!

[chief lee runamok]

It’s the russians.

[lonevoice]

Then there’s the extra step that some posters (including me) find necessary after changing to the 20/20. Go to the main page and set “Brevity” to “headers” as opposed to “text”. I still had a lot of trouble until I did that. After changing to “headers” there’s less trouble, at least for me.