Throughout the day, even during weekends, Rosetta's Website is VERY slow to respond, e.g. 30sec or more, to the point that browsers will time-out. This makes it difficult to read the forums interactively.

It has been an ongoing problem during the 2 months since I've joined.

I think the problem became less apparent when you switched to 8hr WUs, i.e. fewer concurrent connections.

It's NOT a problem with overall TCP/IP network traffic, because e.g. ping works fine. IMO it's a problem with the Apache webserver running out of server pool resources.

% ping boinc.bakerlab.org
PING boinc.bakerlab.org (140.142.20.103): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 140.142.20.103: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=16.994 ms
64 bytes from 140.142.20.103: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=16.942 ms
64 bytes from 140.142.20.103: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=16.892 ms
64 bytes from 140.142.20.103: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=16.954 ms
64 bytes from 140.142.20.103: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=16.920 ms
64 bytes from 140.142.20.103: icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=16.945 ms
64 bytes from 140.142.20.103: icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=16.928 ms
64 bytes from 140.142.20.103: icmp_seq=7 ttl=55 time=16.926 ms
^C
--- boinc.bakerlab.org ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 16.892/16.938/16.994/0.028 ms

% telnet boinc.bakerlab.org 80
Trying 140.142.20.103...
telnet: connect to address 140.142.20.103: Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host


i.e. ...sitting there waiting for > 45sec - 60sec without response -> timeout.

I've tried this test from many different locations in EU and US, to make sure it's not a local problem.

Since you're using "Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)" Server at boinc.bakerlab.org, you probably need to tweak the MPM, e.g.

Apache performance tuning

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Yes, we're aware of the problem. I'm going to be installing a second webserver frontend today in the hopes of reducing the bottleneck...

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