Increase the load time of the main poker site

[alf493023]

When I load the main poker site, it hangs on "Connecting...." for approximately 5-10 seconds. This timeframe seems extremely excessive, especially considering I am testing locally and the PokerMavens software resides on hardware that is ridiculously overkill (64 core AMD Epyc 512GB RAM). From a technical point of view, including initiating websockets and the like, I would imagine that this should take 20-50ms vs 5000 - 10000ms.

This is what I am referring to:

Is there something that can be done to speed up the connecting time?

Thanks!

[Kent Briggs]

I just timed my own demo site at https://www.pm-demo.com and it only took about 1 second. How fast does my site load for you?

[alf493023]

I just timed my own demo site at https://www.pm-demo.com and it only took about 1 second. How fast does my site load for you?

Interesting, yours did load in 1 second, whereas mine takes 5x-10x. I have nothing special in my configuration. The only configuration option I enabled was to disable registrations. Nothing else.

Is there something specific you've done on Windows maybe? Or something else in the software?

[Kent Briggs]

Is there something specific you've done on Windows maybe? Or something else in the software?

Mine is just on a bare bores Atlantic.net VPS and proxied through Cloudflare. If I long press the Help menu to bring up the debug window, I get these timestamps on the load process:

21:53:41.560 MSG Version 7.30 : Win64 : G7-xxxxx
21:53:41.561 MSG Connecting to wss://www.pm-demo.com:8443 ...
21:53:42.286 MSG Connected
21:53:42.578 MSG Using Web Audio

What does yours show? How many logins, tables, and tournaments do you have online?

[alf493023]

Mine says this:

20:21:58.337 MSG Version 7.30 : Win64 : G7-25377
20:21:58.337 MSG Connecting to ws://localhost:8080 ...
20:21:58.645 MSG Connected
20:22:09.160 MSG Using Web Audio

The above test took about 10 seconds to connect. It did that dotted flashing line thing about 10 or so times while connecting. Further, if I click on the 1 cash game I setup as a test (it is empty), it takes about the same time to pop up the table, about 10 seconds. It is so long that the whole site appears down/offline.

There are 0 tournaments, 0 running cash games, 1 test account logged in, nothing running at all really. It is a new install.

[Kent Briggs]

If you want me to test it from my end, email your site's link to me. Reference this thread to remind me.

[alf493023]

If you want me to test it from my end, email your site's link to me. Reference this thread to remind me.

Thanks, will do, as I want to keep the URL private.

[Kent Briggs]

We solved this via email but I want to document the cause here in case it comes up again.

When using the Blacklist feature, make sure the IP field is valid (or blank). Or at least contains a period (IPv4) or a colon (IPv6). Otherwise the matching routine with treat the field as a domain name and attempt to perform a DNS lookup. Which triggers an outbound internet connection and may take 2 or 3 seconds each, and thus dramatically slow down the client load time.