[xwiki-users] pages take 30 seconds to load (solved)

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Jan Kurella wrote:
> Short Summary:
> 
> Problem: Browser took over 30 seconds to load almost every page. 
> Sometimes only few pages took that time - not possible to find any pattern.
> Precisely: loading of some css-files took 30 seconds to load
> 
> Solution: Browser Firefox with Plugin Fasterfox. All Settings above 
> "Moderat" that means, "optimized" and "Turbo" caused that problem.
> 
> Going Deeper in the settings it means, that the Option
> Pipelining>Activate Pipelining caused the problem. Can't see why 
> pipelining slowing down the J2EE-Server to timeout - but who knows?
> 
> Deactivating pipelining, solved the problem finally. Hope that helps you 
> finding the problem. Pipelining should not lead to 30s load of 14kB 
> css-files.
> 
> Jan

Thanks, at least now we know that XWiki (or tomcat?) doesn't work well 
with pipelining.

And this touches another problem, CSS files should have a cache policy 
so that they aren't transfered for each request.

Sergiu.