Initial request to server extremely slow after longer periods of inactivity

[Jon Radel]

On 4/8/15 11:41 PM, opendaddy at hushmail.com wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm running this Rails app on a DigitalOcean FreeBSD droplet. Lately I've been experiencing extremely slow initial requests after longer periods of inactivity. Subsequent requests are fine.
>
> At first I thought it was my PostgreSQL database or the Rails app itself, but now I doubt that's the case as I just realized SSH connections made simultaneously with those initial requests are equally slow.
>
>
Something has gone semi-wrong with DNS and it works quickly when in a 
local cache and takes a long time to fetch when expired from the cache?  
Assuming you're using names for the connections.....

--Jon Radel
jon at radel.com

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