Initial request to server extremely slow after longer periods of inactivity

[opendaddy at hushmail.com]

It's probably not my DNS. From the NSD mailinglist:

> On 9. april 2015 at 6:49 PM, "Ondřej Surý" <ondrej at sury.org> wrote:
>
> if you run the daemon in any environment that is resource starved and
> the process(es) gets swapped than anything will be slow on first request
> after period of inactivity. Not just NSD and not just any DNS server,
> but anything...

I read somewhere that some people use a cron script to send a request to the webserver every so often. Is this something that everybody does but that I've somehow missed? Does it have a name?

Thanks!

O.D.

On 9. april 2015 at 11:41 AM, "Michael Schuster" <michaelsprivate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>ok ...
>
>regards
>Michael
>
>On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:39 PM, <opendaddy at hushmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> On 9. april 2015 at 5:20 AM, "Michael Schuster" 
><michaelsprivate at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >at first glance, this sounds a bit like a paging/swapping issue 
>-
>> >are other things active on that machine?
>>
>> Not really, no.
>>
>> I have 2GB memory (350MB in use) and 3GB swap (600MB in use).
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> O.D.
>>
>> >
>> >regards
>> >Michael
>> >
>> >On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:41 AM, <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.
>> >>
>> >> Has anybody ever encountered anything similar?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >>
>> >> O.D.
>> >>
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