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In the last few days I've noticed that the "Flagged Posts" page has gone from loading instantly to hanging for 10-15 seconds before loading.

This is the only page on the SO site on which I am seeing this behavior. In fact, it's the only page on SO on which I have ever noticed a slowdown. As noted in the comments, I am now also seeing a slowdown on /flag-summary. Perhaps I didn't notice it before.

The server execution of the page itself appears to be the bottleneck (screenshot):

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I see this behavior in Chrome, Firefox (PC, latest) and Safari (Mac, latest). I brought up the full site on my mobile phone (iPhone 5, outside of my home wireless network) and observed similar behavior.

This is making it a little inconvenient to efficiently review posts, as I often jump back and forth between questions and the tools page. Please let me know if I can provide more detail or assist in diagnosing the problem.

24 Hour Update: I've accessed the pages in question at least 50 times since posting this to a) perform review tasks and b) confirm that the behavior is still occurring. I've also added the iPad to the list of devices on which I see similar performance.

I also tested from a virtual machine hosted in one of the larger data centers in the US. Again, most of the site is fast but /tools ("flags" tab) exhibits the same load time of roughly 10 seconds.

Note that I have tagged this as "bug" only in the interest of taxonomy; I'm hesitant to classify poor performance as a true bug, especially as it may already be known/explained.

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    I've been thinking that - but just put it down to the bandwith I'm on being used up - but now I'm certain nothing else is using it - yep, loading the flagged posts is taking a good 10secs+
    – Jon Clements
    Commented Feb 27, 2013 at 6:12
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    I got the same for users/flag-summary, so it might more related to flag in general (not only on the mod tools).
    – j0k
    Commented Feb 27, 2013 at 8:51
  • @j0k - I'm seeing sporadic sluggishness on my flag summary as well. Not sure how long that has been going on; I check the flagged queue much more often.
    – Tim M.
    Commented Feb 27, 2013 at 8:53
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    My flag summary page has been sluggish loading since Tuesday
    – Ren
    Commented Feb 28, 2013 at 9:07
  • I'm just adding a comment to confirm this is still happening... it's getting a little bit frustrating now :(
    – Jon Clements
    Commented Feb 28, 2013 at 16:28
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    Just to say, we know, we are also effected, and we are looking into it.
    – Oded StaffMod
    Commented Mar 1, 2013 at 8:51
  • @Oded - FYI, this is looking much better over the past 24 hours. Whenever you want to post an answer with an update saying that the problem is officially fixed, I'll mark it as accepted.
    – Tim M.
    Commented Mar 3, 2013 at 5:52
  • I didn't do any work on this, so can't take any credit.
    – Oded StaffMod
    Commented Mar 3, 2013 at 14:11

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I pushed some changes this morning to greatly improve this - though it is a temporary solution. Jarrod is working on a massive refactor of how flags are stored that will allow us to greatly improve efficiency on the queries (and many other things, but that's a good benefit). When those changes are in we'll do another round of tuning and get performance even better - hang on for that in the new few weeks.

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    Thanks for the fixes; temporary or not, they make the impacted areas usable again.
    – Tim M.
    Commented Mar 3, 2013 at 16:28

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