# New app - Welcome loads fine but controller slow **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 6, 2007, 12:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-app-welcome-loads-fine-but-controller-slow/87850 "2007-03-06T12:00:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/draklava)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 12:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-app-welcome-loads-fine-but-controller-slow/87850/1 "2007-03-06T12:00:20Z")
I am running RoR 1.2 on Fedora 6 in VMWare. I create a new app and fire up WEBrick and connect from my windows host over a host-only VMWare interface and it connects fine. Now I create a test controller and view and connect. It takes anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple minutes to load the simple “hello” style test page. If I copy the whole directory to my windows box and run WEBbrick and connect to localhost it loads fine. I have an Apache/PHP setup on the VMWare using the same connection (to port 80 not 3000 but similar) and it works fine. Any ideas on why the “Welcome aboard” page loads fine but a simple controller would take so long to load? ---
**Author:** ![draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/draklava)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-app-welcome-loads-fine-but-controller-slow/87850/2 "2007-03-06T13:34:41Z")
Jk Jk wrote: > I have an Apache/PHP setup on the VMWare using the same connection (to > port 80 not 3000 but similar) and it works fine. > > Any ideas on why the “Welcome aboard” page loads fine but a simple > controller would take so long to load? Is your image swapping when it’s running Rails? If you reload the controller URL after the first time it finishes loading does it still take a long time to load? – Michael W. ---
**Author:** ![draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/draklava)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-app-welcome-loads-fine-but-controller-slow/87850/3 "2007-03-06T13:46:43Z")
Michael W. wrote: > Is your image swapping when it’s running Rails? If you reload the > controller URL after the first time it finishes loading does it still > take a long time to load? thanks Michael It takes a long time to load no matter how many times I refresh. I can also stop and start WEBrick and it makes no difference. Controller loads slow. ---
**Author:** ![draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/draklava)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-app-welcome-loads-fine-but-controller-slow/87850/4 "2007-03-06T13:52:05Z")
Jk Jk wrote: > I am running RoR 1.2 on Fedora 6 in VMWare. > I create a new app and fire up WEBrick and connect from my windows host > over a host-only VMWare interface and it connects fine. > > Now I create a test controller and view and connect. It takes anywhere > from 30 seconds to a couple minutes to load the simple “hello” style > test page. > > If I copy the whole directory to my windows box and run WEBbrick and > connect to localhost it loads fine. > > I have an Apache/PHP setup on the VMWare using the same connection (to > port 80 not 3000 but similar) and it works fine. > > Any ideas on why the “Welcome aboard” page loads fine but a simple > controller would take so long to load? Do you have the VMWare image set to run at high priority when it is being used? It’s recommended to set vmware images to high/low for performance (look on the setting property pages for the VM). Also, are you using MSSQL? When I tried to setup my first RoR with MSSQL, I had slow performance when using the ODBC method. I switched to using ADO for database access, and that improved performance greatly. HTH, Kevin ---
**Author:** ![draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/draklava)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-app-welcome-loads-fine-but-controller-slow/87850/5 "2007-03-06T14:07:15Z")
Kevin T. wrote: > Do you have the VMWare image set to run at high priority when it is > being used? It’s recommended to set vmware images to high/low for Hmmm - I just switched the VMWare setting “Priority-\>Input Grabbed” from normal to high and it appears to make a huge difference. I think this may have been the problem. Thanks all for your suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@draklava](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/draklava)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/new-app-welcome-loads-fine-but-controller-slow/87850/6 "2007-03-06T13:59:50Z")
Jk Jk wrote: > Michael W. wrote: > > > Is your image swapping when it’s running Rails? If you reload the > > controller URL after the first time it finishes loading does it still > > take a long time to load? > > thanks Michael > > It takes a long time to load no matter how many times I refresh. I can > also stop and start WEBrick and it makes no difference. Controller loads > slow. If you monitor the RAM and swap usage with something like “top” do you see it chewing up swap space? What’s taking up most of the CPU cycles while it’s trying to load the page through the controller? If you view the development.log file what are the controller stats you are seeing? E.g. is it spending most of its time rendering the view or accessing the DB? – Michael W.