[cory_booth]

I have to re-enforce some the the posts about slow-downs when making a new thread.

I have done exhaustive research and can firmly state that while AME is a great idea, whenever it is active and a user creates a new thread (not a reply) the site takes nearly 30 seconds to refresh...

With AME simply disabled via plugin interface and all other plugins active, the refresh is only 1-2 seconds.

I haven't read through the entire AME forum yet to see if there is a solution? But I am running the latest version and I have been using it for a while. This is why it took me so long to diagnose the problem. I kept looking at plugins I installed recently, not the AME (which I had for a while)....

I do have the FULL list of AME plugins installed, not sure if that a problem oh....
And I am also noticing it more on a government network than a civilian one.

Perhaps the blocking of YouTube and the rest helps create this bottle neck?

Would this happen even on a non-AME post (i.e. text only) - I mean to be honest, I rarely need to benifits of AME as my users don't normally post video and things, but I saw this slow down when simply typing "Testing 12345678"....

When I disabled....

Gone....

Let me add that I am using VBOptimizer and XCache as well....
Oh, and I - ofcourse - enabled any AME optimizations (caching) as well...