Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Mel Smith" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Strange Delay in Page display (OT ??) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:09:25 -0700 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net /zEEk6FgedVQP/0WhyQJVwKNBnEE9oeh1wMBHMIAMtPFOfkVxfvjzDp4RvHbT4Bccz Cancel-Lock: sha1:/H/F/an/+gobrOe6y9xGzU+JbXc= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:18594 I said: > > Hi Danny: > > At the same time my page is 'served' (by my Apache Server on a PC > beside me), my CGI app also sends me (the client) an email to an AOL > account on my 'client' / development machine, and also a BCC email to > another gmail account on this same machine (which, for me, acts as a > monitor of registration actions). > > So, > > When my page is being displayed in front of me, at the same time I have > two emails being generated by the server and sent to me programmatically. > > Q: Could the near simultaneous arrival of these emails along with the > display of the page somehow *delay* the action of the 'onload' function in > some way ??? > > (btw, my development machine (and test client) is a Win XP Pro machine and > I receive emails on AOL and GMAIL) > > I guess I can test this out by bypassing my email sender, and I'll do that > tonite) Hi Danny: I just tried it -- with and without my server sending the email to the client: Result: The sending of the email 'somehow' slows down my client machine while the email software on the server is doing *something* with my client machine to slow it down ??? I'll talk with the developers and see what this is, and what I can do to prevent the email software from interfering with the operation of the client. Thank you. -Mel Smith