FreeNAS GUI takes a long time to display after a long time of inactivity

[KevDog]

Hopefully I'll explain things correctly here.

The FreeNas Moden GUI is accessed via a web address from a client browser.
If I haven't kept an open tab in the browser or haven't visited the GUI URL in several days, it seems to take a very long time to load the login page -- like 40-50 seconds sometimes. Once I log in -- the GUI sputters for awhile and then seems to run normal speed. I have no idea if this is due to caching of files/images but its super strange and slightly annoying. Is there anything I can do to increase the "responsiveness" of the GUI in this situation?

 

[dlavigne]

Could be a DNS or networking issue. Are you accessing by IP address or hostname? Any firewalls, proxies, or subnets in your network?

 

[KevDog]

I'm actually accessing the repository by IP address on local LAN so that kind of negates anything you need to look up. There is a firewall on the network at the router level but the firewall sits in between WAN/LAN where as I'm talking a LAN<-->LAN connection all on the same subnet with no VLAN tagging. No proxies are available. Not that it helps, but when I'm in this situation I often ping the IP address of FreeNAS to ensure it's still running and it responds right away --- I also no that's kind of stupid since the jails/VMs running on the FreeNAS host seem to be connecting via ssh at normal speed.

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to determine the cause for this?

 

[KevDog]

No I wasn't -- happened again this morning. It took nearly 1 minute using chrome to pull up login box -- I had the sharked displayed on the browser screen for nearly a minute before being presented the login box. Once logging in the gui sputtered for a few selections or so, then came up to normal "speed". I usually interact through freenas through using ssh into the jails or VMs -- and I can't say I've ever seen a problem with this approach. I'd love to provide you with more information if I could -- where would I look? I've looked in /var/log -- messages, system, debug. I even looked inside the nginx folder since I thought thought error or access logs would provide more information -- and they didn't help.

 

[KevDog]

Damn -- I've been trying to access the GUI this morning for like 2 minutes. -- no dice. Just a spinning logo on the browser. What gives? How do I restart the services? SSH access works OK. Netdata shows a lot of potential data over Ipv4. Is there some cache that is filling? RAM usage seems normal with no swap usage as reported per netdata

 

[Adrian]

I have been experiencing this, with Chrome, for a long time.
As far as I recall, opening a new browser window gives an instant login.
Also, leaving a browser window running on the FreeNAS or Truecommand dashboard will eventually result in an "Aw Snap" or occasionally "out of memory" error.
Given the absence of widespread complaints about this, I have assumed it is something to do with Chrome extensions.

 

[KevDog]

Its possible, however I believe I opened Firefox as well and the same thing happened. I'll try again today and confirm.

 

[KevDog]

No -- can confirm operates the same on Firefox and Safari. Does not seem to be a browser issue