Lag appeared to be dropping rapidly a couple minutes ago. Fell form 30+ and settled around 28 and is hovering.
Is it possible the lag is caused by too many people updating their orders simultaneously?
It would need to be a hell of a spike in order changing.
I don't know what percentage of orders are short-lived, in that they are either market orders or Bid or Asks who almost immediately get filled.
I suspect most orders are short-lived - just a hunch.
Down to 25.50... and we get another big seller.
Ah, yes, I believe that's the cause right there. When a large market sell order is executed, the matching engine needs to confirm that the USD is in the account for every single bid getting filled.
As someone mentioned earlier, new hardware won't fix this (Gox is supposedly using SSD now). It's the code but at least Gox is planning on fixing this soon.