Increasing Adwords lags

[bazza9]

Anyone else seeing increasing delays when pausing/resuming ad groups.

Depending upon the time of day (seems to be at its worst in the morning here in the UK), I'm seeing delays of up to an hour when pausing or resuming ad groups (ie I pause an ad group but still see the ads an hour later, with the Ad Diagnostic Tool also telling me the ads are still running).

Seeing this more and more frequently.

[geobals]

You can see at the bottom of the google adwords campaigns
Reporting is not real-time. Clicks and impressions received in the last 3 hours may not be included here.
There is a 24 hour delay in conversion tracking reporting.
That's the reaoson why the delays are increasing

[bazza9]

Not sure whether I made myself clear - I wasn't talking about the stats being delayed - I usually see a delay there of up to an hour.

I was talking about the displaying of ads (or switching off of ads) being delayed by increasingly large amounts of time, usually soon after 8am for up to 2 hours (which, probably not coincidentally, is when Adwords switches into a new day - presume there are some background processes running that are causing this?)

[mike_ppc]

Yes, usually this lag is smaller (a couple of minutes).

Yet AWA said many times that a lag of about an hour is normal. These days the system seems to be slower - reporting of impressions was also slower - let's hope it's just a temporary issue.