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September 17, 2007, 10:02 AM
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Nicholson > Ledger
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Originally Posted by Rhea
I never really cared who was viewing what thread anyhow. XD
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September 17, 2007, 10:15 AM
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If you need support i'm all up for it. I've had it happen to me a couple oftimes, sometimes i refresh andma straight back on, sometimes i have to wait ages a few hours for it to work. So ye Take off the whos viewing what.  |
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September 17, 2007, 10:33 AM
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You gotta roll with it
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Originally Posted by Belazor
First of all, it doesn't require "installing" as it's already a part of vBulletin. It's just an option that needs to be enabled.
Secondly, given that it is querying indexed fields, it's actually not that big of a performance hit. The performance hit comes when there's hundreds of users viewing the same thread, as the server has to return a larger query.
The reason for the Server Busy pages is not only the fact that the forum is capped at a load limit of 5 by default (normal server load is between 0.4 and 1.4), but because the Shoutbox, during busy hours, has to make tens, if not hundreds of queries every second.
For every single user viewing the index page, the shoutbox does 1 query per second (it may be more than one, but I know for a fact it must check the database for new shouts). This goes on for like 5 minutes, before the user is flagged Idle and doesn't see SB updates until he refreshes the main page, or posts a shout (like the infamous dot).
What's a bigger performance hit:
A relatively small query that's being ran once on thread view
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One query per second for every user on the main page for 5 minutes
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Ah well, my mistake.
Does the shoutbox not only run queries for online members though? So it can't be THAT bad can it?
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September 17, 2007, 12:10 PM
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It only runs queries for members that are either using the SB (1 query for fetching, 1 for inserting), or idling on the index.php page (but only for like 5 minutes or however long the idle timeout is).
Still, that's by FAR less queries than thread views, considering not THAT many people browse threads at the same time.
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September 17, 2007, 9:29 PM
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So then it's basically just too many n00bs and spambots on at one time?
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September 18, 2007, 1:45 AM
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Shouldn't the shoutbox logically stop fetching queries every one second if there is only a single member on the SB? I see where you're coming from, Belazor, but it doesn't make sense that the server would keep checking for messages when there's nobody else that would post them.
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September 18, 2007, 7:00 PM
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How has the site performed over the past couple of days?
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September 18, 2007, 7:06 PM
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You gotta roll with it
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It's been getting a little better to be honest, but I've had a couple of instances when the server has died on me. It's not as frequent as it was though.
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September 18, 2007, 7:07 PM
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Alot better than the older servers.
Although i don't like the advert at the top.
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September 20, 2007, 11:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyler Durden
It's been getting a little better to be honest, but I've had a couple of instances when the server has died on me. It's not as frequent as it was though.
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Really? Because last night when I was in the SB the server actually killed the SB. In the box where the SB is, it put in the normal FFF page that says "server is too busy"...so I probably could have gone to my User CP right in the SB.
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Originally Posted by Gabranth
Alot better than the older servers.
Although i don't like the advert at the top.
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It looks really tacky. Isn't there at least a way to move it to the side of the page so it doesn't take up that huge chunk at the top? |
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