03-07-13, 04:08 PM
(03-07-13, 12:13 PM)Dead Eye link Wrote: Based on their advice they would recommend capping the thread lengths to ~1000 posts
As far as I am aware there are only a handful of threads that are actually that long. I can only think of one in the 600 forum which is red98's stuttering thread. At the end of the day, software adjustments for a web forum aren't going to help that much when the traffic isn't that high.
I find that section a bit ambiguous to my understanding. I would have thought, that post size and content would be very relevant too. If every post had an image and some web links and those pictures were in different directories and the word censor had to work on every youtube url and 30 members were browsing a different thread I could see there being a large load on the disk I/O, especially if the database sits on the same drive. Even with a 10k HDD the read and write head would be flying all over the shop. Even with db and disk caching I can see performance being an issue.
Having the avatars in a single directory could help (if it isn't done already) http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Perfo..._directory
as would having all the images in a single directory.
Obviously as I'm not an admin I can't tell if all of this is already done. I'm sure the admins have already done it (or it was probably standardised/bugfixed in a SMF release if it had that much of an impact) but without debug and logging it's hard to tell. If the ISP has moved machines to a higher spec machine (which I believe they did) then it could move the performance bottleneck somewhere else and turn it in to a sporadic or environmentally timed issue.
Not that it matters I think my 'help' isn't particularly wanted or needed so it's time to bow out
Opinions are like A**holes, Everyone has one. Some people seem to have more than one though which is a bit odd.