Right thinking whites
09-04-2005, 13:59
ok here somthing, in general there are 1202 pages of threads currently, yet from about page 1075(or so) on the threads have post counts but are empty, wouldn't deating these empty threads relieve some of the strain on the servers?
Frisbeeteria
09-04-2005, 14:26
The strain on the server is not caused by the amount of material being stored, but rather the amount of material being accessed. Since a) those threads have no content and b) no one is accessing them; they are not affecting the load of the server in any way at all. They do add marginally to the storage space on the server, but all of them combined would add considerably less than just one long-running RP or episode of the Paradise Club.
Nice idea, though.
The Plutonian Empire
10-04-2005, 00:42
So there's a small possibility that all these Paradise Club threads may be a part of the problem?
Heiligkeit
10-04-2005, 03:31
So there's a small possibility that all these Paradise Club threads may be a part of the problem?
According to Fris, yes
Frisbeeteria
10-04-2005, 03:40
According to Fris, yes
No, no, no, no, no.
I only said that the big bunch of dead threads at the end were using about the same amount of storage space as ONE Paradise Club. Compare one PC thread against the biggest Spam forum threads (1300 short posts versus 100,038(!) in 100,000 Uber thread | B4 2004 (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=125307)), and you'll see how irrelevant such talk is. No, it ain't PC.
From all I've heard, the problem isn't storage space at all - it's most likely the number of database connections. It's possible that the number of threads in the database may cause an indexing problem, but I can't see why it could index 114,642 threads and 2,929,740 post in the morning, but somehow fail to index them in the evening. No, I remain convinced that it has to do with server load (bandwidth and number of simultaneous connections), not storage.