POSTS: internal system changed

[MarkG]

(If this sounds familiar please let me know )As part of our load reducing measures, we've changed our posts database structure so that posts of the forums archive are stored separately in the database.

On the user end this should not have any kind of difference in terms of just browsing into the archive. Issues might(or to be more frank, will) probably exist in the search feature(although there is an already an issue with the archive not being fully indexed for searches). You'll also notice a drop in our front forums page post counter from over 1.5 million posts to 750,000

A general increase in the speed of the site at high traffic hours(or better, less incidents of huge waiting times) should be noticed as of... yesterday.

If you experience any problems, please report them here. If you dont experience any problems, please also report this.

[DrSpike]

It's been slowing down a lot the last week or so when it get's busy......hope this works.

[Gramphos]

Not a single problem yet.

[Alex]

NP.

[H Tower]

only time poly is slow for me is around the noon hour GMT-6.


As for problems with search, it's nothing new

[Nikolai]

I can't say I've noticed a huge improvement, but I have felt that the forum has been a bit quicker today.

As for searches, I don't use them much, other than to find out what the development in the threads I've replied to is.

[Alex]

This is probably a very stupid question , but how old must a post be in order to be archived? One year? Two?

[H Tower]

just go look at the last post in an archived forum. IIRC, some forums are never archived though, for instance civ2 general has no archive forum yet it's one of the oldest forums on the board

[Frozzy]

I think it happens when the fora reach so many posts. Like Civ3 General was approaching 99,999 posts, and a whole heap got archived. CtP-Multiplaying reached 500 threads, and around 50% were archived.

[MarkG]

obviously, only the "archive forums" shown in the archive are, well, archives of the "normal forums"

http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?forumid=142

[Thrawn05]

Well, because of the local phone lines, and my busy nature, I only get to go on poly at or around 9:30pm EST (or 21:30 for you europeans ).

[mrmitchell]

Poly was reaching speeds that a dead snail could beat within the last week or so, but now it's all better.

Keep it up with the load-reducing, Markos

[Grrr]

A lot faster :b.

[Skanky Burns]

Speedy.

But then it normally is at this time. Will keep an eye on it.

Good job Markos.

[MarkG]

here's a graph of your server load during the last days