On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:17:30AM +0000, Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > This forum is very functional.  I would participate less in a forum that requires loading up a browser to use. But then again, maybe people would be happier if I wasn't around to blab about vim and symmetry and why dub sux, so perhaps that might be for the better. :-P
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> For us on the browser pages don't always load, though.

That's a valid complaint.  It would serve us well if the Foundation can pay for dedicated hardware for the forum, instead of the current machine that seems to get overloaded every so often.

Or if the problem is software, pay for someone to fix it or replace it with something that doesn't have this problem.


T

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On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 14:14:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:17:30AM +0000, Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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>> For us on the browser pages don't always load, though.
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> That's a valid complaint.  It would serve us well if the Foundation can pay for dedicated hardware for the forum, instead of the current machine that seems to get overloaded every so often.
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> Or if the problem is software, pay for someone to fix it or replace it with something that doesn't have this problem.
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Yeah, I think the main problem is the database locks.
People discussed about the that previously.

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 03:28:12PM +0000, user1234 via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 14:14:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:17:30AM +0000, Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > > On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > [...]
> > > For us on the browser pages don't always load, though.
> > 
> > That's a valid complaint.  It would serve us well if the Foundation can pay for dedicated hardware for the forum, instead of the current machine that seems to get overloaded every so often.
> > 
> > Or if the problem is software, pay for someone to fix it or replace it with something that doesn't have this problem.
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> Yeah, I think the main problem is the database locks. People discussed about the that previously.

Yeah I vaguely remember that.

I wonder if it's worth it to split the database into an active part (for recent threads) and an archive part (for older threads that are unlikely to change). Most of the lookups will be in the smaller active part, which hopefully will be more performant, and old posts will be migrated to the archive to maintain a maximum active size.

But I could be misunderstanding the problem.


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The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left-handed people are in their right mind. -- Manoj Srivastava

On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 16:15:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> I wonder if it's worth it to split the database into an active part (for recent threads) and an archive part (for older threads that are unlikely to change). Most of the lookups will be in the smaller active part, which hopefully will be more performant, and old posts will be migrated to the archive to maintain a maximum active size.

Whatever the problem, it's reasonable to raise money to fix it. We shouldn't expect Vladimir to do all the work for something like this.