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| Thread ID: 45176 | 2004-05-12 22:42:00 | PressF1 problems, down time and all that Jazz - please read | Biggles (121) | Press F1 |
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| 236128 | 2004-05-13 13:47:00 | >can folks let me know how the speed is after > Mark and Jim's tinkering. Appears quicker here |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 236129 | 2004-05-13 14:30:00 | Any chance of us knowing what tinkering was done? Im curious... :-) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 236130 | 2004-05-13 23:59:00 | Appears quicker win xp pro on dailup 12 to page appearing full 20-25 seconds for full page loaded. cheers merlin a/merlin-nz ;-) |
merlin a (3926) | ||
| 236131 | 2004-05-14 02:04:00 | Oh the relief - just bunged in a couple of fresh hard drives and reinstalled everything - thought I had really screwed up somehow when no PF1 could be found yesterday. The speed is much better now, Win XP and Woosh with Firefox. Still a bit of waiting for doublecrick even though I don't view it |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 236132 | 2004-05-16 05:47:00 | Hi Chillin' Yep - we rebuilt the LDAP database that contains all the user information - can you believe it went from 2 . 2 Gb to 18Mb . . . yes . . . you read that right! For reference, OpenLDAP on RedHat uses GDBM by default rather than Berkley DB . . . which by accounts is quicker and doesn't continually increase its index sizes without reclaiming space (which is why the enormous size of our userdbs) Longer term we plan to move to OpenLDAP on berkley - but we want to redesign the LDAP schema to be more efficient (which means doing a data conversion to fit the data into the new schema) . I think it's possible - though hard to measure - that the LDAP inefficiencies are causing this forum to be slow at times . I'd also like to look at upgrading the forum to a later release of Jive - if we can afford it!! The prices have shot up as they have changed the licensing policies . I've been looking at some of the other options - for example PHPbb or VBulletin, but to be honest Jive offers functionality that is at least as good with the added advantage that it is based on Java/JSP . . . which is the technology that we're using on many of the other IDG sites . Of course there's only so much we can do at any one time with 1/2 a programmer! Perhaps what we should do is set up a real open-source forum and get some of the F1'ers to help build and mod it . . . any good Java/HSP doods and doodettes out there!!?? ;-) Mark Evans |
marke (457) | ||
| 236133 | 2004-05-16 07:22:00 | What happened to Press F1 today? (Sunday 16 of may) it was down most of the morning after noon (in till chill came on MSN & ask me if press F1 was down & I said yes) Also what type of database is Press F1 using, MySQL? Or something different? |
stu120404 (268) | ||
| 236134 | 2004-05-16 07:58:00 | > Perhaps what we should do is set up a real > open-source forum and get some of the F1'ers to help > build and mod it I'd be happy to set up a board if it was based on phpbb... and spend a number of hours each week mananging it. All I'd need is ftp access to your server space |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 236135 | 2004-05-16 08:00:00 | > > Perhaps what we should do is set up a real > > open-source forum and get some of the F1'ers to > help > > build and mod it > > I'd be happy to set up a board if it was based on > phpbb . . . Same :) |
stu120404 (268) | ||
| 236136 | 2004-05-16 08:20:00 | It would be quite a cool project actually - do it on a trial basis and we could test it alongside the existing site. Be quite fun too to customise it with the PressF1 theme | Greg S (201) | ||
| 236137 | 2004-05-16 11:12:00 | Well vBulletin is by far the best forum software that I know of, certainly one of the most popular anyway. phpBB is a nice free package, though I've seen a lot of Invision based boards popping up lately. There is also Snitz but that is an asp based board so would definitely not be where you're looking at going and it isn't as nice as the other packages out there. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
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