matthias j.

Wouldn't it be a good thing to turn the "Now browsing this forum..."-function off to the limit CPU-usage? It's not that usefull and it might just save enough CPU-power to keep the board accesible at all times.

PS: I always have troubles finding a good subjectline, please do forgive me

Loren Pechtel

I doubt that uses more than a drop in the bucket.

Writer@Large

It's been discussed, and Loren's right; turning that off wouldn't affect a thing. It's the big search function that's the real demon.

--W@L

Loren Pechtel

After all, the information about who is logged in is probably already in memory. If the bottleneck is the disk, things not on disk contribute nothing to the problem.

Bill

Exactly. The particular throughput problem we are experiencing is disk bottleneck, so anything that can be cached in memory won't affect a thing, so far as improving matters goes. Search is the big bugaboo because it accesses lots of disk records that haven't been touched in aeons and thus aren't in the cache.

== Bill